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    May 21, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  1. 2012: The Year the Music Died (So Far)

    <span style="font-size: medium;">It&rsquo;s not even June. But already this calendar year we&rsquo;ve lost a gut-wrenching list of people who&rsquo;ve impacted the music world: impresarios Don Cornelius and Dick Clark, R&amp;B legends Johnny Otis and Etta James, the incomparable Band singer and drummer Levon Helm, bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, amp builder Jim Marshall, Memphis Horns saxophonist Andrew Love, pop icons Whitney Houston and Davy Jones, Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, Stax bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, disco queen Donna Summer, classical art-song master Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, on and on. And, earlier this week, Robin Gibb, who&rsquo;d been battling cancer for some time.</span>
    It’s not even June. But already this calendar year we’ve lost a gut-wrenching list of people who’ve impacted the music world: impresarios Don Cornelius and Dick Clark, R&B legends Johnny Otis and Etta James, the incomparable Band...

    Tags: Hubert Sumlin, Amy Winehouse, Obituaries, Facebook, Robin Gibb

    2. May 20, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. PASSINGS: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Bob Boozer, Jim Abdnor, Chuck Brown, Herbert Breslin

    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Renowned baritone championed German lieder Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, a renowned baritone who led a worldwide revival in popularity for German lieder, died in his sleep Friday at his home in the southern German city of...

    Tags: Louis Brown, College Basketball, Austria, Pneumonia, Politics

    3. Feb 4, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Visiting Verdi at the Musicians' Rest Home he founded in Milan

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    Yet Verdi’s own idea of what his proudest legacy would be –- he called it his favorite of all his works – was the Casa di Riposo per Musicisti, a retirement home in Milan for musicians who had reached age 65 and found themselves in...
    4. Jun 15, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Culture watch: A recently discovered 'Das Lied von der Erde' recording

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    Mark Swed reviews recently discovered recording of Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" with Fritz Wunderlich and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau....
    5. May 16, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. 'The Ring,' captured on CD and DVD

    Complete "Ring" cycles have been a feature of the recording industry for some 50 years, first as a platform for the star conductor and lately for the star director. There are fast "Rings," profound "Rings," Eurotrash "Rings," even your father's "Ring," in an old-fashioned look from the Metropolitan Opera under James Levine (on Deutsche Grammophon DVDs). Here are a few of the more adventurous "Rings," starting with the CDs.
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    Complete "Ring" cycles have been a feature of the recording industry for some 50 years, first as a platform for the star conductor and lately for the star director. There are fast "Rings," profound "Rings," Eurotrash "Rings," even your father's "Ring," in...

    Tags: Theater, Christa Ludwig, Daniel Barenboim, Arts and Culture, Birgit Nilsson

    6. Oct 11, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  6. L.A. in the grips of Gustavo-mania

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    Gustavo Dudamel throws himself into his conducting during his inaugural performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall as new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times / October 8, 2009) Through the generosity and...
    7. Mar 28, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  7. Music review: Hanns Eisler, a Marxist for our time?

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    Hanns Eisler is not, yet, a recovered voice. A two-time Oscar nominee for best score, the German composer, who fled the Nazis in 1933, was the first in motion pictures to be called up by the House Committee on Un-American......
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