Richard Proulx

[mcb]

Pray Tell has a report of the sad death of the composer Richard Proulx yesterday. I especially like this quote:

Nor was he happy that the retranslation of the Catholic liturgy would render obsolete some of his work from many decades. He once said that he wished to say to those responsible for all this, “Sursum tuum.” But yet he took up the task of setting the new texts to music.

[Southern Comfort]

Another Great One, less known about in the UK, is Richard Hillert (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hillert) who coincidentally also died yesterday. They had both been ill for some time.