Minimalists (and other classical composers/musicians)

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Philipp Glass is spending the summer in Nova Scotia, still looking robust:

https://slippedisc.com/2024/08/composers-in-summer-1-philip-glass/

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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

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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.

 

 

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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).

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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

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Adam Abeshouse, 3 time Grammy Winner, enjoys a final concert in his honor.

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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/

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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".

[gcreptile 11,305]

Ah sad, I wanted to get a hit with him.... a somewhat big character.

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He composed a high number of symphonies - over 370 at the last count - of which only around a dozen have been recorded so far.

[gcreptile 11,305]

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

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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!

 

 

[Gisooo 3,616]

American boogie woogie pianist Bob Seeley (Wiki) reported dead at 96

 

[Thatcher 2,699]

American composer George Wilkins has died aged 90. Surprised the guy was not a recognised Disney Legend - if you have ever been to Disney World, particularly Epcot, his work is everywhere. 

[Ulitzer95 13,058]

Karl Kohn (wiki) Austrian-born American composer and teacher, reportedly dead at 98.

FB tribute.

[Gisooo 3,616]

On 19/11/2024 at 17:28, Ulitzer95 said:

Karl Kohn (wiki) Austrian-born American composer and teacher, reportedly dead at 98.

FB tribute.

 

https://www.pomona.edu/news/2024/11/21-memoriam-karl-kohn-emeritus-professor-and-composer-residence

[Ulitzer95 13,058]

19 minutes ago, Gisooo said:

 

https://www.pomona.edu/news/2024/11/21-memoriam-karl-kohn-emeritus-professor-and-composer-residence

Thank you.

[maryportfuncity 10,757]

Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio a few weeks back - well, either that or Simon and Garfunkel's homeless twin brothers!

 

[En Passant 3,772]

5 hours ago, maryportfuncity said:

Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio

 

Jointly responsible for this. Absolute class in my view.

 

 

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4 hours ago, En Passant said:

 

Jointly responsible for this. Absolute class in my view.

 

 

 

 

Aye, a timely reminder that the film director turns 85 next year, looks like shit and remains a shoo-in for liberal leaning broadsheet obits

 

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On 07/10/2024 at 21:04, gcreptile said:

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/

 

Lifetime achievement award on the cover of  ‘Gramophone Awards 2024’ with a four page article covering his career.  I found a copy of the magazine.  

No useful information.  States his diagnosis in July 2021 and how he’s here three years later ‘in defiance of medical expectations’.  It mentions his January 2024 San Francisco dates and at the time the article was written, his expected September New York opening season concerts.  

He did make this engagement (New York Classical Review) and gave this picture.

 

The bloated abdomen suggests ascites, fluid build up, which can be caused by cancer or heart failure (unlikely as he’s well spoken with no shortness of breath in the quoted link, but can’t see his torso).  He’s had this bigger frame since at least his San Francisco dates in January.

 

Only other worthy information was his 'bout of confusion' during the May 2024 performance with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican.

He was in Houston in November and he has 2025 dates planned – Los Angeles in February and Miami in March. 

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Classical pianist, conductor and child prodigy João Carlos Martins hospitalised for gallbladder surgery.

The article mentions he has had 30 previous surgeries, although most of them have been hand surgeries there have been a few hip and brain surgeries too. If you search around you'll find he's also had surgeries for benign tumors since he was 5. 

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Tom Johnson, minimalist composer and music critic in the Village Voice, has passed away on the last day of last year aged 85.

 

https://slippedisc.com/2024/12/an-american-composer-died-on-the-last-day-of-2024/

[gcreptile 11,305]

Colin Tilney, english harpsichordist, has died at 91:

https://theviolinchannel.com/english-harpsichordist-colin-tilney-has-died-aged-91/

 

Former DDP pick, on my classical music theme team.

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53 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

Colin Tilney, english harpsichordist, has died at 91:

https://theviolinchannel.com/english-harpsichordist-colin-tilney-has-died-aged-91/

 

Former DDP pick, on my classical music theme team.

Got a QO courtesy of The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2025/01/02/colin-tilney-harpsichord-obituary/