Tim Rutherford-Johnson has his annual list of music-related deaths. David Diamond may be the notable American composer on the list but many others have meaning to me as well:
Lou Rawls, Derek Bailey, Donald Martino, Stephen Mosko, Link Wray, Skitch Henderson, Shirley Horn, Steve Marcus, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, R.L. Burnside, Luc Ferrari, Robert Moog, Vassar Clements, Lucky Thompson, Albert Mangelsdorff, Long John Baldry, Luther Vandross, Ruth Laredo, George Rochberg, Percy Heath, Niels-Henning Oersted Pedersen, Jack Keller, Bobby Short, Jimmy Smith, Jim Capaldi, Spencer Dryden, Danny Sugerman, Artie Shaw, and Son Seals.
Playing now, appropriately, is Taverner and the Tallis Scholars and earlier today, the John Adams orchestration of Liszt's The Black Gondola, itself a premonition of Wagner's death. Finally, in addition to his own works, Stephen Mosko recorded a wind ensemble version of A Short Ride in a Fast Machine. Indeed.
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