Singer and songwriter -- via Le Monde.
Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Robert O. Ragland
Film composer -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Among his titles: "Q: The Winged Serpent," "Grizzly," and "The Thing with Two Heads."
John Birch
Organist, choirmaster; and director of music at Chichester Cathedral -- via the Telegraph. Most famously, he commissioned Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms."
Albert Falco
Diver, undersea explorer and ship captain -- via the Telegraph. A long-time associate of Jacques Cousteau; when we were kids and would pretend to be deep-ocean explorers, we would vie to see who would play him . . . as he had the coolest name. "Falco weel now attempt to engage zee elooseeve jiant squeed!"
Monday, April 30, 2012
Irving Millman
Microbiologist -- via the New York Times. He helped develop the vaccine for hepatitis B, as well as a test for it.
Pete Fornatale
Visionary, pioneer radio dj -- via the New York Times. He invented a new way of listening to radio, and music, crafting long thematic sets of wildly varied musics; playing entire albums; and generally created the "FM sound."
Ernest Callenbach
Writer, editor and futurist -- via the New York Times. His fiction and non-fiction writing on "ecotopias" predicted and called for many of the ideas used in sustainable, selective-tech living today -- recycling, solar power, legalized marijuana, local organic food growth, etc.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Amos Vogel aka Amos Vogelbaum
Cineaste, film society director, co-founder of the New York Film Festival, and writer of the great text "Film as a Subversive Art" -- via the New York Times. "The commercialization of art and entertainment is a negative factor in human development," he said.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
"Obituaries as an educational tool"
Some good observations by Cory Franklin in the pages of the Chicago Tribune --
Friday, April 27, 2012
Bill "Moose" Skowron
Stellar first baseman -- via the New York Daily News. An eight-time All-Star and a member of five World Series-winning teams -- he hit 211 homers during the course of his career.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Paul Bogart aka Paul Bogoff
Emmy-winning television and film director -- via the New York Times. A master of live television and the situation comedy; also directed one of my favorite filmed performances of all time, Hal Holbrook's "Mark Twain Tonight!"
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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