Centennial Celebration for a Conductor
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Salzburg, Austria, which was the host for Mozartâs 250th-birthday celebrations in 2006, will commemorate the 100th birthday of another famous native son, the conductor Herbert von Karajan, above. The festivities will begin with a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic on Saturday at the Grosses Festspielhaus hall in Salzburg, Agence France-Presse reported. The orchestra, which von Karajan conducted from 1955 until his death in 1989, will also play in Berlin, Paris and Tokyo, and there will be a Karajan Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, among other festivities in 2008. The birthday itself, on April 5, will be honored with a ceremony in the Mozart House museum in Salzburg. Von Karajan joined the Nazi Party in 1935, a move that greatly helped his career until he fled Germany for Milan in 1944. He was the favorite conductor of Hermann Goering, Hitlerâs second in command. After the war the Allies banned him from conducting. The ban was lifted in 1947.
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HIGH RIVER, Alberta - Long past putting on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police uniform, Ernie Henderson celebrated his 100th birthday as well as his status as the oldest living Mountie.
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The Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a tribute to its late founder, Gian Carlo Menotti, featuring concerts and an opera written by the Italian composer.
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Some of Ronald Reagan's closest friends and greatest admirers gathered on what would have been the former president's 94th birthday to mark one more for the Gipper.
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The organiser of the Glastonbury Festival is to receive an honorary degree.
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Little Rock, Ark. -- In honor of the first Democrat to win two terms since Franklin D. Roosevelt, members of many of the nation&#39;s past and present first families celebrated the life and political talents of
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That&#39;s more than any other baseball player except Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. Pretty good company there. It was an accomplishment to be celebrated, and in San Francisco, they did.
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Tributes hail "outstanding" and "genius" composer Sir Malcolm Arnold, following his death aged 84.
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Friends and colleagues pay tributes to jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson, who has died aged 82.
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âFace the Nationâ anchor Bob Schieffer paid a musical tribute to his boss, Sumner Redstone, at a gala honoring the media mogul.
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Highlights of the year in dance include: the centennial celebrations of George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, the rescue of the Dance Theater of Harlem and more.
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Too often, those who make the greatest contributions to mankind pass away into obscurity, their legacy becoming one with the collective experience. One such man passed away this month. You may not know him or recognize his name, but you have cause to mourn his passing.  And what was his gift to the world? You need look no further than the grey image above these words.
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Lifestyle: 3 September 2004, Friday. A special concert in memory of famous Bulgarian basso Nikolay Ghiaurov, who died on June 2, will take place September 13 in Sofia.
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Merci beaucoup, Frederic. The Statue of Liberty hosted a party Sunday honoring its creator, sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, for the 100th anniversary of his death.
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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Staff writer Letta Tayler contributed to this story, which was supplemented with wire service reports. LIMA, Peru - Lori Berenson, who on Tuesday marked her ninth anniversary
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Friends and former colleagues celebrated the 94th birthday of the late President Reagan Sunday with a wreath-laying at his grave site.
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The composer belts out an impressive concert.