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Włodzimierz Kotoński

 

Not exactly a minimalist name, is it?

 

regards,

Hein

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British composer Ronald Senator and his wife, pianist Miriam Brickman, killed in a house fire in Yonkers. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/04/30/fatal-yonkers-fire-ronald-senator-miriam-brickman/

 

Edit: Yes, it's another Ron, though unpicked I understand.

This Ron passed me by completely - I admit I'd never heard of him and didn't pick him up during my original search for 'Rons'.

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British composer Ronald Senator and his wife, pianist Miriam Brickman, killed in a house fire in Yonkers. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/04/30/fatal-yonkers-fire-ronald-senator-miriam-brickman/

 

Edit: Yes, it's another Ron, though unpicked I understand.

This Ron passed me by completely - I admit I'd never heard of him and didn't pick him up during my original search for 'Rons'.

 

And he gets a qualifying obit....dang! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/active/11597586/Ronald-Senator-composer-obituary.html

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Violinist Peter Cropper dead at 69 after a heart attack:

 

http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/2015/06/peter-cropper-has-died-at-69/

 

He came from the very music Cropper family and was apparently some kind of classical music expert for the BBC, so a more esteemed obit may come.

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Classical composer Ernest Tomlinson has died aged 90.

 

Writer of light classical works, he also composed several pieces for accompanying the Test Card.

 

Here's his Kielder Water

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Oleg Vedernikov, Russian cellist who became principal cellist of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, and then got expelled from China after a drunken incident, is dead at 48:

 

http://slippedisc.com/2015/06/principal-cellist-expelled-by-china-has-died-aged-48/

 

Thankfully, the obit provides the video of that incident, in which he apparently insulted a chinese woman on a train. He had announced he was undergoing a difficult operation. And indeed, he did not survive.

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Oleg Vedernikov, Russian cellist who became principal cellist of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, and then got expelled from China after a drunken incident, is dead at 48:

 

http://slippedisc.com/2015/06/principal-cellist-expelled-by-china-has-died-aged-48/

 

Thankfully, the obit provides the video of that incident, in which he apparently insulted a chinese woman on a train. He had announced he was undergoing a difficult operation. And indeed, he did not survive.

Great write-up! I live this guy and obviously never heard of him. RIP

SC

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Gunther Schuller, 89.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/arts/music/gunther-schuller-composer-who-synthesized-classical-and-jazz-dies-at-89.html?_r=0

 

Gunther Schuller, a composer, conductor, author and teacher who coined the term Third Stream to describe music that drew on the forms and resources of both classical and jazz, and who was its most important composer, died on Sunday in Boston. He was 89.

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Czech pianist Ivan Moravec has died at 84:

 

 

http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/pianist-ivan-moravec-has-died?pmtx=save-x&utm_expid=32540977-5.-DEFmKXoQdmXwfDwHzJRUQ.4&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.de%2F

 

A noted interpreter of Chopin, he was included in Philips's 'Great Pianists of the 20th Century."

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