Robert Bernat, 63, a university administrator and professor who founded the River City Brass Band in 1981, died Saturday of cancer in Pittsburgh. He taught, conducted and held administrative posts at Bethany College, Brandeis University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Ohio State University and the University of Pittsburgh. His compositions include "In Memoriam: John F. Kennedy," commissioned for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the brass band fantasy, "Dunlap's Creek."
Arthur Frank Shore, 70, part of an international team that rescued ancient Egyptian archaeological treasures threatened
by the rising waters of the Aswan dam in the 1960s, died Nov. 27 in London.
Al Levitt, 62, a jazz drummer who performed with Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Lionel Hampton, Stan Getz and other musicians, died Nov. 28 of a cerebral hemorrhage in Paris where he was based for the last 20 years.