These we have lost in 2018
mainIt has been a year of sad and sudden departures, many of them far too young:
Composers:
Noam Sheriff
Oliver Knussen
Dieter Schnebel
Glen Roven
Martin Dalby
Milko Kelemen
Bo Nilsson
Conductors:
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Enoch zu Guttenberg
Jesús López Cobos
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Harold Farberman
Edward Simons, 101
Violinists, violists:
Wanda Wilkomirska
Levine Andrade
Anshel Brusilow
Herman Krebbers
Michael Tree
Didier Lockwood
Nina Beilina
cellists:
Philip De Groote
Jean Grout
Nelson Cooke
pianists:
Ivan Davis
Lívia Rév, 101
Singers:
Montserrate Caballe
Claudio Desderi
Maxim Mikhailov
Sylvia Geszty
Carlo Cava
Teo Maiste
Music biz:
Charles Hamlen
Lee Lamont
Robert Rattray
Olimpia Gineri
Also the Russian soprano Valentina Levko!
Didn’t see Caballe mentioned among the singers!
Not only is she listed first “among the singers”, but an extra letter is even added to her first name, evidently out of respect.
Please read again, Caballe
is the first on the list
Also, Gianfranco Cecchele
Robert Rattray
Amongst composers, also the wonderful Alan Charlton, as you reported a few months back.
Let’s not forget pianist Igor Zhukov.
Richard Hundley among composers
And yet the musical death that will resonate the most this year is probably that of Aretha Franklin.
Still a few days to go, though. On my calendar, 2018 ends on 31 December, at midnight.
Caballé is the first one mentioned…
Maestro Claudio Scimone???
No mention of George Walker.
Ave atque vale Richard Gill OA, Australian conductor and music educator…
Also the wonderful French tenor and character role actor Michel Sénéchal on April 1, age 91
Other important names in the classical and opera world that left us in this 2018: José Antonio Abreu, Huguette Tourangeau, Sergio Segalini, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Hubert Delamboye, Tito Capobianco, Audrey Stottler… to name only a few.