Category: people

Robert Lloyd: “Notwithstanding the dozen years of hosting Star Search, a role in the 1997 Tom Arnold sitcom The Tom Show, a high-profile Cash4Gold ad during the last Super Bowl and all that knocking on people’s doors in the name of American Family Publishers, McMahon was a professional sidekick, a less-than-equal partner in an enterprise of which he was nevertheless a vital part. … But in a world where everyone is innately a star, what does it mean to settle for life as a mere moon?”

“[The] arts columnist and former assistant editor of the Evening Standard, has announced he is to leave the recently rebranded newspaper this week. … ‘After writing a weekly column for 15 years I owe myself a short sabbatical and my desire for a break coincided with a change of direction at the Standard‘.”

He’s the chairman of the board of the Museum of Modern Art. She’s chair of Lincoln Center…

“Khan established music schools in Calcutta, California (where he was based from 1965 onwards) and Switzerland. He toured throughout the world, and composed and recorded prolifically. Khan was “discovered” by the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who first met him on a visit to India in 1952, declaring him to be “an absolute genius, the greatest musician in the world”. Within three years, Menuhin had facilitated Khan’s breakthrough as an international artist, organising his American debut at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.”

“Rattle is settling into comfortable middle age. The blue T-shirt may advertise a man still young at heart but the curls are white and thinning. Yesterday’s boy wonder is now older than most of his orchestra. He has begun to slow down, to be slightly less sensitive to criticism. But there’s another factor at work.”

He “is adding to his musical resume with an appearance on … Batman: The Brave and the Bold? The lighthearted Cartoon Network series recruited the How I Met Your Mother star for a villainous turn as the Music Meister in a Season 2 episode set to air this fall.”

“A year after the death of famed New England illustrator Tasha Tudor, the family battle over her estate, which seemed like it could not get any uglier, has taken a turn for the worse. The artist’s grown children, already at odds over her will, are now fighting in Vermont Probate Court over whether and how to bury their mother. Tudor, who died a year ago today, said expressly in her will that she did not want a funeral.”

“From 1945 to 1979, Ms. Connors ran the university’s program for presenting music, dance and theatrical events on campus – the first salaried employee responsible for undertaking a job formerly done by a faculty member.” She brought the likes of Rostropovich, Birgit Nilsson, Dave Brubeck and Ravi Shankar to Berkeley, creating what has become one of the leading arts presenters in the U.S.

A look at the careers of the Futurists Natalia Goncharova and Sonia Delaunay, who helped change the trajectory of art and design in Europe.

“The 73-year-old conductor has cancelled three concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic – two in Vienna on June 19 and 21, and one in Paris on June 22 – after ‘undergoing emergency surgery 48 hours ago for a hernia’.”