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23rd December 2015

Obituary, 2015 Goodbyes

by James Longstaffe

2015 GoodbyesA tribute to some of the musicians who died in 2015, who enhanced our lives and gave us so much joy with their talent and artistry.

The music is an extract from Strauss's Four Last Songs, performed by Jessye Norman and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, conducted by Kurt Masur.

The full list of people included in the video is as follows:

John McCabe Alan Curtis David Willcocks Aldo Ciccolini Ben E. King Ernest Tomlinson Elena Obraztsova B. B. King Gunther Schuller Ivan Moravec John Renbourn John Scott Maria Radner Peter Katin Waldemar Kmentt Peter Cropper Ornette Coleman Robert Craft Stella Doufexis Walter Weller Ronald Stevenson Jon Vickers James Horner Kurt Masur.

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James is a conductor, répétiteur, arranger, and tuba player. His musical interests include opera, film music, late-Romantic orchestral works (especially Mahler and Richard Strauss), and twentieth-century American composers such as Copland, John Adams, and John Williams. He read Music at Christ Church, Oxford, writing his postgraduate dissertation on the music of Star Wars.

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