Virus toll, week 4: These we have lost
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30 Pianist Thom Carr, 67
31 Somali musician Ahmed Ismail Hussein, known as Hudeide, 91.
32 Irish musician, Fran O’Dwyer, 63
33 Abbado organiser Stelio Vinanti
34 Tour organiser Robert Avery
35 Alto sax Lee Konitz
36 US soprano Arlene Saunders
37 Harpsichord pioneer James Weaver
38 French chansonnier Christophe
39 Winchester Cathedral singer Tim Pride
40 David Bowie guitarist Matthew Seligman
41 Jazz musician Giuseppi Logan
42 Nigerian composer Akin Euba
From the headline, I thought, you lost 30 pianists and 6731 Somali musician…
on April 20 Baldo Podic, croation/swiss conductor, who had been conducting a large number of opera performances at many different european opera companies (among others: Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg,Bavarian State Opera, Oper Baseletc.) died of covid19 in Lugano,Switzerland at the age of 78.