KATHERINE KOLB

KATHERINE WHITESIDE KOLB  
Died November 16, 2018 at age 72 in Washington, DC. She was internationally known as a scholar of the French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz. She was a graduate of Wellesley College and received her doctorate from Yale. She taught at the University of Minnesota, at Southeastern State University in Hammond, LA, and moved to DC in 2016 with her life partner, Jay Perkins.She was a long-time member of the Berlioz Society and frequently lectured at their meetings in London and other cities. She wrote numerous articles on the compositions, criticism, and correspondence of Berlioz, edited a collection of his music criticism translated into English and co-edited a collection of essays on the French author Marcel Proust.Katherine is survived by her daughter, Anne Reeve, a curator at the Hirshhorn Museum; a brother, Richard Kolb, a classical lutenist and music historian from Beacon, NY; a sister, Jocelyne Kolb, a retired professor of German Studies at Smith College; Jay Perkins, a retired professor of journalism from Louisiana State University; and her first husband, Basil Reeve, of Minneapolis. She was preceded in death by her parents, Philip and Dorothy Kolb; and by her second husband, Richard Kozelka.The family would like to thank the doctors at George Washington University Medical Associates, particularly Dr. Jalil Ahari; the Hospice Team at Capital Caring DC, Priya Shamsundar, Deborah Ragin, and Joan Panke; and the Home Health Aides at Capital City Nurses, Amudalatu Tejan-Cole and Engonwie "Doris" Ndam.Gifts in lieu of flowers are suggested to Planned Parenthood, ACLU, Sierra Club and the American Association of University Professors.Memorial services are pending.