Saturday, November 1, 2008

1st November........Passed Away



1942: Hugo Distler (34) German composer

1983: Anthony van Hoboken (96) Dutch musicologist

1986: Serge Garant (57) French Canadian composer and conductor

2004: Terry Knight (61) Singer, Producer, Liner Notes, Cover Art Concept and manager of Grand Funk Railroad. He also founded and fronted The Pack (murdered, he was found stabbed to death in his apartment in Temple, Texas).

2004: Mac Dre/Andre Hicks (34) American gangsta rap artist (shot to death while returning to his hotel after a performance in Kansas City, Missouri).

2005: Skitch Henderson/Lyle Russell Cedric Henderson (87) Bandleader, founder of New York Pops Orchestra; he succeeded Toscanini as music director for NBC Television and was the original conductor of the orchestras for The Tonight Show and The Today Show ().

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