Necrology Index

This document is an extract from the Gaylord Music Library Necrology File, http://library.wustl.edu/units/music/necro/index.html. The persons noted below are largely those listed in the dictionaries and encyclopedias cited following the double bar («). Note that variant information is given following the initial report of death without any attempt to resolve the conflict; this applies to the 2000 portion as well as to the 1999 supplement.

I would like to acknowledge the contributions of my colleagues at Gaylord Music Library, Dan Pickett, Mark Scharff and Brad Short, without whose assistance this publication would not have been possible.

Corrections or contributions to the necrology may be addressed to the editor: Paul Hahn, Gaylord Music Library, Washington University, Campus Box 1061, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 or by email: manynote@library.wustl.edu.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias Cited

Baker	Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (8th ed., 1992)
EPM3	The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (3d ed., 1998)
Grove	The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980)
GroveAmer	The New Grove Dictionary of American Music (1986)
GroveJazz	The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (1988)
GroveOpera	The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992)
GroveWomen	The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (1994)
IWWM	International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory (16th ed., 1998/99)
IWWM-Pop	International Who's Who in Music--Popular Music (2d ed., 1998/99)

2000 Necrology

Abney, Don, American pianist, d. 1/27/ 2000 at 76 in Los Angeles, CA. Cadence, v. 26 no. 3, Mar. 2000. || GroveJazz

Adderly, Nat, American jazz artist and writer, d. 1/4/2000 at 68. Donald Resor (ammond@theatreorgans.com), 1/4/2000. d. 1/2/2000 in Lakeland, FL. Rolling Stone, no. 834, 2/17/2000. Trumpeter and cornetist, b. Nathaniel Adderley, 11/25/1931. Jazz Journal International, v. 53 no. 3, Mar. 2000. Composer. Down Beat, v. 67 no. 4, Apr. 2000. || EPM3, GroveJazz

Allen, Steve [Stephen Valentine Patrick William], American songwriter, jazz pianist, and polymath entertainer, d. 10/30/2000 in Encino, CA at 78; b. 12/26/1921. Ain't It Cool News, www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=7329. || EPM3, GroveAmer, GroveJazz

Applebaum, Louis, Canadian composer, d. 4/20/2000 at 82. Lisa Emberson (ble@nlo.nlc-bnc.ca), 4/27/2000. || Baker, Grove

Archer, Violet, Canadian composer and teacher, d. 2/21/2000 at 86 in Ottawa, ON; b. Violetta Balestreri, 4/24/1913. CANOE (Canada Online Explorer), 2/23/2000. Ottawa Citizen, 2/23/2000. || Baker, Grove, GroveWomen, IWWM

Austin, William W., American musicologist, organist, pianist and harpsichordist, d. 3/15/2000 in Ithaca, NY at 80; b. 1920. James Webster via Robert Judd (rjudd@sas.upenn.edu), 3/16/2000. Posted to MLA-L, 3/29/2000. AMS Newsletter, v. 30 no. 2, August 2000. || Baker, Grove, GroveAmer

Azuma, Atsuko, Japanese soprano, d. at 63 in Tokyo. Orchester, v. 48 no. 3, 2000. || GroveOpera, IWWM

Beneke, Gordon (Tex), American singer, saxophonist, big-band leader and sometime Glenn Miller successor, d. 5/30/2000 at 86 in Costa Mesa, CA. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 5/31/2000. Cadence, v. 26 no. 7, July 2000. || Baker, EPM3, GroveJazz

Bentzon, Niels Viggo, Danish composer and pianist, d. 4/25/2000 at 80; b. 8/24/ 1919. Ole Hansen (oh@ewh.dk), 4/26/ 2000. Musical Times, Summer 2000. Gramophone, v. 78 no. 929, July 2000. || Baker, Grove, GroveOpera, IWWM

Berendt, Joachim-Ernst, German music writer and producer, d. 2/4/2000 at 77 in Hamburg. Cadence, v. 26 no. 3, Mar. 2000. || GroveJazz

Borg, Kim, Finnish bass-baritone, d. 4/28 /2000 at 80 in Copenhagen, DK; b. 8/7/ 1919. Opera, v. 51 no. 7, July 2000. Gramophone, v. 78 no. 929, July 2000. || Baker, Grove, GroveOpera, IWWM

Boydell, Brian, British musicologist, d. Manchester Guardian, 11/17/2000, posted to RMA-LIST by Geoffrey Chew, forwarded to MLA-L. || Baker, Grove, IWWM

Burns, Bob, reed player, d. 7/9/2000 at 77 in Sarnia, Ontario. Cadence, v. 26 no...