Minimalists (and other classical composers/musicians)

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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has died at 81. http://www.classical-music.com/news/sir-peter-maxwell-davies-dies-aged-81

 

 

A big one for The Living End, as none of the others at the top had him.

[YoungWillz 21,251]

 

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has died at 81. http://www.classical-music.com/news/sir-peter-maxwell-davies-dies-aged-81

 

 

A big one for The Living End, as none of the others at the top had him.

 

 

Telegraph has it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12193493/Sir-Peter-Maxwell-Davies-dies-aged-81.html

[Toast 16,244]

Any chance he died yesterday, I wonder - for the bonus ....

[YoungWillz 21,251]

Any chance he died yesterday, I wonder - for the bonus ....

 

According to this he died today, but hey, it'll be confirmed in a formal obit....http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/composer-sir-peter-maxwell-davies-dies-at-81-11364046037453

[gcreptile 11,093]

Sixth hit for my B-Team, and now I'm going to quit mentioning that Mother Angelica can't be far behind, because I thought she'd die in January, but she has now survived a third of that team.

 

My third hit with a classical musician this year. It's not a very exciting field, but very obitable and full of old people.

[Spade_Cooley 9,638]

Noticing a big increase in tangential Mother Angelica chat on social media recently, possibly a sign that death is very very very close and various religious writers are getting their stories ready?

[Death Impends 8,053]

Sixth hit for my B-Team, and now I'm going to quit mentioning that Mother Angelica can't be far behind, because I thought she'd die in January, but she has now survived a third of that team.

 

My third hit with a classical musician this year. It's not a very exciting field, but very obitable and full of old people.

 

You sure? I checked your team and don't see SPMD listed.

[gcreptile 11,093]

 

Sixth hit for my B-Team, and now I'm going to quit mentioning that Mother Angelica can't be far behind, because I thought she'd die in January, but she has now survived a third of that team.

 

My third hit with a classical musician this year. It's not a very exciting field, but very obitable and full of old people.

 

You sure? I checked your team and don't see SPMD listed.

 

Ha, you're right! Now I recall, he was the first replacement! Damn, I was so sure I picked him. Much like I tend to forget that King Bhumibol was first replacement for my main team.

[Sir Creep 7,072]

 

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has died at 81. http://www.classical-music.com/news/sir-peter-maxwell-davies-dies-aged-81

 

 

A big one for The Living End, as none of the others at the top had him.

 

Aye but he's in my Shadow list--and therefore a 'hit' in Shaun's game--AND on my team in the DP I run.

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[gcreptile 11,093]

Alan Loveday, violin "legend", dead at 88:

 

http://slippedisc.com/2016/04/a-violin-legend-has-died/

[YoungWillz 21,251]

 

The 'big four' minimalist composers are all edging towards their mid-70s. I wonder who'll be the first to reach the end of the drone?

 

LaMonte Young

 

Terry Riley

 

Steve Reich (in the afternoon)

 

Philip Glass

 

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I feel sure this can be turned into another of my posted-in-once-in-a-blue-moon backwater threads, maybe as a home for all things classical and avant-garde, just for Twelvetrees, NAP and myself.

 

One or two other interesting names to throw out there:

 

Pierre Boulez, angry young man of serialism (now old).

 

Milton Babbitt, even older serialist and theorist.

 

Estonia's finest, Arvo Pärt.

 

A most excellent suggestion. Glass, Reich, Part and Boulez are all doing well at the moment, but there are others of similar vintage;

 

We all know about Elliott Carter, who made a sprightly century last December, but

Henri Dutilleux is 93

John Gardner is 92

Gyorgy Kurtag is 83

Hans Werner Henze is 82, as is John Joubert

Einojuhani Rautavaara is 81

Peter Sculthorpe is 80

 

All, save for Gardner, are still working. There are others, but It'd just get boring

 

However, MiB, Carl Andre - he of the bricks - is a mere 73

 

 

Rautavaara dead at 87: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3712368/Finnish-composer-Einojuhani-Rautavaara-dead-age-87.html

[YoungWillz 21,251]

Ryuichi Sakamoto is "in great shape" after his cancer treatment:

 

http://pitchfork.com/news/60643-ryuichi-sakamoto-in-great-shape-following-cancer-treatment/

 

Here's an update on Sakamoto and how shaken he was by Bowie's death: http://www.japantoday.com/category/arts-culture/view/composer-sakamoto-dreams-of-a-masterpiece-before-i-die

 

Notwithstanding, I've already noted he had a top 30 UK hit with David Sylvian in 1982, so he might get squeezed into my theme team in around 18 months.

[gcreptile 11,093]

Kendall Betts, "formidable US horn player" dead from lung cancer at 68:

 

http://slippedisc.com/2016/08/formidable-us-principal-horn-has-died-aged-68/

 

And while you're on that site, Brazilian composer Sergio Robero De Oliveira has pancreatic cancer:

 

http://slippedisc.com/2016/08/heres-a-piece-i-composed-with-cancer-i-might-not-finish-it/

 

He is not very obitalbe, though.

[gcreptile 11,093]

Alasdair Graham, scottish pianist, dead at 82, link to Telegraph obit in that obit:

 

http://slippedisc.com/2016/08/an-elegant-british-pianist-has-died/

[YoungWillz 21,251]

Report of the death of conductor and violinist Sir Neville Marriner aged 92. https://twitter.com/LCO_orchestra/status/782528218305888256

 

gcreptile mentioned him in Ideas And Possibilities for 2016 here: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8444-ideas-and-possibilities-for-2016/?p=231114

 

Awaiting the usual confirmations and qo for the DDP.

[drol 12,157]

Report of the death of conductor and violinist Sir Neville Marriner aged 92. https://twitter.com/LCO_orchestra/status/782528218305888256

 

gcreptile mentioned him in Ideas And Possibilities for 2016 here: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8444-ideas-and-possibilities-for-2016/?p=231114

 

Awaiting the usual confirmations and qo for the DDP.

BBC has it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37535272

 

He gets Italian obits as well.

http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/musica/2016/10/02/addio-a-musicista-neville-marriner_68e44c93-6247-4ab2-a695-7147a64d7138.html

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While I was researching the "earliest-born actor" to be filmed (see Hollywood Possibilities thread), I came across this photo of Mozart's widow, Constanze. She was born in 1762, making her one of the earliest-born celebs to be photographed. She is in the front row on the far left:

 

[Sir Creep 7,072]

Barry Socher, who played in the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s first violin section for 35 years, has died. He was 68.

 

The orchestra said that the recently retired musician died Saturday after a battle with cancer. Musical director Gustavo Dudamel dedicated Sunday’s Walt Disney Concert Hall matinee to Socher.

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http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-barry-socher-20161027-story.html

[drol 12,157]

French classical composer Roland Dyens died yesterday aged 61.

http://sevilla.abc.es/andalucia/cordoba/sevi-muere-roland-dyens-clasico-festival-guitarra-cordoba-201610301641_noticia.html

[Sir Creep 7,072]

Virtuoso Hungarian pianist and conductor Zoltan Kocsis, celebrated for his thrilling and versatile technique, died on Sunday at the age of 64, his orchestra the National Philharmonic said.

Kocsis, musical director of the National Philharmonic since 1997, underwent heart surgery in 2012.

Last month he cancelled upcoming concerts on the advice of doctors, according to the National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Born in Budapest in 1952, Kocsis began performing abroad after winning the prestigious Hungarian Radio Beethoven Competition at the age of 18.

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http://m.france24.com/en/20161106-thrilling-hungarian-pianist-zoltan-kocsis-dies-aged-64

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Pauline Oliveros

One of America's most acclaimed Avant Garde Composers is dead at 84

[drol 12,157]

Pauline Oliveros

One of America's most acclaimed Avant Garde Composers is dead at 84

https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8629-the-dead-of-2016/?p=282321

[drol 12,157]

Czech composer Karel Husa died on December the 14th aged 95.

https://www.novinky.cz/kultura/423847-zemrel-skladatel-karel-husa.html

[gcreptile 11,093]

Edit: wrong.. sorry...

[gcreptile 11,093]

British tenor David Johnston dead at 85:

 

http://slippedisc.com/2016/12/death-of-an-english-tenor-85/