Oscar-winning composer Elmer Bernstein dies at 82
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BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Oscar and Emmy winning film composer Elmer Bernstein died on Wednesday at the age of 82, according to China Radio International Friday.
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Malcolm Arnold, the British composer who  won an Oscar for the musical score to the film "The Bridge on  the River Kwai," has died after a brief illness.
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Composer Cy Coleman, who wrote the  musical "Sweet Charity" and whose songs included such Frank  Sinatra classics as "Witchcraft," "Big Spender" and "The Best  is Yet to Come," has died at the age 75, associates said on  Friday.
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Playbill - Wally Harper, the respected pianist, arranger, composer and musical director who had a long association with the singer Barbara Cook, died the morning of Oct. 8, according to friends and colleagues.
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Legendary Italian tenor Luciano  Pavarotti, who brought opera to the masses, died on Thursday  after a battle with cancer. He was 71.
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LOS ANGELES : Oscar-winning US composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote the scores of Hollywood films including &quot;To Kill a Mockingbird,&quot; &quot;The Magnificent Seven&quot; and &quot;Ghostbusters&quot; has died, his publicist said Thursday.
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Sidney Sheldon, an Oscar-winning  Hollywood screenwriter who went on to become one of the world's  most prolific novelists, died in California on Tuesday at the  age of 89, a publicist said.
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Playbill - Cy Coleman, the Tony Award-winning Broadway composer who rose from child classical pianist to jazz player to master of the catchy show tune, died Nov. 18 of a heart attack, according to friends and colleagues in the theatre community.
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Director of Bombay Dreams musical dies of lung cancer.
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Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti dies at the age of 71 after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Sidney Lumet, the acclaimed American film-maker who directed 12 Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon, is finally getting an Oscar. In almost 50 years the 80-year-old director
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Oscar Peterson, who sat atop the world of jazz piano for decades with his driving two-handed swing, technical wizardry and rapid-fire solos, died on Sunday of kidney failure, CBC Television said. He was 82.
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Ellis Marsalis Sr., patriarch of  the family of jazz greats that includes his grandsons Wynton  and Branford, died over the weekend at the age of 96, a New  Orleans funeral home said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK - 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.    Ebb died Saturday at his home, said David McKeown, an assistant to composer John Kander, Ebb's longtime collaborator...
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Oscar Peterson, who sat atop the world of jazz piano for decades with his driving two-handed swing, technical wizardry and rapid-fire solos, has died, a friend of the artist said on Monday. He was 82.
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Film score composer Sir Malcolm Arnold dies in hospital after a brief illness at the age of 84.
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Malcolm Arnold, the British composer who   won an Oscar for the musical score to the film "The Bridge on   the River Kwai," has died after a brief illness.