Broadway actress Ann Crumb has died. The daughter of Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Crumb – who turned 90 on October 24th – Ann created the role of Rose Vibert in both the London and Broadway productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Aspects of Love” and earned a Tony nomination for her performance in the title role of “Anna Karenina.”

She was both an inspiration and advocate for her father’s late series of masterpieces, collectively known as “American Songbook,” for which the composer drew on fondly-recollected musical material from his West Virginia boyhood. Ann introduced a number of these song cycles in concert, with Orchestra 2001, and recorded them for Bridge Records, Inc.

She was a lovely person, very much involved in animal rescue and adoption. Ann Crumb was 69 years-old.

I’ll remember her today, among my musical offerings, between 4 and 6 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

http://www.playbill.com/article/ann-crumb-musical-theatre-star-of-aspects-of-love-and-anna-karenina-dies-at-69