July 20, 2002

Morbidity Report

R.I.P., Alan Lomax. The NYT article is pretty good; if you want a better feel for the man and his accomplishments, go to his website. It's not too much to say that he educated an entire country about its musical history. Thanks to Skarlet for pointing me to the website.

Another leading light in American music also died Thursday: Seymour Solomon and his brother started Vanguard Records fifty years ago. The company was one of the first to take advantage of new LP recording techniques to record symphonic works, among other things. Solomon sold the company, but had since re-acquired the old classical catalog, which can be found at Omega Records.

Yousuf Karsh also died this week. His most famous photograph is probably a portrait of Winston Churchill; links to exhibits of his work can be seen here.

Posted by Linkmeister at July 20, 2002 01:38 PM
Comments

Hmmmm. Death really *does* come "in threes" don't it?

Posted by: gOdOfMiScHiEf at July 20, 2002 06:22 PM

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hee hee!

Posted by: batgrl at July 21, 2002 06:56 PM

Batty, you are in a feisty mood! Where indeed would we be?

Posted by: Linkmeister at July 21, 2002 08:23 PM