Richard Wolfson (25 April 1955 – 1 February 2005) was a British musician, performance artist, cameraman, and journalist.
Towering Inferno was conceived as a large-scale multimedia stage project, involving film and electronics.
Wolfson and Saunders were impressed by the Hungarian poet Endre Szkárosi,[1] and his cryptic poetry was a stimulus for their major work, the stage show and album Kaddish.
Kaddish was created over five years and is an extended reflection on the Jewish prayer of the same name, including references to the history and folklore of Central and Eastern Europe and to the Shoah (Holocaust).
The music includes adaptations of Hungarian folk-songs, some of them sung by Márta Sebestyén and Szkárosi, Jewish chant, and the sound of the shofar, along with dramatic electronic sound-effects.