Just a few days ago, Dan Pavillard, an important activist and businessman in the music life of the West for the past half century, received a diagnosis of severe heart disease and the doctor's warning that he may have no more than a year to live. On Saturday, Pavillard, 69, had a heart attack in his Eugene, OR, home and died. Between the warning and his death, he had a chance to put his affairs in order, including completion of a will leaving considerable funds for musicians and, especially, the Oregon Bach Festival, which he had fervently supported for many years now. Last year, he received the (Oregon) Governor's Arts Award for his activity, which included the donation of two Steinway pianos to the festival. Starting as a journalist, photographer and music critic with the Tucson Citizen, Pavillard occupied a series of music-related executive positions, including marketing and publications director for the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles, general manager of the Tucson Symphony, executive director of the Long Beach Symphony, vice president for the California Institute for the Arts. He has also served as a lecturer on marketing and development at American Symphony Orchestra League conventions. Janos Gereben/SF [log in to unmask]