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Apr 29

Janos Starker, Hungarian-American cellist, obituary photos.

Posted on April 29, 2013 by lebrecht

Janos Starker, one of the greatest cellists of all time, died in Bloomington, Indiana, USA where he had been a professor at the Indiana University Jacobs Memorial School of Music since 1958. He was a distinguished teacher and prolific recording artist, who played principal cello in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for five seasons during the 1950s.

5 July 1924 – 28 April 2013

Apr 24

Obituary pictures for Richie Havens

Posted on April 24, 2013 by lebrecht

Richie Havens – American folk singer and guitarist died 22 April 2013 aged 72. He is best remembered for his intense and rhythmic guitar style and for his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. He was the festival’s first performer and as many of the other artists were held up in traffic jams on the roads approaching the festival site he had to entertain the crowd for nearly three hours and was called back again and again for encores. When he finally ran out of tunes he improvised a song based on the spiritual Motherless Child that became Freedom. The release of the Woodstock movie after this performance helped him reach a wider audience.

Born 21 January 1941- 22 April 2013

Richie Havens performing at Guilfest.
© Andrew Spiers/Lebrecht Music & Arts

Poster for several July 1967 concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, USA.
© Odile Noel/Lebrecht Music & Arts

Apr 16

Pulitzer Prize Winners announced – Tom Reiss and Adam Johnson – photos from Author Pictures at Lebrecht

Posted on April 16, 2013 by lebrecht

Pulitzer Prize Winners announced 15 April 2013

American writer Tom Reiss was awarded the prize for Biography for his book The Black Count on the life of Generale Alexandre Dumas, French-Caribbean military hero and father of novelist Alexandre Dumas père.
Adam Johnson was awarded the prize for Fiction for his North Korean-set novel The Orphan Master’s Son.

Photographs by Miriam Berkley (from National Book Critics Circles Readings and Awards, February 2013)

Tom Reiss at the National Book Critics Circle Readings. 27 February 2013, New York City, US.
© Miriam Berkley/Lebrecht Music & Arts

Adam Johnson at National Book Critics Circle Awards in New York, 28 February 2013.
© Miriam Berkley/Lebrecht Music & Arts

Adam Johnson at National Book Critics Circle Awards in New York, 28 February 2013 with his son and agent.

Apr 05

Risë Stevens, American mezzo-soprano obituary pictures

Posted on April 5, 2013 by lebrecht

Rise Stevens studied at the Juilliard School working with Anna Schoen-René and in Vienna with legendary soprano Marie Gutheil-Schoder and stage director Herbert Graf. She worked with the Met in New York and one of her famous roles was as Carmen in Bizet’s opera.

Rise Stevens, in photo of her appearing in the film ‘Carnegie Hall’ made in 1947. Born in New York 11 June 1913 and died on 20 March 2013 aged 99.

Apr 03

Train performing at the Manchester Apollo

Posted on April 3, 2013 by lebrecht

Photographer Dave Pilkington. Full set of images available at www.lebrecht.co.uk

Mar 01

Van Cliburn obituary – pictures from Lebrecht Music & Arts

Posted on March 1, 2013 by lebrecht

Obituary photos for Harvey Lavan van Cliburn – the first American pianist to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, under the Soviet Union. He won the competition aged 23 in 1958 at the height of the Cold War.

July 12, 1934 – February 27, 2013

Feb 04

Maria Callas – unpublished pix from Lebrecht Music & Arts

Posted on February 4, 2013 by lebrecht

Maria Callas – outstanding unpublished photos from Lebrecht photographer Brian Seed to celebrate the 90th birth anniversary of Maria Callas, the great opera diva, on 2nd December 1923.

Download at www.lebrecht.co.uk

Maria Callas and Ferrucio Tagliavini during a playback session of a recording they were making of Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor, the second time they had recorded this opera together. EMI were recording the opera in 1959 at the Kingsway Hall, London.

Soprano Maria Callas during a rehearsal of the Donizetti opera Lucie di Lammermoor, Kingsway Hall, London, 1959.

Soprano Maria Callas listening and singing back to recording she had just made of Donizetti’s opera, Lucia di Lammermoor.

Jan 30

Nina Simone 10th death anniversary

Posted on January 30, 2013 by lebrecht

The tenth death anniversary of Nina Simone, the black American singer, songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist, falls on 21st February 2013. She was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, the sixth child of a preacher’s family in North Carolina. She was a classically trained pianist, who made her name in the world of jazz and blues. Her famous songs are legion but include ‘Don’t Let Me be Misunderstood’, ‘Sinnerman’, ‘I Put a Spell on You’.