Ray Sawyer was born on February 1, 1937, Chickasaw, Alabama, United States and died on December 31, 2018.
He was an American singer.
He was best known as a vocalist with the 1970s rock band, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show.
In spite of the fact that principally a sponsorship vocalist and incidental percussionist on congas or maracas, he sang lead on their hit melody "The Cover of Rolling Stone" and was a conspicuous nearness in the band because of the eyepatch and cowhand cap he wore.
Ray Sawyer was also the uncle of the vocalist of Wild Fire, Zack Sawyer.
Sawyer lost his right eye in a 1967 automobile accident.
Ray Sawyer passed away at 81 years old.
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Monday 31 December 2018
Wednesday 26 December 2018
Theodore Antoniou, Greek composer and conductor, Died at 83
Theodore Antoniou was born on February 10, 1935, in Athens, Greece and died on December 26, 2018.
He was a Greek composer and conductor.
His works differ from musical shows and choral attempts to ambiance music, from film and theater music to solo instrumental works.
Antoniou was trained in violin, voice, and arrangement at the National Conservatory of Athens, the Hellenic Conservatory, and directing at both The Hochschule für Musik and the International Music Center in Darmstadt.
Antoniou is an individual from the Academy of Athens.
During 2004, Antoniou was granted the Herder Prize from the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. Antoniou was a teacher among the structure staff at Boston University, where he served since 1978.
Antoniou also led and directed the new music gathering Alea III, which holds home at Boston University.
The troupe performs oftentimes with new and debuting structures, has worked with various eminent craftsmen, and has visited Europe on various events.
Theodore Antoniou passed away at 83 years old due to complications from Alzheimer's disease.
He was a Greek composer and conductor.
His works differ from musical shows and choral attempts to ambiance music, from film and theater music to solo instrumental works.
Antoniou was trained in violin, voice, and arrangement at the National Conservatory of Athens, the Hellenic Conservatory, and directing at both The Hochschule für Musik and the International Music Center in Darmstadt.
Antoniou is an individual from the Academy of Athens.
During 2004, Antoniou was granted the Herder Prize from the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. Antoniou was a teacher among the structure staff at Boston University, where he served since 1978.
Antoniou also led and directed the new music gathering Alea III, which holds home at Boston University.
The troupe performs oftentimes with new and debuting structures, has worked with various eminent craftsmen, and has visited Europe on various events.
Theodore Antoniou passed away at 83 years old due to complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Friday 21 December 2018
Dipali Barthakur, Indian singer, Died at 77
Dipali Barthakur was born on January 30, 1941, in Sonari at Sivasagar, Assam and died on December 21, 2018.
She was an Indian singer from Assam.
Barthakur's songs were sung mainly in the Assamese language, and she was known as the "Nightingale of Assam".
Barthakur received the fourth-highest civilian award of India, the Padma Shri, in the year 1998.
Her parents were Bishwanath Borthakur and Chandrakanti Devi.
She performed her last song "Luito nejabi boi" in 1969.
Then, she started began suffering from a severe Motor neuron disease which hindered her singing and forced her to use a wheelchair.
Barthakur married Neel Pawan Barua, in 1976, an eminent Indian artist and painter from Assam and son of renowned Assamese writer Binanda Chandra Barua.
She died at Nemcare Hospital, Guwahati after a prolonged illness.
Dipali Barthakur passed away at 77 years old.
She was an Indian singer from Assam.
Barthakur's songs were sung mainly in the Assamese language, and she was known as the "Nightingale of Assam".
Barthakur received the fourth-highest civilian award of India, the Padma Shri, in the year 1998.
Her parents were Bishwanath Borthakur and Chandrakanti Devi.
She performed her last song "Luito nejabi boi" in 1969.
Then, she started began suffering from a severe Motor neuron disease which hindered her singing and forced her to use a wheelchair.
Barthakur married Neel Pawan Barua, in 1976, an eminent Indian artist and painter from Assam and son of renowned Assamese writer Binanda Chandra Barua.
She died at Nemcare Hospital, Guwahati after a prolonged illness.
Dipali Barthakur passed away at 77 years old.
Friday 28 July 2017
Barbara Weldens, French singer, Died at 35
Barbara Weldens was born on April 17, 1982 in Hérault, France, and died on July 19, 2017.
She was a French singer-songwriter.
After releasing her first studio album, Le grand H de l'homme (Man with a capital H), in February 2017.
Inspired by Jacques Brel, Weldens was a singer in the chanson réaliste tradition.
Waldens often performed in a trio with Barbara Hammadi on piano and Marion Diaques on violin.
Barbara died on stage the following July while performing at a festival.
Barbara Weldens passed away at 35 years old.
She was a French singer-songwriter.
After releasing her first studio album, Le grand H de l'homme (Man with a capital H), in February 2017.
Inspired by Jacques Brel, Weldens was a singer in the chanson réaliste tradition.
Waldens often performed in a trio with Barbara Hammadi on piano and Marion Diaques on violin.
Barbara died on stage the following July while performing at a festival.
Barbara Weldens passed away at 35 years old.
Thursday 27 July 2017
Paul Angerer, Austrian conductor, violist, composer, and radiopresenter, Died at 90
Paul Angerer was bornon May 16, 1927 and died on July 26, 2017.
He was an Austrian violist, conductor, composer and radio presenter.
He studied music theory and composition with Friedrich Reidinger and Alfred Uhl, and conducting with Hans Swarowsky.
Angerer performed in the viola section of Wiener Symphoniker, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande early in his career and was viola soloist with the Wiener Symphoniker from 1953 to 1957.
Then, he started to conduct the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the orchestras in Bonn and Ulm.
Since 1967 to 1972, Angerer was principal conductor of the Salzburg Opera Theater (Salzburger Landestheater) and led the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester from 1971 to 1982.
In 1982, Angerer began conducting the Concilium Musicum Wien and held a teaching position at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 1982 to 1992.
Angerer was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Music in 1953 for his Musik für Viola allein and in 2001, he received the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class.
His compositional style was influenced by that of Paul Hindemith.
Angerer's works are published by Verlag Doblinger, Universal Edition, C. Haslinger and Editions M. Reift.
Paul Angerer passed away at 90 years old.
He was an Austrian violist, conductor, composer and radio presenter.
He studied music theory and composition with Friedrich Reidinger and Alfred Uhl, and conducting with Hans Swarowsky.
Angerer performed in the viola section of Wiener Symphoniker, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande early in his career and was viola soloist with the Wiener Symphoniker from 1953 to 1957.
Then, he started to conduct the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the orchestras in Bonn and Ulm.
Since 1967 to 1972, Angerer was principal conductor of the Salzburg Opera Theater (Salzburger Landestheater) and led the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester from 1971 to 1982.
In 1982, Angerer began conducting the Concilium Musicum Wien and held a teaching position at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 1982 to 1992.
Angerer was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Music in 1953 for his Musik für Viola allein and in 2001, he received the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class.
His compositional style was influenced by that of Paul Hindemith.
Angerer's works are published by Verlag Doblinger, Universal Edition, C. Haslinger and Editions M. Reift.
Paul Angerer passed away at 90 years old.
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Thomas Füri, Swiss violinist, Died at 70
Thomas Füri was born on July 22, 1947, in Bern, and died on July 23, 2017.
He was a Swiss violinist, and a teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Basel.
Furi studied with his father Erich Füri and with Max Rostal at the Hochschule für Musik Bern.
He completed his studies with Ivan Galamian at the Julliard School in New York.
Since 1973 till 1980 Thomas Füri was leader in Koblenz, Lausanne and Basel.
Then from 1979 till 1993 he led the Camerata Bern.
From 1980 till 1991 Thomas Füri taught at the academies in Winterthur and Zürich.
During 1985 he joined I Salonisti, appearing in the 1997 film Titanic.
During 1993, Furi was awarded the Musikpreis des Kantons Bern.
Since 2000 Thomas Füri has been a member of the Aria Quartet.
He played on a 1761 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin.
Thomas Füri passed away at 70 years old.
He was a Swiss violinist, and a teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Basel.
Furi studied with his father Erich Füri and with Max Rostal at the Hochschule für Musik Bern.
He completed his studies with Ivan Galamian at the Julliard School in New York.
Since 1973 till 1980 Thomas Füri was leader in Koblenz, Lausanne and Basel.
Then from 1979 till 1993 he led the Camerata Bern.
From 1980 till 1991 Thomas Füri taught at the academies in Winterthur and Zürich.
During 1985 he joined I Salonisti, appearing in the 1997 film Titanic.
During 1993, Furi was awarded the Musikpreis des Kantons Bern.
Since 2000 Thomas Füri has been a member of the Aria Quartet.
He played on a 1761 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin.
Thomas Füri passed away at 70 years old.
Amir Fryszer Guttman, Israeli singer, Died at 41
Amir Fryszer Guttman was born on April 25, 1976 and died on July 23, 2017.
He was an Israeli singer, musician, choreographer, actor, and theater director.
Amir died from drowning after being swept away with his niece, whom he had held above water; his niece survived.
Amir Fryszer Guttman passed away at 41 years old.
He was an Israeli singer, musician, choreographer, actor, and theater director.
Amir died from drowning after being swept away with his niece, whom he had held above water; his niece survived.
Amir Fryszer Guttman passed away at 41 years old.
Saturday 5 December 2015
Luiz Carlos Miele, Brazilian artist and musical producer, Died at 77
Luiz Carlos Miele was born on May 31,1938, in Rio de Janeiro and died on October 14, 2015.
He was a producer, actor, writer, Brazilian artist, musical producers and director of shows.
Luiz started his professional career as an announcer for the radio stations Excelsior, Tupi and Nacional.
In 1959 Luiz moved to the city of Rio de Janeiro, where he met the composer Ronaldo Bôscoli.
Together they formed the duo Miele & Bôscoli, responsible for the direction and production of various shows, and music programs on television stations.
After the death of comedian Manuel de Nobrega in 1976, he then presents The Praça da Alegria on Rede Globo, leaving the air in 1979.
The program included the participation of Ronald Golias.
On television, Luiz worked in the direction and production of the musical programs Gala Evening and Cara & Crown (with Dori Caymmi and Sylvia Telles), the TV Rio.
He was also apart of the following: Two in the balance sheet (jazz and bossa nova), The Apartment (with Cyl Farney and Odete Lara), King River, The 7 Sins (with Fernando Barbosa Lima) and Musical in Bossa 9, on TV Excelsior, O Fino da Bossa, Show in Simonal and Elis Special on TV Record, Hello Dolly, Dick & Betty 17 (with Dick Farney and Betty Faria), Fantastic (musical direction), Elis Especial, Praça da Alegria, Sandra & Miele, A hundred years show, Viva Marilia and Battle of the Stars, as well as music festivals, on Rede Globo, a man - a woman (with Tuca), Cassio Muniz Show (creation of trade) and Program Flávio Cavalcanti (essential musical) on TV Tupi, Miele & Co. and His & Her (with Leila Richers), in Headline TV, Cocktail and Cocktail at SBT, and Little School of Noise on TV Record.
At the end of 2011 Luis preformed in the film The Adventures of Agamemnon, the reporter playing the father of Agamemnon Mendes quarry .
In 2012 Luiz starred in the miniseries The Brado Resounding in the role of "Nicodemo Cabral, Senator."
He plays the mogul Jack Parker, the novel Generation Brazil, in 2014.
In 2014 Luiz starred in the miniseries The Web, in the role of former Senator Walter Gama.
In August 2014, part of the Famous dance in the program Domingão Faustão.
In 2014, Luiz interprets the stallion neighbor Gustavo Pennaforte, in the episode "She is the Owner of Everything" sitcom betray and Scratching It's Only Starting, channel Multishow.
Luis Carlos Miele passed away at 77 yrs old.
He was a producer, actor, writer, Brazilian artist, musical producers and director of shows.
Luiz started his professional career as an announcer for the radio stations Excelsior, Tupi and Nacional.
In 1959 Luiz moved to the city of Rio de Janeiro, where he met the composer Ronaldo Bôscoli.
Together they formed the duo Miele & Bôscoli, responsible for the direction and production of various shows, and music programs on television stations.
After the death of comedian Manuel de Nobrega in 1976, he then presents The Praça da Alegria on Rede Globo, leaving the air in 1979.
The program included the participation of Ronald Golias.
On television, Luiz worked in the direction and production of the musical programs Gala Evening and Cara & Crown (with Dori Caymmi and Sylvia Telles), the TV Rio.
He was also apart of the following: Two in the balance sheet (jazz and bossa nova), The Apartment (with Cyl Farney and Odete Lara), King River, The 7 Sins (with Fernando Barbosa Lima) and Musical in Bossa 9, on TV Excelsior, O Fino da Bossa, Show in Simonal and Elis Special on TV Record, Hello Dolly, Dick & Betty 17 (with Dick Farney and Betty Faria), Fantastic (musical direction), Elis Especial, Praça da Alegria, Sandra & Miele, A hundred years show, Viva Marilia and Battle of the Stars, as well as music festivals, on Rede Globo, a man - a woman (with Tuca), Cassio Muniz Show (creation of trade) and Program Flávio Cavalcanti (essential musical) on TV Tupi, Miele & Co. and His & Her (with Leila Richers), in Headline TV, Cocktail and Cocktail at SBT, and Little School of Noise on TV Record.
At the end of 2011 Luis preformed in the film The Adventures of Agamemnon, the reporter playing the father of Agamemnon Mendes quarry .
In 2012 Luiz starred in the miniseries The Brado Resounding in the role of "Nicodemo Cabral, Senator."
He plays the mogul Jack Parker, the novel Generation Brazil, in 2014.
In 2014 Luiz starred in the miniseries The Web, in the role of former Senator Walter Gama.
In August 2014, part of the Famous dance in the program Domingão Faustão.
In 2014, Luiz interprets the stallion neighbor Gustavo Pennaforte, in the episode "She is the Owner of Everything" sitcom betray and Scratching It's Only Starting, channel Multishow.
Luis Carlos Miele passed away at 77 yrs old.
Wednesday 2 December 2015
Michael Kidd, American film and stage choreographer, Died at 92
Michael Kidd died on December 23, 2007, at the age of 92, he was an American film and stage choreographer, dancer and actor, whose career spanned five decades, and staged some of the leading Broadway and film musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
Born Milton Greenwald in New York City on the Lower East Side on August 12, 1915, the son of Abraham Greenwald, a barber, and his wife Lillian, who were refugees from Czarist Russia.
He moved to Brooklyn with his family and attended New Utrecht High School.
He studied chemical engineering at the City College of New York, in 1936 and 1937, but left after being granted a scholarship to the School of American Ballet.
He toured the country as a member of the corps de ballet of Lincoln Kirstein’s Ballet Caravan, and performed in roles that included the lead in Billy the Kid, choreographed by Eugene Loring, which featured an orchestral arrangement by Aaron Copland.
Kidd's first choreography on Broadway was for E.Y. Harburg's Finian's Rainbow, a lyrical musical that explored racial prejudice.
Kidd won his first Tony Award for that play.
However, his next Broadway musicals were not successful.
They were Hold It, a college musical, and the Kurt Weill/Alan Jay Lerner musical Love Life, directed by Elia Kazan, which both had short runs in 1948.
Next came Arms and the Girl (1950), directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with Pearl Bailey and Nanette Fabray, also a flop.
Kidd's work for the 1954 film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers brought him acclaim.
The film was directed by Stanley Donen, with music by Saul Chaplin and Gene de Paul and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
It was written directly for the screen and based on the short story "The Sobbin' Women", by Stephen Vincent Benét, which was based in turn on the ancient Roman legend of The Rape of the Sabine Women.
He initially turned down the assignment, recalling in 1997: "Here are these slobs living off in the woods.
They have no schooling, they are uncouth, there's manure on the floor, the cows come in and out—and they're gonna get up and dance? We'd be laughed out of the house."
In 1975 Kidd surprised critics by starring in the Michael Ritchie cult film Smile (1975), a devilishly wicked and clever satire on beauty pageants.
The versatile Michael also directed occasionally for both film (Danny Kaye's Merry Andrew (1958)) and TV (All in the Family (1971), Laverne & Shirley (1976).
The Academy rectified this awkward situation by awarding him an honorary trophy in 1997 for his outstanding services to the art of dance, joining an extremely small and illustrious group that includes Jerome Robbins ("West Side Story") and Onna White ("Oliver").
Kidd believed that dance needed to derive from life, saying that his "dancing is based on naturalistic movement that is abstracted and enlarged” and that "all my movements relate to some kind of real activity".
He always wanted dance to serve the story, and when beginning a new work he would write a scenario, explaining how the plot drove the characters to dance.
His biggest influences were Charlie Chaplin, "because he expressed through movement the aspirations of the little man", and the dancer and choreographer Léonide Massine, "because he expressed more than just balletic ability—he was always a character on stage, an exaggerated character, which I do all the time: an exaggeration of ordinary movement".
Born Milton Greenwald in New York City on the Lower East Side on August 12, 1915, the son of Abraham Greenwald, a barber, and his wife Lillian, who were refugees from Czarist Russia.
He moved to Brooklyn with his family and attended New Utrecht High School.
He studied chemical engineering at the City College of New York, in 1936 and 1937, but left after being granted a scholarship to the School of American Ballet.
He toured the country as a member of the corps de ballet of Lincoln Kirstein’s Ballet Caravan, and performed in roles that included the lead in Billy the Kid, choreographed by Eugene Loring, which featured an orchestral arrangement by Aaron Copland.
Kidd's first choreography on Broadway was for E.Y. Harburg's Finian's Rainbow, a lyrical musical that explored racial prejudice.
Kidd won his first Tony Award for that play.
However, his next Broadway musicals were not successful.
They were Hold It, a college musical, and the Kurt Weill/Alan Jay Lerner musical Love Life, directed by Elia Kazan, which both had short runs in 1948.
Next came Arms and the Girl (1950), directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with Pearl Bailey and Nanette Fabray, also a flop.
Kidd's work for the 1954 film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers brought him acclaim.
The film was directed by Stanley Donen, with music by Saul Chaplin and Gene de Paul and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
It was written directly for the screen and based on the short story "The Sobbin' Women", by Stephen Vincent Benét, which was based in turn on the ancient Roman legend of The Rape of the Sabine Women.
He initially turned down the assignment, recalling in 1997: "Here are these slobs living off in the woods.
They have no schooling, they are uncouth, there's manure on the floor, the cows come in and out—and they're gonna get up and dance? We'd be laughed out of the house."
In 1975 Kidd surprised critics by starring in the Michael Ritchie cult film Smile (1975), a devilishly wicked and clever satire on beauty pageants.
The versatile Michael also directed occasionally for both film (Danny Kaye's Merry Andrew (1958)) and TV (All in the Family (1971), Laverne & Shirley (1976).
The Academy rectified this awkward situation by awarding him an honorary trophy in 1997 for his outstanding services to the art of dance, joining an extremely small and illustrious group that includes Jerome Robbins ("West Side Story") and Onna White ("Oliver").
Kidd believed that dance needed to derive from life, saying that his "dancing is based on naturalistic movement that is abstracted and enlarged” and that "all my movements relate to some kind of real activity".
He always wanted dance to serve the story, and when beginning a new work he would write a scenario, explaining how the plot drove the characters to dance.
His biggest influences were Charlie Chaplin, "because he expressed through movement the aspirations of the little man", and the dancer and choreographer Léonide Massine, "because he expressed more than just balletic ability—he was always a character on stage, an exaggerated character, which I do all the time: an exaggeration of ordinary movement".
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