Richard Charles Rodgers (1902-1972), American composer, wrote the music for over 50 stage and film musicals and helped make the American musical a legitimate art form.When Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart...
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(Reuters) - Jazz great Oscar Peterson died Sunday
of kidney failure, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. He
was 82. Here are some of the pianist's albums. * "Evening with Oscar Peterson" (19...
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Ellen Hanley _ a musical-theater performer best-known for playing Fiorello LaGuardia's first wife in the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Fiorello!" _ has died of a stroke after a long battle with cancer. S...
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Nov 15 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to
have occurred on Nov. 22 since 1900: 1916 - The American writer Jack London, author of the novels
"White Fang" and "Call of the Wild", ...
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"Tarzan" will take its last swing through the Broadway jungle on July 8. The lavish Disney stage version of its 1999 animated film will close after 486 performances and 35 previews, Thomas Schumach...
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Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress who hosted her own TV variety show and starred with Sidney Poitier in the early 1970s, has died. She was 72. McNair died Sunday in Los Angeles af...
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SHOOT THE WIDOW: ADVENTURES OF A BIOGRAPHER IN SEARCH OF HER SUBJECTBy Meryle SecrestAlfred A. Knopf, 242 pages, $25.95
Biography is the perfect occupation for the scholar-squirrel, assiduousl...
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THE HOUSE THAT GEORGE BUILT: WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM IRVING, COLE, AND A CREW OF ABOUT FIFTY By Wilfrid Sheed Random House, 335 pages, $29.95
“What comes first, the words or the music?̶...
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Kitty Carlisle Hart died last week. She admitted to 96. But she was as young as the spring air. She left behind friends from every meeting she attended, every restaurant she dined in, every street ...
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Richard Charles Rodgers
FACTBOX-Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson dies
