In Remembrance---2009

[Dannyalcatraz]

Frederick Gore, who died on August 31 aged 95, was that rare thing in the art world: a prolific and successful painter who also managed to sustain several active and parallel careers, as teacher, art-school administrator and committee man.
Frederick Gore - Telegraph

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

James Lord, who has died aged 86, became a close friend of Pablo Picasso and the artist's discarded mistress, model and muse Dora Maar; he wrote a gossipy biography of the couple as well as several memoirs that vividly portrayed the artistic scene in Paris in the years following the Second World War.

James Lord - Telegraph

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Paul Cattermole, who died on July 31 aged 67, was a leading authority on church bells and bell-ringing; he demonstrated that the sound of bells was as characteristic and evocative of everyday life in medieval England as is the call of the muezzin of Cairo or Istanbul.

Paul Cattermole - Telegraph

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

John M. Stephens, a New England Patriots running back who was the 1988 offensive rookie of the year, died Tuesday after his pickup truck ran off a highway near here and struck trees. He was 43.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/sports/football/04stephens.html?_r=1

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

William Korey, who as a lobbyist on international issues for B’nai B’rith fought for the interests of Jews in the Soviet Union and helped win a long battle to get the United States to ratify the international genocide convention, died on Aug. 26 in Cambridge, Mass. He was 87.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/world/04korey.html

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Marie Knight, whose rich, room-filling contralto voice provided the ideal counterweight to Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s more penetrating higher register on some of the most popular gospel records of the 1940s, died Sunday in Manhattan. She was 89.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/arts/music/03knight.html

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Erich Kunzel, the award winning conductor for the Cincinnati Pops, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 74.

 

[Mark]

Wycliffe Johnson, keyboardist, dies in NY at 47

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Army Archerd, longtime columnist for Daily Variety, died yesterday. He was 87.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Australian actor Ray Barrett died yesterday. He was 82.