Browsing: hardly a season went by without at least one visit from the charismatic pianist

 André Watts, 77, a piano prodigy who received his training in Philadelphia and went on to become one of the very few Black instrumentalists with a major solo career, died July 12 in Bloomington, Ind. His death was announced by the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he had been on the faculty since 2004. He died of prostate cancer, his manager said.