Dimitri Hvorostovsky Dead of Heart Attack
jjo...@keeper.albany.net
Robert J. announced this early this morning. Does anyone have details?
Ann Feeney
This is not to say that it couldn't be true, but I called several radio
stations (one news station, two music stations), and none of them have
gotten anything from the wire services or word-of-mouth about this. So
right now, I am heartily dubious.
Where was it announced? What was Robert J.'s source? Who is Robert J.?
(I hope that's not a dumb question...)
In article <NEWTNews.836157...@albany.net>,
<jjo...@keeper.albany.net> wrote:
>
>Robert J. announced this early this morning. Does anyone have details?
>
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Matthew B. Tepper
I certainly hope it's not true, and while we must consider it an
unconfirmed rumor, I should point out that the death from heart attach
of a non-3-tenor opera singer wouldn't get 1% of the media attention as,
say, the death of an ice skater. Or 0.01% of that accorded a football
player.
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that line." -- Oscar Levant
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HenryFogel
Ann Feeney wrote:
>
> This is not to say that it couldn't be true, but I called several radio
> stations (one news station, two music stations), and none of them have
> gotten anything from the wire services or word-of-mouth about this. So
> right now, I am heartily dubious.
>
> Where was it announced? What was Robert J.'s source? Who is Robert
> J.? (I hope that's not a dumb question...)
>
Well, I certainly join in hoping that it's wrong -- Robert J. is, I
presume, Robert J. Lertsma (spelling?), a public radio classical music
host heard nationwide on NPR and APR stations. He's pretty reliable, and
not a kook -- I doubt he would joke about something of this nature. I
have been unable to confirm this report, so let us pray.
Henry Fogel
Neilfunk
I don't know when this would supposedly have happened, but I spoke with a
friend of his this evening who received a message from him on Saturday,
June 29, saying that his wife had given birth to twins, a boy and a girl,
on Friday.
Neil Funkhouser
Matthew B. Tepper
Well, maybe this is true, and if so, let's hope everyone in the
Hvorostovsky family is alive and healthy!
Ann Feeney
A Russian folk singer with the name Dmitri Prostovsky supposedly _did_
die over the weekend, which could explain the confusion!
My other theory is that when Mr. Hvorostovsky heard that it was twins, a
spectator assumed his reaction _was_ a heart attack!
HenryFogel
> Subject: Re: Dimitri Hvorostovsky Dead of Heart Attack
>From: afe...@MCS.COM (Ann Feeney)
>A Russian folk singer with the name Dmitri Prostovsky supposedly _did_
>die over the weekend, which could explain the confusion!
Indeed, this is the source of the confusion. Dmitri Pokrovsky was a
Russian conductor and composer whose area of specialty was Russian Folk
and traditional music -- particularly Balalaikas. Here is part of an
obituary that I was sent.
-----
Dmitri Pokrovksy, died on Saturday in Moscow at the age of 52 of heart
complications. He is survived by his mother Nina Budanova of Moscow and
two
daughters; Nadia Carpenter of Boston and Svieta Pokrovsky of London.
Funeral services will be held at the Composers Union in Moscow on
Thursday. A memorial service will be planned in Boston later this month.
Mr. Pokrovsky was a leading figure in the Russian music scene. A singer,
composer and conductor, he was best known as founder and director of the
Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble. Dmitri Pokrovsky was a larger than life
personality who had a tremendous impact on those whose lives he touched
whether colleagues, students, or his thousands of fans
---------
I am certain that this was the source of the false rumor about
Hvorostovsky.
Henry Fogel
Robert Long
On 30 Jun 1996 16:07:10 -0400, henry...@aol.com (HenryFogel) wrote:
|presume, Robert J. Lertsma (spelling?), a public radio classical music
|host heard nationwide on NPR and APR stations. He's pretty reliable, and
Um... Minor correction: Lertsma's show is carried only by stations in
the northeast: Albany N.Y. area (where this thread originated) through
New England. He works out of WGBH in Boston, though he frequently
goes on the road and will be broadcasting from Serenac (Serge
Koussevitzky's estate) for the Tanglewood season.
Robert Long
I wrote:
|Um... Minor correction: Lertsma's show is carried only by stations in
Major correction: it's spelled Lurtsma.
Ruth Cross
I was privileged to perform with Pokrovsky and his ensemble here
in Houston in a Russian-American Christmas Revels performance. He
was indeed larger than life. He had a degree in balalaika, but soon
after college discovered Russian folk music and became a renegade
muicologist at a time when the Soviets strongly discouraged such
interest. He and his ensemble would perform folk music in cafes in
Moscow and end up with the KGB being called. After glasnost he
became respectable and received several awards for his efforts to
collect and preserve the Russian musical heritage.
The Pokrovsky ensemble spent considerable time in the US in recent
years -- a tour with the Paul Winter consort, several Revels shows,
and most recently performances with various US symphonies of Russian
wedding songs and Stravinsky's "Les Noces" which was based on
those songs.
The Houston Revels group is planning a service in his honor.
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Lis K. Froding
In <31d917fd...@news.taconic.net> bob...@taconic.net (Robert
Since it was authoritatively established by Henry Fogel that Dmitri
Hvorostovsky is NOT dead, I suggest we alter the header for this thread
so that the misunderstanding doesn't go any further.
Lis
Robert Long
This morning, still having heard nothing concrete, I called the
Philips classical PR person and asked. A Russian musicologist named
Dimitri somethingelse recently died of a heart attack, and may well
have been the person Robert J. mentioned in his Sunday broadcast.
Hvorostovsky, as far as Philips is aware, is still alive and singing.
Richard L. Kaye
Would you believe "Lurtsema"? Say it over slowly a few times
with pauses in between.
RLK
Richard L. Kaye
This is all very interesting. Since Robert J. is the world's
greatest authority on folk music (no kidding!), is it
possible that the original poster misunderstood him?
RLK
Kozinn
>>>>This morning, still having heard nothing concrete, I called the
Philips classical PR person and asked. A Russian musicologist named
Dimitri somethingelse recently died of a heart attack, and may well
have been the person Robert J. mentioned in his Sunday broadcast.<<<<
It was Dimitry Pokrovsky, the director of the Pokrovsky Ensemble, which
specialized in Russian folk music, dance and ritual.
Allan <kozinn@aol>