Atlanta Symphony Orchestra bassist Jane Little died Sunday at age 87 after collapsing onstage during a performance of “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” the orchestra said.
In this Feb. 4, 2016 photo provided by Dustin Thomas Chambers, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra bassist Jane Little holds a bouquet of flowers backstage after performing 71 years to the day after her first concert for a Guinness World Record in Atlanta. Little died at age 87 after collapsing onstage during a performance Sunday, May 15, 2016, of "There's No Business Like Show Business," the orchestra said. She was briefly revived before dying at an Atlanta hospital. The bassist was recognized by Guinness World Records for the longest professional tenure with a single orchestra. (Courtesy of Dustin Thomas Chambers)
In this Nov. 15, 2007 photo, Jane Little, an Atlanta Symphony Orchestra bassist, poses for a photo in Atlanta. Little, whose career spanned a world-record with a single orchestra, has died at age 87 after collapsing onstage Sunday, May 15, 2016, during a performance. (Louie Favorite/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT
In this Nov. 15, 2007 photo, Jane Little, an Atlanta Symphony Orchestra bassist, poses for a photo in Atlanta. Little, whose career spanned a world-record with a single orchestra, has died at age 87 after collapsing onstage Sunday, May 15, 2016, during a performance. (Louie Favorite/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT
ATLANTA — Jane Little, an Atlanta Symphony Orchestra bassist whose career spanned a world-record 71 years with a single orchestra, has died at age 87 after collapsing onstage during a performance.
Little collapsed Sunday during a performance of “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” the orchestra said. She was briefly revived before dying at an Atlanta hospital.
The bassist was recognized by Guinness World Records for the longest professional tenure with a single orchestra earlier this year when she performed Feb. 4. That was 71 years to the day since her first concert with the group’s forerunner, the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra.
The Atlanta native had joined the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra at age 16, after two years of studying bass in high school.— Associated Press