2014 - Year in Review; Musicians we lost

[Gurn Blanston]

I just ran across this link at NPR, there were a few I missed when they happened; maybe you did too?

Musicians we lost

[Que]

I just ran across this link at NPR, there were a few I missed when they happened; maybe you did too?

Musicians we lost

A few names that escaped my attention indeed!

Pity they couldn't spell Frans Brüggen's name properly...

Q

[North Star]

And they didn't remember to include Frank Shipway.

[Gurn Blanston]

A few names that escaped my attention indeed!

Pity they couldn't spell Frans Brüggen's name properly...

Q

Yes, I noticed that too. Seemed simple enough at the time...

[PerfectWagnerite]

What a shame, the list reads like the Hall of Fame of classical performers, especially conductors -Maazel, Brueggen, Hogwood, and Abbado in one year.

Some of the ones that struck a rather personal note:

1) I didn't know that Claude Frank passed away also, probably because he passed away on Dec 27th and I haven't been catching up. His Beethoven sonatas are the recordings that I learned from because they are used on the Great Courses series from The Teaching Company. It's really too bad.

2) Carlos Bergonzi. For whatever reason I thought he died years ago. I had to make sure this is THE Carlos Bergonzi...

3) Joseph Kerman: I used his book "Listen" in a music appreciation course. Thought it was witty and well-written. Going to miss him.

[Fagotterdämmerung]

  I am amazed Albanese was even alive... I knew of her, but I'd assumed she'd passed away long before I was born. 105, wow.

[Chris L.]

Yup, the old guard is rapidly leaving us, same thing with the film industry. Sad that even those early pioneers of the digital age are getting up there and/or are now gone (Hogwood). Has it been so long?