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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2016-05-16 15:52
In a way this is actually a joyful story. Jane was actually doing what she loved. If we could choose the way we finally shed our mortal coil, I would suspect this would have been hers...... and I'd like to think she did.
..................Paul Aviles
Post Edited (2016-05-16 16:08)
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Author: tucker ★2017
Date: 2016-05-16 16:54
I agree with Paul..... Thanks for sharing the story.
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2016-05-17 16:36
I'll tell you what....I definitely want to be playing right up to the end, but to collapse on stage is tough on yourself, your colleagues, the audience. Her symbiotic relationship with the Atlanta Symphony was unique, though, so maybe it's exactly what she would have wanted. RIP. An amazing career.
Eric
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2016-05-17 17:21
I've known musicians whose death during a performance would have probably gone unnoticed for several days.
Tony F.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2016-05-18 19:52
Thank you so much for sharing this story, GBK. I particularly appreciate it because I subscribe to the Washington Post -- and, oddly enough, this obituary has not appeared in the dead tree edition! Evidently the Post only published the obit online. I passed along the link to a good friend in Atlanta who knew Ms. Little (and is close friends with a close friend of hers), who also hadn't seen the obit. Thanks to you, musicians in Atlanta will see it now.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: Wes
Date: 2016-05-18 23:23
Thank you for this story. I recall playing "Fantasy for Saxophones" in a big band in a Long Beach bar a few years ago. The baritone sax player played the last held note at the end of the piece and then fell over lifeless. He went "with his boots on".
Georges Grisez, the famous clarinetist and my teacher's mentor, had a heart failure after playing the cadenza from "Rhapsody in Blue" with the National Symphony.
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