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Friday听14th December 2007
(Rpt) Sunday听16th听December |
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Composer who has died aged 79.
Karlheinz Stockhausen was seen by some as the most important German musician since Wagner, and by others as a charlatan. He was best known for his ground breaking work in electronic music and serial composition and often challenged performers to test the limits of their physical and imaginative capabilities.
Stockhausen wrote over 350 individual works and spent the latter part of his life working on a vast opera cycle called Licht听 which was divided into episodes named after the days of the week.
His revolutionary approach influenced many rock and jazz artists, including Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Kraftwerk and Pink Floyd.
Conventional classical music opinion was divided. When Sir Thomas Beecham was asked if he鈥檇 ever heard any of Stockhausen鈥檚 music he replied 鈥淣o, but I think I once trod in some鈥.
Karlheinz Stockhausen was born August 22nd 1928. He died December 5th 2007.
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Marit Allen
Fashion editor and film costume designer who has died aged 66
As fashion editor of Vogue magazine, Marit Allen was responsible for some of the most evocative images of the swinging sixties. She used photographers of the moment like David Bailey, Helmut Newton and Cecil Beaton to showcase the latest designers, creating iconic images featuring models like Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy. In 1973, the film director Nicholas Roeg asked her to design costumes for Julie Christie in his film Don鈥檛 Look Now and Marit began a career in costume design that spanned around forty films. She worked with Stanley Kubrick on Eyes Wide Shut, with Robin Williams on Mrs Doubtfire and most recently she designed the costumes for the Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose.
Matthew Bannister talks to one of Marit Allen's colleagues听 at Vogue, Sandy Boler and听film听director Ang Lee听 whom she designed听costumes for Ride with the Devil, Hulk听 and Brokeback Mountain. There is also a special archive recording from the British Library.
Marit Allen was born September 17th 1941. She died November 26th 2007. |
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Elizabeth Hardwick
Writer and critic who has died aged 91听
Elizabeth Hardwick was a writer, a critic and co-founder of the New York Review of Books. She was a member of the city鈥檚 literati of the late 1940s and 50s. Her tempestuous marriage to the manic depressive poet Robert Lowell was laid bare in his collection The Dolphin听 in which he quoted and mis-quoted her letters and phone calls. One critic described it 鈥渁s one of the most vindictive and mean spirited acts in the history of poetry鈥.
Diane Roberts, Professor of Literature at Florida State University reflects on the life and work of Elizabeth Hardwick.
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Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick was born July 27th 1916. She died听December 2nd听2007.
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Peter Orton
Television entrepreneur who has died aged 79
Barney the purple dinosaur听is just one of the children鈥檚 TV programmes that made Peter Orton a multi millionaire. His HIT entertainment company was started in 1989 with a 拢300,000 overdraft. It听was sold in 2005 for 拢489 million.听HIT was responsible for making and selling around the world series like Bob the Builder, Postman Pat, Brambly Hedge听 andThomas the Tank Engine.
Peter Orton was born in Portsmouth, the son of a steward on ocean liners. He failed his eleven plus and left technical college aged 17 to work in a tailor鈥檚 shop. After a time selling sandals for Scholl, Peter joined a TV sales business called Television International Enterprises where he met the creator of the Muppets Jim Henson. The two men set up Henson International Television and built The Muppets听 and Fraggle Rock听 into international brands. When Henson decided to sell his company to Disney, Peter Orton took the opportunity to launch his own children鈥檚 TV sales business and he听kept the HIT initials.
Matthew Bannister talks to Peter Orton's co-founder of HIT Sophie Turner-Lang, who is now Managing Director of Entertainment at Sky TV and HIT鈥檚 former Head of Creative Development Kate Faulkes.
Peter Orton was born June 17th 1943. He died December 5th 2007.
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Ike Turner
Singer, songwriter and rock entrepreneur who has died aged听听76
Ike Turner was the son of a preacher who at听eight years old began dabbling as a DJ at a local听radio station. In 1951 he created Rocket 88听 who some believe is the听very first rock'n'roll record. The band on the track was Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm.
Ike Turner moved his band to East St Louis in the mid-1950s and began to develop a revue-style show featuring several vocalists. One of these was the teenager Anna Mae Bullock, they married and听Ike encouraged her to change her name to Tina. He wrote many of her songs.
In Tina Turner's 1986 autobiography, she described how he beat her regularly and burned her with cigarettes. Ike offered his own version in his 2001 autobiography Takin' Back My Name.
Izear "Ike" Luster Turner was听born November 5th 1931. He died December 12th 2007. |
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