Obituary : William Malloch; Ojai Festival Official, KPFK Director

William Malloch, 68, music teacher at UCLA and former artistic director of the Ojai Music Festival, longtime music director of radio station KPFK and music director of the Mahler Society of California for more than 15 years. Born in Grand Rapids, Mich., he graduated from UC Berkeley in 1951, with postgraduate studies at Tanglewood and the Vienna Academy of Music. Winner of numerous awards for his radio documentaries, Malloch received special recognition for a commemorative recording, “Gustav Mahler Remembered,” first issued in 1967 and reissued five years later with Leonard Bernstein’s recordings of Mahler’s Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5. Malloch’s compositions include music for keyboard and symphonic wind ensembles, and he contributed numerous articles to Opus magazine and other publications. At his home in Los Angeles of cancer Tuesday.