Nunc Dimittis

Richard Elvin “Rick” Fritsch, Marshall Stone, Lou Ann Smith-Stoops

Christopher Hogwood—English conductor, musicologist, and harpsichordist—died September 24 at his home in Cambridge, England. He was 73. Born in Nottingham, England, on September 10, 1941, he received piano lessons as a child and enrolled at Cambridge University, where he switched from studying Greek and Latin to music, and went on to pursue keyboard studies with such talents as Rafael Puyana, Mary Potts, and Gustav Leonhardt.

Ross Lee Finney died
on February 4 in Carmel, CA, at the age of 90. Finney had joined the faculty of
the University of Michigan in 1949 and remained there as professor of music and
composer in residence until 1974. Among his students were William Albright,
Robert Ashley, Leslie Bassett, and George Crumb. After studying with Nadia
Boulanger in Paris in the late 1920s, he taught at Smith College, Mount Holyoke
College, and the Hartt School of Music.

Dwight J. Davis, 77, died on February 7 at his residence in
the Glen Park section of Gary, Indiana. Mr. Davis had served as Minister of
Music at the former City Methodist Church of Gary, beginning in 1949 and
continuing until the church closed in 1975. He was then Organist and Choir
Director for the Ogden Dunes Community Church of Ogden Dunes, Indiana. From
1954 until his retirement in 1992, he served on the faculty at Indiana
University Northwest in Gary.