gcreptile 10,896 Posted August 8 Philipp Glass is spending the summer in Nova Scotia, still looking robust: https://slippedisc.com/2024/08/composers-in-summer-1-philip-glass/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,896 Posted August 27 British composer and longtime music teacher at Cambridge Alexander Goehr, dead at 92: https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/27/alexander-goehr-death-composer-whose-influence-on-20th-century-british-music-cannot-be-underestimated 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
I.R.Baboon 221 Posted September 10 On 01/12/2023 at 09:50, gcreptile said: Blomstedt has had to cancel a concert for health reasons: https://theviolinchannel.com/herbert-blomstedt-withdraws-from-bamberger-symphoniker-appearances-citing-ill-health/ Just looked up how he was doing, but he has concerts planned until june next year. Here you can see him enjoying an aubade for his 97th birthday. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
polar duck 768 Posted September 10 On 23/01/2023 at 06:38, I.R.Baboon said: Surprised nobody has mentioned Herbert Blomstedt (95) before here, the oldest (professional) conductor still performing. That title actually belongs to Cao Peng (1925). 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chel 376 Posted September 29 Great composer of Kazakhstan: Adil Bestybayev died at the age of 65 Particularly famous works include Voice of Asia, the symphony Idee Fixe, the symphony Sopcert on the monogram B.Es.T, Great Moghul, and the symphony Idee Fixe. His latest major works are the ballet "Baiterek" (premiere - December 2010, Astana), symphony "Sacrifice of Tengri" (Almaty, Astana, 2009). almaty.tv, orda.kz https://youtu.be/Pz89uyNhc9s?si=Fq5_sRyMGtDaGeiT Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HDS 232 Posted October 3 Adam Abeshouse, 3 time Grammy Winner, enjoys a final concert in his honor. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,896 Posted October 7 Michael Tilson Thomas receives a lifetime achievement award and doesn't even look all that bad as he turns 80, well, in two months: https://www.instagram.com/p/DApBRY5o2Hj/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Planetist 122 Posted October 9 On 03/03/2024 at 20:18, arghton said: The great Leif Segerstam says he has been wheelchairbound since a bad bout of covid last year: https://www.is.fi/viihde/art-2000010267597.html Segerstam says that music is his nourishment. Otherwise, not much happens during the day, everyday life mostly consists of watching TV. In the interview, Segerstam was asked what he does. - I breathe and sleep and eat and piss and shit. And if I take SPAM, then something else, Segerstam tells HS. Edit: Spam meaning the sexual dysfunction medicine. He was one of the three Finnish maestros I mentioned almost three years ago - the others, Kaj Chydenius and Jorma Panula are still alive too. Panula is still working at 93, Chydenius has unfortunately been very quiet in recent years and if he died tomorrow it would not suprise me at all. Leif Segerstam dead at 80. "After a short illness". 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,896 Posted October 9 Ah sad, I wanted to get a hit with him.... a somewhat big character. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JQW 274 Posted October 9 He composed a high number of symphonies - over 370 at the last count - of which only around a dozen have been recorded so far. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,896 Posted October 10 On 03/10/2024 at 05:30, HDS said: Adam Abeshouse, 3 time Grammy Winner, enjoys a final concert in his honor. Abeshouse is dead now: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/10/nx-s1-5140160/adam-abeshouse-dead 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,538 Posted October 18 Avro Part's 2024 includes receiving another major honour - Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society. He showed up in September - a few days after turning 89 - to receive it. The man is as quiet and devout as his music, but he's also obitable as fuck! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,231 Posted October 18 American boogie woogie pianist Bob Seeley (Wiki) reported dead at 96 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
