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Martinho Lutero Galati, conductor
26Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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.
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Paul Goma, writer
26Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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...
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Detto Mariano, music publisher
26Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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.
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Angelo Moreschi
26Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

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 ...
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Kious Kelly, ER Nurse
25Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, United States

Kious Kelly, ER Nurse

Kious Kelly – an ER Nurse, Mount Sinai West, New York City – passed away on 24 March, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Kelly was 48 years old. Kelly's sister, Marya Patrice Sherron, told that her brother had asthma but was otherwise well. "You were the best big brother a sister could ask for," she wrote in a Facebook post. Source:  msn Please help us in adding details.
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