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« Reply #21 on: July 25, 2009, 03:57:11 AM » |
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Harry Patch the last surviving soldier of the First World War in the trenches died this morning July 25th at 8.50. He was 111. Last week Henry Allingham the oldest man in the world, also a veteran of the First World War died aged 113. Harry's book The Last Fighting Tommy makes very serious reading. He was an amazing man and only a few weeks ago was at a school talking to the children about the war and his life. Rest in peace Harry. Link
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« Reply #26 on: July 28, 2009, 04:43:34 PM » |
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And another big lost , Merce Cunningham, Dance Visionary, Dies . R.I.P http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/arts/dance/28cunningham.html?_r=1 By ALASTAIR MACAULAY Published: July 27, 2009
Merce Cunningham, the revolutionary American choreographer, died Sunday night at his home in Manhattan. He was 90.
His death was announced by the Cunningham Dance Foundation.
Over a career of nearly seven decades, Mr. Cunningham went on posing “But” and “What if?” questions, making people rethink the essence of dance and choreography. He went on doing so almost to the last.
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« Reply #28 on: August 01, 2009, 06:52:16 PM » |
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I am so sorry again....." George Russell, Composer Whose Theories Sent Jazz in a New Direction, Dies at 86 " R.I.P http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=40173 SOURCE: The New York Times - Jazz
George Russell, a jazz composer, educator and musician whose theories led the way to radical changes in jazz in the 1950s and ’60s, died on Monday in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. He was 86 and lived in Boston. The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, said his wife, Alice.
Though he largely operated behind the scenes and was never well known to the general public, Mr. Russell was a major figure in one of the most important developments in post-World War II jazz: the emergence of modal jazz, the first major harmonic change in the music after bebop.
Bebop, the modern style pioneered by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and others, had introduced a new level of harmonic sophistication, based on rapidly moving cycles of dense and sometimes dissonant chords. Modal jazz, as popularized by Miles Davis and John Coltrane, sought to give musicians more freedom and to simplify the harmonic playing field by, in essence, replacing chords with scales as the primary basis for improvisation.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=3978
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