time 8,599 Posted August 14, 2021 Composer Hugh Wood has died aged 89. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted August 15, 2021 R. Murray Schafer, a composer, writer and acoustic ecologist, has died. He was 88. Schafer died after a battle with Alzheimer's. https://www.cbc.ca/music/r-murray-schafer-composer-writer-and-acoustic-ecologist-has-died-at-88-1.5404868 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,969 Posted September 9, 2021 Classical pianist Maria-Joao Pires, 77, suffered a "rather serious" fall: https://slippedisc.com/2021/09/maria-joao-pires-is-badly-injured-in-riga/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted September 14, 2021 Robert Prizeman, composed the theme tune to Songs Of Praise, died 8 September: https://libera.org.uk/news/robert-prizeman-rip/ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0698189/ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted October 21, 2021 Report of the death of (big one) Bernard Haitink: https://www.askonasholt.com/bernard-haitink-1929-2021-announcement/ DDP Pick. (Obvs). 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted October 21, 2021 4 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Report of the death of (big one) Bernard Haitink: https://www.askonasholt.com/bernard-haitink-1929-2021-announcement/ DDP Pick. (Obvs). Oh that is a big one, he was on my long list for years and recently transferred to the shortlist after that documentary - he seemed to be going downhill quickly once he could no longer perform. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted October 21, 2021 Just now, msc said: Oh that is a big one, he was on my long list for years and recently transferred to the shortlist after that documentary - he seemed to be going downhill quickly once he could no longer perform. Well, @time gets all the points for this one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted October 21, 2021 1 minute ago, YoungWillz said: Well, @time gets all the points for this one. Yes, I was just looking and noticed that, despite him being frequently mentioned by me and Reptile in the Cmme chats and so on, neither of us actually picked the sod! In anything by looks of it. Err, well done Time! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,599 Posted October 21, 2021 31 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Well, @time gets all the points for this one. 30 minutes ago, msc said: Yes, I was just looking and noticed that, despite him being frequently mentioned by me and Reptile in the Cmme chats and so on, neither of us actually picked the sod! In anything by looks of it. Err, well done Time! WelI I was beginning to think the old sod was immortal. I've picked him every year since 2014 (except 2017 when my entry got lost in the post), and apart from a couple of years with the old Minions of Xuleneb team, always unique. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
I.R.Baboon 221 Posted October 22, 2021 He didn't look too bad 5 months ago (not brilliant either..): Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,599 Posted October 22, 2021 Bernard is hit number 6 for me in @Vaagheid's Nederlandse Dead Pool (2011 edition). 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,727 Posted November 1, 2021 Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire died at 77 years: https://www.catholictranscript.org/the-greatest-brazilian-pianist-nelson-freire-dies-at-77-culture/ He began touring in 1959, playing with major orchestras and conductors in the U.S., Israel, Japan, Europe, and Central and South America. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,717 Posted November 11, 2021 On 09/09/2021 at 13:08, gcreptile said: Classical pianist Maria-Joao Pires, 77, suffered a "rather serious" fall: https://slippedisc.com/2021/09/maria-joao-pires-is-badly-injured-in-riga/ https://slippedisc.com/2021/11/maria-joao-pires-bounces-back/ Maria Joao Pires returning to the stage this week. Looks a bit frail Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,587 Posted November 23, 2021 On 17/02/2019 at 17:13, msc said: It's been a while since there was a stupidly long list of aging folk. So here is an extended version of that music one, up to 1958, as musicians keep dying in their 60s of late. All genres, put here after Admin Advice. Every single name will QO as and when, and I expect a good... 50% at least to be deadpool fodder within the next 5 years or so. (It ain't an all-encompassing list because duh, that'd be 20, 000 odd names!) *snip* - 1937: Frank Ifield, Shirley Bassey, Gordon Crosse, Philip Glass, Don Everly, Dick Dale, Garth Hudson (Band), Tom Paxton, Noel Stookey, Art Neville, Paolo Conte, Irmin Schmidt *snip* English composer Gordon Crosse (wiki) dead just short of his 84th birthday. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DoffinCodger 13 Posted November 24, 2021 Roger Norrington (87), retired somewhat suddenly last week having overcome cancer many years ago. No word of why but not many conductors “retire”, without good reason to not appear on the podium… could be a 2022 shout? Haitink went about 2 years after his final concert, but looked in MUCH better condition than Sir Roger… https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/19/roger-norrington-musical-revolutionary-bows-out-sage-gateshead-royal-northern-sinfonia Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slackhurst Broadcasting 374 Posted December 1, 2021 Alvin Lucier, composer of I Am Sitting In A Room, is now lying in a coffin, or will be shortly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted February 2, 2022 Jon Appleton, composer and Synclavier innovator, died on Sunday, according to his son. Appleton is uniquely rooted both in shaping music both in instruments and composition. As a composer, he produced seminal works in essentially every decade of his life, helped make the program at Dartmouth a global center in electronic music (with a side trip to work at Sweden’s EMS), and went on to make Dartmouth a center again with electro-acoustic grad program. On the side of instruments, his influence with the Synclavier is tough to overstate. (Even Ableton founders Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke have pointed to the role of the Synclavier as a major source of inspiration for Live, which might not be immediately obvious.). The Synclavier was an architectural and design marvel. It was built on a real-time CPU and analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion, all produced as bespoke internal design projects. It helped popularize sampling, and was a terrific FM instrument to boot. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted February 2, 2022 Lordy - no one posts here for ages, and I find two back-to-back. Wieslaw Rekucki, a Polish violist who maintained an impressive teaching career in Spain, has died following a heart attack on 30 January 2022. He was 64. Born in 1957, Rekucki began his musical studies in his native town of Lublin, furthering his studies in Warsaw. He enjoyed a prolific orchestral viola career as principal viola of the Polish Radio Orchestra and Teatro San Carlo orchestra in Naples, before settling in Oviedo in the north of Spain in 1985, where he was principal viola of the Asturias Symphony Orchestra. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ObakeFilter 898 Posted February 6, 2022 Grammy and Pulitzer award winning composer George Crumb (1929-2022) passed away on February 6, 2022, at age 92, at his Media, PA home. https://avantmusicnews.com/2022/02/06/rip-george-crumb/ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,220 Posted February 6, 2022 3 minutes ago, ObakeFilter said: Grammy and Pulitzer award winning composer George Crumb (1929-2022) passed away on February 6, 2022, at age 92, at his Media, PA home. https://avantmusicnews.com/2022/02/06/rip-george-crumb/ Previous DDP pick I’m pretty sure. Unpicked this year though 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,964 Posted February 6, 2022 First picked by Reptile's classical theme in 2019. Unpicked since. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,587 Posted February 13, 2022 William Kraft (wiki), American composer and conductor, dead at 98 according to Facebook posts here and here. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted March 20, 2022 Lyell Cresswell, a highly regarder composer who has been working on his craft since 1985, has died. He was 77. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/463665/highly-regarded-composer-lyell-cresswell-dead-at-age-77 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Scottish Evangelist 15 Posted March 25, 2022 Scottish composer John McLeod has died at 88 years old. https://slippedisc.com/2022/03/sadness-a-fine-scots-composer-has-died/ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,969 Posted March 29, 2022 The joker of my DDP C-team, Detroit Symphony Orchestra longtime CEO Anne Parsons has died: https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-detroit-leonard-slatkin-ab9a8f4f6488ffbe8401e90bcd3c56c2 Shooting for that yahoo obit, but the APnews article makes me think, a Daily Mail obit is also possible. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
