Peter Lloyd, principal flute of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1967 to 1987, died today in Bristol. He was 86.

From 1993, Peter was professor of flute at the Royal Northern College of Music.

UPDATE: LSO obit here.

We hear that Milan Škampa, last survivor of the eternal Smetana Quartet, has died in Prague at the age of 89.

He was a hugely sought-after viola and quartet teacher.

The results fro Genoa:

1 Kevin Zhu (US)

2 Fedor Rudin (France)

3 Stephen Kim (US)

Rudin took the audience prize.

The Echo award has been given to the rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang whose songs make pejorative reference to Jews and routinely refer to women as ‘the whores’.

A campaign is flaring up to have the award revoked.

More here.

Their song “0815” contains the line ‘My body is better defined than Auschwitz inmates’. (Mein Körper definierter als von Auschwitzinsassen)

The award was made on 12th April, International Holocaust Day of Remembrance in Israel.

The great Czech film director, makes of Amadeus, has died at 86.

After losing both parents under German occupation, he emerged as a leader of the 1960s Czech New Wave – Loves of a Blonde; The Firemen’s Ball – until leaving the country in 1968.

In Hollywood, he won Oscars for Amadeus and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Message received:

Orchestras Canada is responding with great sadness to news of the passing of the organization’s founding Executive Director, Elizabeth “Betty” Webster, C.M. Betty died at the age of 93 after a short illness, with her family close by.

Betty made an indelible impression on everyone who knew her, and was a positive force in Canadian orchestral life throughout her tenure with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra (1967-75), the Ontario Federation of Symphony Orchestras and Association of Canadian Orchestras (1975-97), and Orchestras Canada/Orchestres Canada (1997-2001).