Dr. Allen Whear, a noted Baroque cellist and educator who was the artistic director of Baltimore’s Pro Musica Rara and chamber recital director of California’s Carmel Bach Festival, died Feb. 10 of cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
Dr. Allen Whear, a noted Baroque cellist and educator who was the artistic director of Baltimore’s Pro Musica Rara and chamber recital director of California’s Carmel Bach Festival, died Feb. 10 of cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
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Yuval Waldman, Bridge-Building Violinist, Is Dead at 74
A conductor as well as a skilled soloist, he liked to spotlight music composed in times of oppression, including the Holocaust.
The violinist and conductor Yuval Waldman in 1977. Performing the music of composers who had been persecuted for their beliefs, he once said, was “not just a privilege but a calling.”Credit.Tyrone Dukes/The New York Times
Published Feb. 27, 2021Updated March 1, 2021
Yuval Waldman, an accomplished violinist and conductor with particular interests in building musical bridges between countries and rediscovering neglected works composed under oppressive circumstances, died on Feb. 1 in Brooklyn. He was 74.