Peter Bloom [SEP] educated at
Peter Bloom
Peter Bloom is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He obtained his BA in music at Swarthmore College, his Ph.D. in musicology at the University of Pennsylvania, and studied the oboe with John de Lancie at the Curtis Institute of Music. 
Professor Bloom has been at Smith College since 1970. He specializes in European composers of the 19th century and has published on Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, and Claude Debussy, but he is best known for
Brett Goldin
Brett Goldin (21 October 1977 – 16 April 2006) was a South African actor and part of the Crazy Monkey comedy troupe. Goldin was murdered in Cape Town in 2006 alongside a friend Richard Bloom, a fashion designer who was a label manager for the Maze clothing company in Cape Town.
Early life.
Goldin was the son of Peter and Denise Goldin and had one sibling, his sister Samantha.
He was educated at the King David School in Victory Park, Johannesburg and at Crawford College