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Mr. Lichtenstein, left, with Leonard Garment, president of the board of directors of BAM, and Joan Mondale, the wife of Vice President Walter F. Mondale, before a benefit performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1979.
Lennox McLendon/Associated Press; thumbnail, Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times, 1998
Harvey Lichtenstein
Died on February 11, 2017 at age 87
Mr. Lichtenstein transformed a moribund Brooklyn Academy of Music into a dynamic showcase for cutting-edge performing arts and its Fort Greene neighborhood into a cultural hub during his 32 years there as the executive producer.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.