The American video artist who work was central to Peter Sellars’ and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s celebrated 2004 Tristan und Isolde, has died of Alzheimers complications aged 73.
He started out as a student of the John Cage associate, David Tudor.
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The world of period instruments is in grief at the death of Ricardo Kanji, an outstanding recorder and flute player who also conducted. He was a member of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and […]
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Dr Faustus Click here to subscribe 432 years ago this week, on May 30th 1593, a man died in mysterious circumstances. He was Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan dramatist most famous for Doctor Faustus and for his […]
