Hollywood Composer Elmer Bernstein Dies
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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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Friends and colleagues pay tributes to jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson, who has died aged 82.
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Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic are collaborating on an upcoming festival celebrating the late composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.
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Beverly Sills, the world-renowned  soprano who became the most popular opera singer in America in  modern times, died on Monday evening in New York from  inoperable lung cancer, her manager said.
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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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Cy Coleman, composer of the Broadway musicals "Sweet Charity" and "City of Angels" as well as such pop standards as "Witchcraft" and "The Best Is Yet to Come," has died of heart failure. He was 75.
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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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Director of Bombay Dreams musical dies of lung cancer.
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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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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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Oscar Peterson, whose early talent and speedy fingers made him one of the world's best known jazz pianists, died at age 82.
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Artie Shaw, clarinetist and bandleader whose recording of "Begin the Beguine" epitomized the Big Band era, died Thursday at the age of 94, the manager of his orchestra said.
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Variety - 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," died Saturday of 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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Cyrano de Bergerac producer Rene Cleitman dies of an undisclosed illness in a Paris hospital, aged 64.
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Movie composer Elmer Bernstein, creator of The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape, dies aged 82.
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Playbill - Robert Lantz, the Berlin-born, New York-based talent agent whose clients included such theatre and film greats as Leonard Bernstein, Lillian Hellman, Al Hirschfeld, Alfred Drake and Mike Nichols, and who retained his status as an independent until the end, died on Oct. 18 in Manhattan. He was 93.