Czech composer Petr Eben dies at 78
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Czech composer Petr Eben, whose wide variety of music has been performed around the globe, has died. He was 78.
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LOS ANGELES - Elmer Bernstein, the versatile, Oscar-winning composer who scored such movie classics as "The Ten Commandments,""The Magnificent Seven,""To Kill a Mockingbird,""The Great Escape" and "True Grit," died Wednesday. He was 82...
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Swiss conductor Armin Jordan, a familiar   figure in leading opera houses and concert halls around Europe   and the United States, died on Wednesday, aged 74, the   Geneva-based Suisse Romande orchestra (OSR) announced.
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Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion who was once dubbed the "Mozart of Chess", has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
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Composer Elmer Bernstein famed for film scores including The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) has died aged 82.
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US-born chess legend Bobby Fischer, whose tortured genius prompted both awe and outrage, has died at the age of 64 at his home in Iceland, a close friend said Friday.
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Ivan Hlinka, a former Pittsburgh Penguins coach who led the Czech Republic to a gold medal at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, died Monday after being injured in a car crash.
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LOS ANGELES - Film composer Elmer Bernstein, who created a brawny, big-sky theme for "The Magnificent Seven," nerve-jangling jazz for "The Man With The Golden Arm" and heart-rending grace notes for "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died.    Bernstein, whose prolific career spanned seven decades and earned him 14 Academy Award nominations, an Oscar win and an Emmy Award, died in his sleep at his Ojai home Wednesday, said his publicist, Cathy Mouton...
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Former Israeli army chief of staff Rafael Eitan has died after drowning at Ashdod Port, south of Tel Aviv. He was 75. Eitan reportedly fell from a breakwater structure into
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Hollywood composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote the scores for such movies as &quot;The Magnificent Seven&quot; and &quot;Thoroughly Modern Millie&quot; during a wide-ranging 50-year career, has died near Los Angeles according to news reports.
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Jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson dies aged 82, according to Canadian media reports.
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Oscar-winning motion picture composer Elmer Bernstein has died after a lengthy illness. He was 82. A spokesman says Mr. Bernstein died Wednesday at his Ojai, California home near Los Angeles.
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Composer Elmer Bernstein, 82, who died of undisclosed causes Aug. 18 at his home in Ojai, Calif., wrote music for more than 200 movies.
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Fred Ebb, who penned the lyrics for Broadway hits   Cabaret and Chicago, as well as the Big Apple anthem, "New   York, New York," died Saturday in a New York hospital after suffering a   heart attack.
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Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for such hit Broadway musicals as "Chicago" and "Cabaret" as well as the big-city anthem "New York, New York," has died of a heart attack.
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That cynical lyric from the 1968 musical Zorba sums up one side of the world view of its author, Fred Ebb, who died of a heart attack at his New York home on Saturday.
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The man who introduced transcendental meditation to the West, who briefly became a guru to the Beatles and other pop musicians and who built a multimillion-dollar global business based on teaching people how to pause and close their eyes twice a day, died Feb. 5 at his home in Vlodrop, Netherlands....