Virus toll, week 3: these we have lost
mainThis was week 1.
And week 2
Now sadly more.
23 Metropolitan Opera violist Vincent Lionti
24 New York cross-genre musician Cristina Monet Zilkha
25 London cellist Martin Loveday
26 Kurt Weill producer Hal Willner
27 Songwriter John Prine
28 Phyllis Jenness, founder of the Lexington Singers.
29 Composer Dmitri Smirnov
The Russian-born, British composer Dmitry Smirnov has also passed away due to Covid-19.
What about Dmitri Smirnov, passed away from coronovirus yesterday I believe.
Dimitri Smirnov
Composer Dmitri Smirnov, 71 (married to fellow composer Elena Firsova)
Dmitri Smirnov passed on the 9th
Norman, I realize that it’s your intent to do this as a tribute to these fine artists — a very admirable thing, to be sure — but somehow giving us a week-by-week running tally of deaths with a numbering system seems a bit macabre. I mean you no disrespect but I write this as a resident of New York State, which you may be aware is the “epicenter” of the virus in America. We’re dealing with more than seven hundred deaths every single day. Stay healthy.
Chag Sameach to you.