Category: people

Listed month by month…

“We saw the passing of many individuals who changed the very history of their genres (and some whose influence was even wider).”

“Something happened in 2007, something ended. Old gods stumbled and fell. New ones sprang up. But they sprang up in their thousands. That’s the point these days.”

Darcy Bussell, recently retired former principal dancer with the Royal Ballet is moving to Sydney with her Australian-born husband, Angus Forbes, and their daughters, Phoebe, 6, and Zoe, 3.

Kidd, whose joyously athletic dances for ballet, Broadway and Hollywood delighted audiences for half a century and won him five Tonys and an Oscar, has died.

In performance, Peterson clearly preferred a classical-like concert stage to a club milieu. For years, he’d play nightclubs only if air conditioners and cash registers were closed down — meaning no drinks served — during his performance. But Peterson’s playing always seemed born of the energy and ambiance of clubs.

“In truth, playing piano like Peterson wasn’t easy. In fact, it was damned near impossible. Like the great Art Tatum before him, Peterson was prodigiously gifted, possessed of virtuosity beyond anything normally found in jazz.”

“Oscar Peterson, whose early talent, speedy fingers and musical genius made him one of the world’s best known jazz pianists, has died. He was 82… Peterson’s family were with him during his final moments. The cause of death was kidney failure.”

A nasty book review “has reignited a feud between the two philosophers that shows how bitter, unforgiving and (to outsiders) unwittingly hilarious academic disputes can be. It certainly makes the bear pit that is journalism seem like sunshine and lollipops by comparison.”

“Allen Young saw and heard thousands of ballets, plays and concerts in his life and he never seemed to forget any of them. Young, former music critic at The Denver Post, died Monday at a care facility.”