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Actress Natasha Richardson Dead at 45, After Ski Accident
One function of celebrity is to alert the rest of us to hard truths, to teach us the lessons of love and grief. Among these is the cruelest jest of fate: a child's death that precedes his or her parents. That instructive obscenity slammed home today with the death of Natasha Richardson, a distinguished British actress ...
Anne Brown, Soprano Who Was Gershwin's Bess, is Dead at 96
Anne Brown, a penetratingly pure soprano who literally put the Bess in “Porgy and Bess” by inspiring George Gershwin to expand the character’s part in a folk opera that was originally to be called “Porgy,” died Friday in Oslo. She was 96. Her daughter Paula Schjelderup announced the death. “Porgy and Bess” burst onto the American ...
Journalist Harvey Geller Writer Penned Lyrics for Popular Folk Acts Dies
Harvey Geller, lyricist and music journalist who worked as a sales exec for Daily Variety and served as West Coast editor of Cash Box magazine, died March 12 in Tarzana, Calif., after a brief illness. He was 86. Geller also worked as a columnist, feature writer and reviewer, and as a sales executive for Billboard magazine. ...
Jack Lawrence Songwriter did Lyrics for 'Tenderly' and 'Beyond the Sea' Dies
Jack Lawrence, a songwriter who wrote the lyrics for hits such as “All or Nothing at All," “Tenderly" and “Beyond the Sea," has died. He was 96. Lawrence, who fractured his pelvic bone in a fall in his Redding, Conn., home Friday, died of complications Sunday at Danbury Hospital, said Richard D. Lawrence, Lawrence's longtime partner ...
David Williams Guitarist on Jackson Hits Dies
David Williams, 58, a session guitar player who performed and recorded with Michael Jackson, Madonna and the Temptations, among others, died of cardiac arrest March 6 at the Sentara CarePlex Hospital in Hampton, Va., after suffering a stroke March 2. A native of Newport News, Va., Williams had moved to Hampton after years living in California ...
Altovise Davis Dies Widow of Sammy Davis Jr.
Altovise Davis, the widow of Rat Pack singer and dancer Sammy Davis Jr., died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of complications from a stroke, her business partner, Barrett LaRoda, said. She was 65. Davis was surrounded at the Los Angeles hospital by friends and family, including her son, Manny Davis. Trained as an actor and dancer, ...
Joseph Bloch, Guide to Juilliard Pianists, Dies at 91
The pianist confronts an embarrassment of riches. To a performer embarking on a concert career, five centuries of keyboard music beckon, with every phrase of every prelude and fugue, every sonata and partita, mazurka and minuet, impromptu and intermezzo, rhapsody and fantasy and scherzo and concerto the hundreds of thousands of pieces the repertory comprises open ...
Alan Livingston Capitol Records Prez Brought Beatles to U.S. Dies
Alan Livingston, music exec who created Bozo the Clown and brought the Beatles to America as president of Capitol Records, died March 13 in Los Angeles. He was 91. Livingston created the Bozo character for a bestselling series of children's story records for Capitol, later producing a TV show before selling rights to the late Larry ...
Hal Gaba Dies at 63; Chairman and Co-Owner of Concord Music Group
Hal Gaba and longtime friend and business partner Norman Lear bought Northern California-based Concord Records in 1999 and turned it into one of the world’s largest independent record companies. It’s now based in Beverly Hills and called the Concord Music Group. Hal Gaba, a veteran entertainment industry executive who was chairman and co-owner of Concord Music ...
Ralph Mercado Impresario Dies
Ralph Mercado, a promoter who took his passion for Latin music and built an empire around it, not only staging concerts but creating a recording and publishing label, a film and video company, and nightclubs and restaurants, died on Tuesday in Hackensack, N.J. He was 67. Mercado promoted salsa, Latin jazz, Latin rock and merengue, and ...
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