Leonard B. Meyer, Scholar of Musicâs Meaning, Is Dead at 89
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Mr. Meyer was a pioneering musicologist whose 1956 book, âEmotion and Meaning in Music,â remains one of the most significant scholarly works in the field of music cognition.
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Scientists yesterday mourned Maurice Wilkins, sometimes called the forgotten man of DNA, who died in hospital on Tuesday aged 88. Wilkins, a professor at King&#39;s College London, shared the 1962 Nobel prize
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Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&amp;B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, has died, his spokesman said. He was 83.
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The guru to the Beatles who  introduced transcendental meditation to the West, Maharishi  Mahesh Yogi, died at his Dutch home overnight, aides said on  Wednesday. He was said to be 91.
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Director Russ Meyer, whose soft core porn films, &quot;The Immoral Mr Teas,&quot; &quot;Vixen&quot; and &quot;Beyond the Valley of the Dolls&quot; earned him millions of dollars and the title of Hollywood&#39;s &quot;King Leer,&quot; has died at age 82, his film company said
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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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Playbill - Ronald Bryden, a literary adviser to the Shaw Festival in Canada, and one of the leading theatre critics in the English-speaking world, died Nov. 22 of complications following recent heart surgery, according to the Ontario festival.
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Titillation kingpin Russ Meyer, the mastermind behind soft-core   classics like Vixen! and  Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!   and the mainstream melodrama Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, died   Saturday at his Hollywood home. He was 82.
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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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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, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported. He was  82.
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Artie Shaw, a clarinetist and bandleader who symbolized the Big Band era of the 1930s and 1940s, died today in California, the Associated Press reported, citing his manager Will Curtis.
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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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Milosz, who won the Nobel Literature Prize in 1980, died on August 14 at the age of 93 at his home in the southern city of Krakow.
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Venezuelan pianist and composer Aldemaro Romero, whose music was interpreted by artists from Tito Puente to Dean Martin, died Saturday. He was 79.
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John W. Peterson, who authored more than 1,000 gospel hymns in a musical career that began before World War II, has died. He was 84. Peterson died Sept. 20 of cancer at his home in Scottsdale.
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Director Russ Meyer, whose soft  core porn films, "The Immoral Mr Teas," "Vixen" and "Beyond the  Valley of the Dolls" earned him millions of dollars and the  title of Hollywood's "King Leer," has died at age 82, his film  company said on Wednesday.
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Gyorgy Faludy, a poet and translator considered one of Hungary's greatest literary figures of the past century, has died.