These we shall miss
mainA sombre German selection of major cultural and intellectual losses of 2016.
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The Times this morning has a much more comprehensive list with detailed obits. And it’s in English.
Forgot Arnold Palmer.
No Harnoncourt, no Boulez, no Toots Thielemans, no Bobby Hutcherson…
No Gisela May, no Heinrich Schiff…
No Boulez? What a disgrace! Especially because he died in Germany! The words “cultural” and “intellectual” could not have a better application than to Boulez. For that matter, Harnoncourt should have been listed as well.
Apparently, they had room for Bowie, Cohen, and Michael. Maybe Boulez wasn’t intellectual enough.