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Jacob Levin,
aged 55 years, of 1657 Dagmar Avenue, Beechview, died on Thursday of last week,
April 20th, at 6 P. M., at the Passavant Hospital. Funeral services were
held Friday afternoon at two o'clock from the Washington Street
Synagogue. [The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh) - April 28, 1911, Page 7, Transcribed by C. Anthony] |
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 8 - Nicolai Lopatnikoff, a composer and former professor of musical composition at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie-Mellon University, died yesterday [Oct. 7, 1976] after a long illness. He was 73 years old. Mr. Lopatnikoff's compositions included an opera, "Danton," four symphonies, two piano concertos, a violin concerto and several other concertos, quartets and chamber music compositions. The Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra performed the premiere of his Fourth Symphony on Jan. 21, 1972,
and his "Variations and Epilogue for Cello and Orchestra" in 1973.
Mr. Lopatnikoff's ballet, "Melting Pot," was performed last March by
the Butler Ballet of Indianapolis. Mr. Lopatnikoff was born in Estonia. He studied at the Conservatory of Petrograd and in Finland and Germany after his family moved following the Russian Revolution of 1917. He graduated as a civil engineer from the Technological College at Karlsruhe, Germany, but concentrated on music after his first compositions were favorably received at music festivals in central Europe. Mr. Lopatnikoff was a concert pianist before settling in London. He came to the United States in 1939 and taught at the Hart College of Music in Hartford, Conn., and Westchester Conservancy in White Plains, N.Y. He is survived by his widow, Sara Henderson Hay, a poet. Services will be private. [Source: New York Times, Oct. 1976, Submitted by Allen Bankson, 1/29/2011] |
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SARA HENDERSON HAY LOPATNIKOFF Sara Henderson Hay, 80, an award-winning poet and author noted for her skill at fusing the serious and humorous in her poetry, died in her sleep Tuesday at her home in Squirrel Hill. Ms. Hay, wife of the late Russian-born composer Nikolai Lopatnikoff, was born in Pittsburgh and reared in Anniston, Ala. In the early 1950s she returned to Pittsburgh, where she and her husband, a professor of musical composition at Carnegie Technical Institute, now Carnegie-Mellon University, lived on Bartlett Street. He died in 1976. Ms. Hay's first poems were published when she was 10 years old, and she went on to author six books: "Field of Honor," "This, My Letter," "The Delicate Balance," "The Stone and the Shell," "Story Hour," and "A Footing on This Earth: New and Selected Poems," published in 1966. In 1952, the Poetry Society of America awarded her its Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Award for "The Delicate Balance," and in 1960, she received the Pegasus Award for "The Stone and the Shell." A classicist, she stressed form, structure and consistency in her poetry. Her works were published in Atlantic, New Yorker, Saturday Review, Voices and Lyric magazines, and she reviewed books for Pittsburgh newspapers. Ms. Hay worked from 1935 to 1942 in the rare-book department at Charles Scribner's Sons in New York. She was named a distinguished daughter of Pennsylvania in 1963. She was a member of the board of directors of the
Women's Association of the Pittsburgh Symphony Society and was on the
board of directors of the Pittsburgh Bibliophiles Society. She was a
member of the Pittsburgh chapter of the National Society of Arts and
Letters. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Kenneth Godfrey of Orient, N.Y. Visitation will be from 7 to 9 tomorrow night at the H. Samson Funeral Home, 537 Neville St., Oakland. A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday st Homewood Cemetery. Donations can be made to the Humane Society of the U.S., the Pittsburgh Symphony or the Western Pennsylvania School for the Blind. [Source: 1987, Submitted by Allen Bankson, 1/6/2011] |
