The death of Richard Patterson demonstrates how artistic contribution is truly timeless. Largely inactive in music for the last twenty years of his life, his death brings forth an outpouring of emotion and reflection by so many. A Facebook tribute page, being added to daily, and extensively. A memorial celebration being planned.
Art is timeless, and those contributing to it very much live forever.
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Postscript, April 8, 2011: Posted a picture of Richard Patterson and Harvey Glatt to the tribute page, from the day of what became the first and last visit for me.
Postscript, April 10, 2011: Many of the significant details of Richard Patterson’s history in music are now in an Ottawa Citizen profile piece by Ken Rockburn, published today.
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