Chuck Berry died today at the age of 90.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/arts/chuck-berry-dead.html?_r=0
Tell Tchaikovsky the news.
Tag: Obituary
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Robert Osborne TCM Host Dies at 84
Robert Osborne, beloved host of Turner Classic Movies: TCM, died today at the age of 84. Check out this great profile of Osborne from 2006 in the New York Times with photos of his fabulous New York apartment (or at least one of them). Love that library!
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/realestate/21habi.html?_r=1
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Nicolai Gedda Dies at 91
Like Mark Twain, reports of his death were greatly exaggerated. In 2015, legendary Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda became the subject of a death hoax that sent panic and despair rippling through the opera-loving community. Alas, today is no hoax. Gedda has died at the age of 91. One of the most widely-recorded tenors in history, he made his final opera recording in 2003 at 77 years-old. R.I.P.
https://www.francemusique.fr/opera/nicolai-gedda-est-32119
A devil-may-care Gedda as Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini
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Heinrich Schiff Celebrated Cellist Dies at 65
I am very sorry to have to share the news that one of the great cellists of our time has passed. Heinrich Schiff is dead at 65.
I’ll include a little musical remembrance, if I can, just before my sign-off at 2:00 this afternoon, on WRTI 90.1 FM and at wrti.org
http://www.dw.com/en/cellist-heinrich-schiff-dies-age-65/a-36891728
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/the-cellist-and-conductor-heinrich-schiff-has-died
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Gene Wilder A Comic Genius Remembered
The Producers. Young Frankenstein. Willy Wonka.
So sorry to see you go, Gene. Thanks for the laughs, never without heart.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/movies/gene-wilder-dead.html?_r=0
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