Wilfrid Mellers has passed away.

[btpaul674]

http://www.therestisnoise.com/2008/05/for-wilfrid-mel.html.

Sad. I loved Vaughan Williams and the Vision of Albion.

[lukeottevanger]

Sad indeed. One of the greatest writers on music - his completely original and insightful way of thinking really influenced me more than any other single musicologist. I've been dreading this day - he seemed to have been around for such a long time (I have articles by him written in the 30s, I think). I shall put on a CD of his Opus Alchymicum now...

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Brilliant man. He'll live on.

[sound67]

For a more extended tribute, see:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3963044.ece?token=null&offset=0

Personally, I found his book on RVW a wee bit pretentious. 

But theres a great quote of his  in that obituary:

"A limitless plurality of values is indistinguishable from no values at all".

A succinct condemnation of today's "you're ok, I'm ok" society.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Thanks for the link, sound67. (Mellers married for a third time in 1987, when he must have been 73!)