Noteworthy – Page 35

27Mar

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Italy, Noteworthy

Luigi Roni, singer

Luigi Roni –an Italian singer – succumbed to coronavirus on 26 March 2020. Roni studied singing in Lucca alongside Adriana Pizzorusso. He made his singing debut at age 22 at the Spoleto Festival USA with the opera Faust, in which he played Mephistopheles. His singing partners included Montserrat Caballé, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras. He sang at multiple opera halls, including La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera House. In France, he performed alongside other opera singers at the Chorégies d'Orange and at the Paris Opera. In 2004, Roni founded the Il Serchio delle muse summer opera festival, held in the Serchio valley. Roni's final role was in April 2019, when he ...

27Mar

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Noteworthy, United States

Michael Sorkin, architect & critic

Michael David Sorkin –an American architectural and urban critic, designer, and educator – died on March 26, 2020 from Covid-19. He was considered to be "one of architecture’s most outspoken public intellectuals," a polemical voice in contemporary culture and the design of urban places at the turn of the twenty-first century. Sorkin first rose to prominence as an architectural critic for the Village Voice in New York City, a post which he held for a decade throughout the 1980s. In the ensuing years, he taught at prominent universities around the world, practiced through his eponymous firm, established a nonprofit book press, and directed the urban design program at the City College of New York. He died at age 71 due to complicatio...

27Mar

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Noteworthy, Scotland

Hamish Wilson, actor

Hamish Wilson – a Scottish actor from Glasgow – succumbed to Covid-19 on 26 March 2020. He was best known for briefly taking over the role of Jamie McCrimmon for part of two episodes in the 1968 Doctor Who serial "The Mind Robber" when series regular Frazer Hines was ill with chickenpox and unable to attend the recording. The change of actor was written in as part of the story when Jamie is turned into a cardboard cut-out and has his face removed by the Master of the Land of Fiction. The Doctor's first attempt to reconstruct his face is unsuccessful. Eventually, Jamie's real face is restored when Hines recovered. Wilson trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. At the time of his Doctor Who appearance, he was working in London for a furn...

26Mar

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Brazil, Noteworthy, Profiles

Martinho Lutero Galati, conductor

Martinho Lutero Galati de Oliveira –a Brazilian conductor – succumbed to Covid-19 on 25 March 2020. He died in São Paulo in March 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Galati wrote the book Do gesture à gestão: um diálogo sobre maestros e liderança. He was director of the Coral Paulistano do Theatro Municipal de São Paulo from 2013 to 2016. He was elected president of the Associação Brasileira de Regentes Corais in 2018. He was a professor at the Free University of Languages and Communication and at the Institute of Musicology of Milan.

26Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Romania

Paul Goma, writer

Paul Goma –a Romanian writer, known for his activities as a dissident and leading opponent of the communist regime before 1989 – died due to Covid-19 on March 25, 2020. Forced into exile by the communist authorities, he became a political refugee and resided in France as a stateless person. After 2000, Goma has expressed opinions on World War II, the Holocaust in Romania and the Jews, claims which have led to widespread allegations of antisemitism. Goma was born to a Romanian family in Mana village, Orhei County, then in the Kingdom of Romania, now part of Moldova. In March 1944, the Goma family took refuge in Sibiu, Transylvania. In August 1944, finding themselves in danger of involuntary "repatriation" to the Soviet Union, they fled to the village of Buia, by the...

26Mar

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Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Detto Mariano, music publisher

Detto Mariano –an Italian composer, arranger, lyricist, pianist, record producer and music publisher – died on 25 March 2020 after contracting Covid-19. Born Mariano Detto in Monte Urano, Mariano started his career in 1958 but was launched by entering Adriano Celentano's "Clan Celentano", becoming keyboardist in his accompanying group "I Ribelli", sporadic lyricist and official arranger of all the songs of the Clan between 1962 and 1967. He also collaborated with Lucio Battisti, Mina, Milva, Equipe 84. Later he focused on composing numerous film soundtracks, especially comedy films. On 25 March 2020, Mariano died of COVID-19 at the age of 82.

26Mar

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Angelo Moreschi

Angelo Moreschi –an Italian missionary of the Catholic Church who spent his career in Ethiopia – succumbed to Covid-19 on 25 March 2020. He was prefect apostolic of Gambella, and became vicar apostolic there when he became a bishop in 2010. Moreschi was born in Nave, Italy, on 13 June 1952. He took his first vows as a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco on 1 September 1974 and his final vows on 15 August 1980. He attended seminary in Chiari and studied theology in Bethlehem. He was ordained a priest on 2 October 1982. He spent his career in Ethiopia, where he was Provincial Councilor for the Vice-Province Africa Ethiopia-Eritrea from 1998 to 2001 and pastor in Dilla, South Ethiopia, from 1991 to 2000. On 25 November 2000, Pope John ...

26Mar

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Danilo Barozzi, cyclist

Danilo Barozzi –an Italian cyclist – died of Covid-19 on 25 March 2020. Barozzi was a professional cyclist from 1949 to 1958. He won a stage of the Volta a Catalunya in 1950 and the Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato in 1954 and 1956.

26Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Mark Blum, actor

Mark Blum–an American actor who worked in theater, film and television – died of Covid-19 on March 25, 2020. Blum found success with a lead role in the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan, which he followed up the next year with a supporting role in Crocodile Dundee. On the stage, he won an Obie Award for his role in the play Gus and Al during its 1988–1989 season. Near the end of his career, Blum had a regularly recurring role on the Amazon Prime series Mozart in the Jungle from 2014 to 2018. He also made guest appearances on dozens of shows throughout his career. Blum was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Lorraine (née Fink) and Morton Blum, who worked in the insurance industry. His family was Jewish. He grew up in Maplew...

Romi Cohn, rabbi, mohel & real estate developer

25Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Romi Cohn, rabbi, mohel & real estate developer

Romi Cohn –a Czechoslovakian-born American rabbi, mohel, and real estate developer – died after contracting coronavirus on March 24, 2020. Avraham Hakohen Cohn was born on March 10, 1929 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He was one of seven children. World War II and the Holocaust See also: The Holocaust in Slovakia During World War II, most Slovak Jews were deported to concentration camps. While Cohn's family managed to sneak him into Hungary, his mother, as well as two of his brothers and two of his sisters died in camps. In Hungary, Cohn studied in a Hasidic yeshiva until 1944 when the Nazis occupied the country. At that point, at the age of 15, he escaped back into Slovakia and joined a partisan brigade fighting the Nazis. As a ...