Jerold Gerbrecht, 1935-March 25th 2023. Prominent Vancouver musician.
Established the VAM as a notable centre for music education in Canada.
Malcolm Tait,21 January 1931 -December 25 2022. Prominent Canadian cellist.
A musician for all time zones.
Lynn Seymour,CBE, 8 March 1939 – 7 March 2023. Great dramatic Ballerina.
From Wainwright,Alberta, raised in Vancouver, on to London and World fame.
Ethics Commissioner calls for mandatory ethics training for all senior Liberals.
‘When you get in trouble and don’t know right from wrong, give a little whistle.’
Operation Valentine
Milley’s People.
George Zukerman, OC. OBC. 1927- 1st. Feb.2023. The mover and shaker for classical music in BC and beyond for seventy years.
Imaginative and indefatigable Bassoonist and Impresario.
Burt Bacharach 1928- 8th February2023. The composer who struck a gold seam and mined it for six decades.
In addition to his natural gifts he was a knowledgeable orchestrator and studied with Darius Milhaud.
Fay Weldon,CBE. 1931 – 4 January 2023. Contrarian and prolific writer.
” If that was dying, I don’t want to do it again”.(f.w.)
Hot Air discourse.
“….That’s not Taiwan military exercises, that’s Yellowstone Old Faithful……”
Ken Moore,1944- January 13,2023. Vancouver Timpanist and Percussionist.
Hung, Drawn and Cultured 