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Breaking news: world-renowned classical pianist Natalia Strelchenko found murdered in her home in Britain:

 

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-01/concert-pianist-natalia-strelchenko-found-dead-in-britain/6740194

 

You mean breaking as in what Guesty posted at 11:23am today?

SC

~http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8454&p=23571​

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Sir David Valentine Willcocks, former Organist and Director of Music at King's College, Cambridge, passes away at 95. http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/conductor-and-organist-sir-david-willcocks-has-died

They ain't got no X where Willcocks was born? Wth kinda surname is that besides Pre-X Aramaic?

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Sir David Valentine Willcocks, former Organist and Director of Music at King's College, Cambridge, passes away at 95. http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/conductor-and-organist-sir-david-willcocks-has-died

 

Suggested by chiesa52 as long ago as 2012 and an entrant in the 2011 DDP.

Oh, I get it! Yes, I had a feeling for quite awhile that he might be a candidate- and he made it to 95! They say that conductors live for a long time because all of that arm waving is good aerobic exercise!

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Alexander 'sandy' Faris, composer dies aged 94. Kudos to MPFC for flagging him up back in 2010! Guess no-one was keeping an eye on him!

 

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Posted 03 November 2010 - 11:17 PM
Composer Sandy Faris somewhat slurring and slow of speech on the radio tonight. Might be worth keeping an eye on. He's 90 next year.
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Seymour Lipkin, prime piano teacher of the USA, tenured at Juilliard, has died at 88:

 

http://slippedisc.com/2015/11/sad-news-americas-foremost-piano-teacher-has-died/

 

Polish conductor Jerzy Katlewicz is also dead at 88:

 

http://slippedisc.com/2015/11/goreckis-premier-conductor-has-died/

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Joseph Silverstein, a longtime violinist with the Boston Symphony, and who was also the music director of the Utah Symphony from 1983 to 1998 and a committed teacher, died of a heart attack Saturday night in Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. He was 83.

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Bernard Labadie, canadian conductor, music director of Les Violons du Roy and also currently engaged at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, survives an 18-month long battle with lymphoma "almost against all odds" and with "every complication possible".

 

http://slippedisc.com/2015/11/happy-news-maestro-returns-from-year-long-bout-with-cancer/

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Great german conductor Kurt Masur dead at 88:

 

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/19/kurt-masur-conductor-new-york-philharmonic-dies-88

 

Oh, NOW I remember the name of the conductor who was featured on the few classical CDs I bought. Ah well, was of no use for 2016 anyway...

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Pierre Boulez, the greatest (formerly) living classical musical theorist, conductor and composer, has died at 90: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35241250

Ooh, that's a big one.
If I had a dollar every time I heard that....SC
You´d have a very small fortune.

Emphasis on very small

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Re-discovered norwegian composer Leif Solberg also dead, at 101.

 

They lost a living Norwegian composer, you mean to say? :scratchhead:

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Pierre Boulez, the greatest (formerly) living classical musical theorist, conductor and composer, has died at 90:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35241250

 

Readers of Private Eye will be aware that the byline on their classical music column is "Lunchtime O'Boulez".

The latest issue carries the following letter of complaint:

 

I notice that Eye issue 1410 has plenty of coverage on the death of David Bowie, however not a word about the death of Pierre Boulez (a week before), yet you still sign off Music & Musicians as "Lunchtime O'Boulez".

Disrespectful, methinks? I may have to consider my subscription.

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Yes! Two unique hits with two conductors in two teams, Boulez and Harnoncourt. I suspect this abandoned market of classical musicians will get more crowded next year.

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