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Friday14th December 2007
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Composer who has died aged 79.
Karlheinz Stockhausen was seen by some as the most important German musician since Wagner, and by others as a charlatan. He was best known for his ground breaking work in electronic music and serial composition and often challenged performers to test the limits of their physical and imaginative capabilities.
Stockhausen wrote over 350 individual works and spent the latter part of his life working on a vast opera cycle called Licht which was divided into episodes named after the days of the week.
His revolutionary approach influenced many rock and jazz artists, including Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Kraftwerk and Pink Floyd.
Conventional classical music opinion was divided. When Sir Thomas Beecham was asked if he’d ever heard any of Stockhausen’s music he replied “No, but I think I once trod in some”.
Karlheinz Stockhausen was born August 22nd 1928. He died December 5th 2007.
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Marit Allen
Fashion editor and film costume designer who has died aged 66
As fashion editor of Vogue magazine, Marit Allen was responsible for some of the most evocative images of the swinging sixties. She used photographers of the moment like David Bailey, Helmut Newton and Cecil Beaton to showcase the latest designers, creating iconic images featuring models like Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy. In 1973, the film director Nicholas Roeg asked her to design costumes for Julie Christie in his film Don’t Look Now and Marit began a career in costume design that spanned around forty films. She worked with Stanley Kubrick on Eyes Wide Shut, with Robin Williams on Mrs Doubtfire and most recently she designed the costumes for the Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose.
Matthew Bannister talks to one of Marit Allen's colleagues at Vogue, Sandy Boler andfilmdirector Ang Lee whom she designedcostumes for Ride with the Devil, Hulk and Brokeback Mountain. There is also a special archive recording from the British Library.
Marit Allen was born September 17th 1941. She died November 26th 2007. |
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Elizabeth Hardwick
Writer and critic who has died aged 91
Elizabeth Hardwick was a writer, a critic and co-founder of the New York Review of Books. She was a member of the city’s literati of the late 1940s and 50s. Her tempestuous marriage to the manic depressive poet Robert Lowell was laid bare in his collection The Dolphin in which he quoted and mis-quoted her letters and phone calls. One critic described it “as one of the most vindictive and mean spirited acts in the history of poetry”.
Diane Roberts, Professor of Literature at Florida State University reflects on the life and work of Elizabeth Hardwick.
Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick was born July 27th 1916. She diedDecember 2nd2007.
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Peter Orton
Television entrepreneur who has died aged 79
Barney the purple dinosauris just one of the children’s TV programmes that made Peter Orton a multi millionaire. His HIT entertainment company was started in 1989 with a £300,000 overdraft. Itwas sold in 2005 for £489 million.HIT was responsible for making and selling around the world series like Bob the Builder, Postman Pat, Brambly Hedge andThomas the Tank Engine.
Peter Orton was born in Portsmouth, the son of a steward on ocean liners. He failed his eleven plus and left technical college aged 17 to work in a tailor’s shop. After a time selling sandals for Scholl, Peter joined a TV sales business called Television International Enterprises where he met the creator of the Muppets Jim Henson. The two men set up Henson International Television and built The Muppets and Fraggle Rock into international brands. When Henson decided to sell his company to Disney, Peter Orton took the opportunity to launch his own children’s TV sales business and hekept the HIT initials.
Matthew Bannister talks to Peter Orton's co-founder of HIT Sophie Turner-Lang, who is now Managing Director of Entertainment at Sky TV and HIT’s former Head of Creative Development Kate Faulkes.
Peter Orton was born June 17th 1943. He died December 5th 2007.
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Ike Turner
Singer, songwriter and rock entrepreneur who has died aged76
Ike Turner was the son of a preacher who ateight years old began dabbling as a DJ at a localradio station. In 1951 he created Rocket 88 who some believe is thevery first rock'n'roll record. The band on the track was Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm.
Ike Turner moved his band to East St Louis in the mid-1950s and began to develop a revue-style show featuring several vocalists. One of these was the teenager Anna Mae Bullock, they married andIke encouraged her to change her name to Tina. He wrote many of her songs.
In Tina Turner's 1986 autobiography, she described how he beat her regularly and burned her with cigarettes. Ike offered his own version in his 2001 autobiography Takin' Back My Name.
Izear "Ike" Luster Turner wasborn November 5th 1931. He died December 12th 2007. |
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