Joseph Previte wrote

>The other pianist I was thinking of earlier, in this morbid thread, was
>Tatiana Nikolayeva.  She died in San Francisco during or shortly after a
>performance on stage of some of Shostakovich's solo works.  She suffered a
>stroke while on stage and collapsed.

Of course, on the other hand,  I think we've all seen a lot of artists
die on stage and live to tell about it.

John Bell Young