27 Jul 2010: Catherine Mackintosh writes: The death of Sir Charles Mackerras so soon after his final performance at Glyndebourne, in June, conducting Così Fan Tutte, came as a shock to the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
26 Jul 2010: Other lives: My friend and comrade for 40 years, who has died aged 91, had an amazingly diverse career as a researcher, teacher, coalminer, author and political activist
Other lives: Our mother, who has died of cancer aged 73, was a music teacher at Grey Coat school, Westminster, the Perse girls' school, Cambridge, and Homerton College, Cambridge, as well as being the musical director of Haslingfield choir and orchestra, which she founded in 1971.
Other lives: My friend and mentor, Teshome Gabriel, a leading film theorist, who has died of cardiac arrest aged 70, was an authority in the study of third world and postcolonial cinemas
Other lives: My father, Arthur Hayward, who has died aged 87, was the first headmaster of the Cavendish school – a school with no rules. The students were told to use their common sense: "If it's stupid, don't do it!"
Other lives: Given up for dead after the D-Day assault, my father, George Young, survived his wounds and became a revered English teacher in Colchester, Essex.