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Jun 27

Obituary pictures from Lebrecht – NORA EPHRON

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NORA EPHRON, American author, screenwriter and director has died aged 71. She was the author of romantic comedies and was a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for three films: Silkwood, When Harry met Sally, and Sleepless in Seatle.

Her second husband was journalist Carl Bernstein who was involved in exposing Watergate while on the staff of The Washington Post. Nora Ephron was expecting her second son in 1979 when she found out that Bernstein was having an affair with their mutual friend, the married British politician Margaret Jay, daughter of JamesCallaghan, former British Prime Minister. These events inspired her to write the 1983 humorous novel Heartburn. Both of her parents were screenwriters and she was fond of quoting her mother who would always try and turn difficult situations around by saying “Everything is copy”. Nora Ephron did these supremely successfully.

19 May 1941 – 26 June 2012

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Nora Ephron at Book Expo America 2007 where she was promoting her book ‘I Feel Bad About My Neck’.
© Miriam Berkley/Lebrecht Music & Arts


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Jun 27

DE AGOSTINI Picture Library at Lebrecht Music & Arts

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Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library continues its expansion with our new representation of the famous and vast Italian De Agostini archives.

This archive is a treasure trove of historical images relating to prehistoric arts, ancient Egypt, world heritage sites and archaeology, literature, history, decorative arts, fashion, paintings and sculpture and much more related to the context of our core themes of music, literature and history in world culture.

To see more go to www.lebrecht.co.uk and search under De Agostini.


Egypt – Ancient Thebes (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1979).
© De Agostini/Lebrecht Music & Arts


Chile, Easter Island. Rapa-Nui National Park.
© De Agostini/Lebrecht Music & Arts


Prehistory, Russia, 8th century B.C. Bronze rhyton. From Caucasus.
© De Agostini/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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Jun 22

New book : Circles Within Circles

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Lloyd Wolf, Lebrecht Music & Arts photographer, has created a beautiful and meaningful artist’s book. Circles Within Circles: Jewish Time Frames.

It combines his photographic collage and conceptually-based images with the poetry and prayers of his collaborator, poet Sherri Waas Shunfenthal.

You can see this book on Lloyd Wolf’s blog at http://tinyurl.com/circlesbook


Shofar / ram’s horn
© Lloyd WOLF/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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Feb 16

Bespoke 2012 anniversary collages

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Lebrecht Music & Arts is always thinking of ways to help our clients. This year we have created bespoke anniversary collages designed by our graphic artists for the major music and literary anniversaries of 2012. They are ready to use as covers, title pages, concert posters.

Literary figures include Lewis Carrol, JM Barrie, Charles Dickens, and Arthur Schnitzler.

Music anniversaries include Claude Debussy, Jules Massenet, Carl Orff, Maurice Ravel, Jean Francaix, Jacques Fromental Halevy.

 

If you think there is someone we have forgotten let us know.

 

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Nov 11

November and December 2011 anniversary pictures

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Lebrecht Music & Arts brings you images for the final anniversaries of 2011

November
21 November 1811 – 200th death anniversary of Heinrich von Kleist, German poet and novelist
30 November 1986 – 25th death anniversary of Cary Grant, American-British actor

December
3 December 1911 – 100th birth anniversary of Nino Rota, Italian composer, famous for score of Godfather trilogy.
5 December 1911 – 100th birth anniversary of Wladyslaw Szpilman, Jewish-Polish pianist made famous in Polanski’s film ‘The Pianist’.
11 December 1911 – 100th birth anniversary of Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel Prize winner
11 December 1911 – 100th anniversary of Marie Curie being awarded her second Nobel prize
23 December 1911 – 100th anniversary of the opening of Stanislavski and Craig’s production of Hamlet in Moscow
25 December 1886 – 125th birth anniversary of Kid Ory, Jazz trombonist and bandleader.

Click on the links above or search online at www.lebrecht.co.uk for more images.

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