“There is no more beautiful sound than the voices of siblings swirled together in high harmony, and when Phil and Don Everly combined their voices with songs about yearning, angst and loss, it changed the world.”
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Multiple Oscar-Winning Producer Saul Zaentz Dies At 92
Zaentz was a “fiesty music industry executive turned independent movie producer who won three best-picture Academy Awards in three different decades” – for One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, and The English Patient.
Winton Dean, World’s Top Handel Scholar, Dead at 97
He was known as an astute critic and a historian of Beethoven and Bizet, it was “his series of books on Handel … completed when he was 90 – that indelibly lingered and really mattered.”
Writer Elizabeth Jane Howard, 90
“[She] won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize in 1951 for her debut novel, The Beautiful Visit. But she is best known for her five-part family saga, The Cazalet Chronicles.” Martin Amis (her stepson) declared her “the most interesting woman writer of her generation.”
Winton Dean, World’s Top Handel Scholar, Dead at 97
He was known as an astute critic and a historian of Beethoven and Bizet, it was “his series of books on Handel … completed when he was 90 – that indelibly lingered and really mattered.”
Lawyer Fined For Outing JK Rowling Pseudonym Last Year
“Chris Gossage of London law firm Russells Solicitors — which represents Rowling — told a friend of his wife that the “Harry Potter” creator was author of “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” published last year under the name Robert Galbraith. The friend tweeted the information, and it was followed up by the Sunday Times.”
Lawyer Fined For Outing JK Rowling Pseudonym Last Year
“Chris Gossage of London law firm Russells Solicitors — which represents Rowling — told a friend of his wife that the “Harry Potter” creator was author of “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” published last year under the name Robert Galbraith. The friend tweeted the information, and it was followed up by the Sunday Times.”
In 1964 Isaac Asimov Predicted What Life In 2014 Would Be Like. Here’s What He Said
”[T]he most glorious single word in the vocabulary will have become work!” in our ”a society of enforced leisure.”
Is Valery Gergiev Being Scapegoated for the Kremlin’s Anti-Gay Policies?
As head of St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theater and a famously tireless globe-trotter, Gergiev is Russia’s leading conductor and arguably its most prominent living musician. He is also the cultural figure most closely identified with Vladimir Putin. Consequently, it is Gergiev who is constantly targeted with protests in the West over Russia’s treatment of its gay citizens. Mark Swed considers whether this is fair.
Is Valery Gergiev Being Scapegoated for the Kremlin’s Anti-Gay Policies?
As head of St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theater and a famously tireless globe-trotter, Gergiev is Russia’s leading conductor and arguably its most prominent living musician. He is also the cultural figure most closely identified with Vladimir Putin. Consequently, it is Gergiev who is constantly targeted with protests in the West over Russia’s treatment of its gay citizens. Mark Swed considers whether this is fair.