We have been notified of the death of Howard Crook, a lyric tenor from Rutherford, New Jersey, who became a staple of the early-music scene in Paris.
He appeared in operas by Lully, Rameau, Haydn and Mozart and recorded with such conductors as John Eliot Gardiner, Trevor Pinnock, Roger Norrington, William Christie and Marc Minkowski.
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