archived MUSICIANmilestones? first half 2007 (obits)

Tuesday, 3 April 2007

Mezzo-Soprano Mimi Lerner Dies at 61
Now Playing: PlaybillArts - New York,NY,USA
Topic: Mimi Lerner

Mezzo-soprano Mimi Lerner died on March 29, 2007 of complications from cancer, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She was 61 years old.
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Updated: Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:31 AM CDT
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Thursday, 29 March 2007

Soprano Janice Harsanyi Dies at 77
Topic: Janice Harsanyi

Soprano Janice Harsanyi, who sang on the 1960 Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra recording of Orff's Carmina Burana, died at age 77 on March 21, 2007.
See all stories on this topic | PlaybillArts - New York,NY,USA

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Updated: Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:21 PM CDT
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Thursday, 22 March 2007

Accidental death ruling on classical composer
Now Playing: Ludlow Advertiser - Ludlow,UK
Topic: Charles Dakin

A CLASSICAL composer died when a car being driven by his daughter was in an accident, an inquest was told. Charles Dakin, 76, of Norbury, UK...
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Updated: Monday, 26 March 2007 6:32 PM CDT
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007

Ernst Haefliger, 87, Swiss Tenor Famous for Lieder and Oratorios, Dies
Now Playing: LUCERNE, Switzerland (AP)
Topic: Ernst Haefliger

Ernst Haefliger, a Swiss tenor who was most renowned as an interpreter of German art song and oratorio roles, died on Saturday (17 MAR 2007) in Davos, Switzerland, where he maintained a second home. He was 87 and lived in Vienna.
NY Times obit | BIOGRAPHY | ERNST HAEFLIGER on CD

Posted by editor at 7:14 PM CDT
Updated: Monday, 26 March 2007 6:32 PM CDT
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Saturday, 17 March 2007

Charles Schiff, former director of the Charleston Symphony
Topic: Charles Schiff

Ex-symphony conductor Schiff dies
ATLANTA — Charles Schiff, former director of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, died this week in Atlanta, according to his family. He was 80. ...
See all stories on this topic | Charleston Gazette (subscription) - Charleston,WV,USA

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Updated: Sunday, 18 March 2007 7:53 PM CDT
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Monday, 12 March 2007

John Thow, 57; composer, professor of music at UC Berkeley
Now Playing: Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Topic: John Thow

John Thow, 57, a composer and music professor at UC Berkeley, died Sunday 4 MAR 2007 at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley.
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007

Topic: Julian Medforth Budden

Julian Medforth Budden, musicologist, radio producer and writer: born Hoylake, Cheshire 9 April 1924; staff, BBC Music Department 1951-83, Music Producer 1956-70, Chief Producer, Opera (Radio) 1970-76, External Services Music Organiser 1976-83; FBA 1987; OBE 1991; died Florence 28 February 2007.
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Updated: Wednesday, 28 March 2007 8:08 AM CDT
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Wednesday, 21 February 2007

SIEGFRIED LANDAU, Retired Brooklyn Philharmonic conductor, wife die in fire
Now Playing: Siegfried and Irene Landau
Topic: Siegfried Landau

The founding conductor and former music director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic and his wife died in a fire Tuesday at their home in northern New York...
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Updated: Wednesday, 21 February 2007 6:54 AM CST
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Saturday, 17 February 2007

Orchestra founder, environmentalist Gordon Wright dies
Topic: Gordon Wright

To those who learned and performed under Wright’s conductor baton, he also was an inspirational leader. “He was a very good people person and he would draw ...[see]> Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks,AK,USA

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Updated: Saturday, 17 February 2007 8:02 AM CST
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Thursday, 1 February 2007

Topic: Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti, a giant of twentieth century opera composition, whose popular works for the modern lyric stage evinced the influences of nineteenth century romanticism and Italian repertoire, has died. The composer's adopted son, Francis, announced his father's death on Thursday at Monaco's Princess Grace Hospital. Menotti was 95.
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Mezzo-soprano Mimi Lerner died on March 29, 2007 of complications from cancer, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She was 61 years old. See all stories on this topic | Mezzo-Soprano Mimi Lerner Dies at 61 | BIOGRAPHY

Soprano Janice Harsanyi, who sang on the 1960 Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra recording of Orff's Carmina Burana, died at age 77 on March 21, 2007. See all stories on this topic | PlaybillArts - New York,NY,USA

A CLASSICAL composer died when a car being driven by his daughter was in an accident, an inquest was told. Charles Dakin, 76, of Norbury, UK... See all stories on this topic | ...more

Ernst Haefliger, a Swiss tenor who was most renowned as an interpreter of German art song and oratorio roles, died on Saturday (17 MAR 2007) in Davos, Switzerland, where he maintained a second home. He was 87 and lived in Vienna. NY Times obit | BIOGRAPHY | ERNST HAEFLIGER on CD

Ex-symphony conductor Schiff dies ATLANTA — Charles Schiff, former director of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, died this week in Atlanta, according to his family. He was 80. ... See all stories on this topic | Charleston Gazette (subscription) - Charleston,WV,USA

John Thow, 57, a composer and music professor at UC Berkeley, died Sunday 4 MAR 2007 at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley. ...MORE | See all stories on this topic

The founding conductor and former music director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic and his wife died in a fire Tuesday at their home in northern New York... DETAILS | See all stories on this topic: HERE