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Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:39 pm
by JSC
I was playing his legendary RCA recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring." For my money, the greatest recording ever made of that landmark outside of Stravinsky's own.
That was the first recording I ever heard of
The Rite of Spring. Every subsequent recording or performance has always paled (for me).
Also had the good fortune to see him conduct at Symphony Hall many years ago.
Considering how distinct his appearance was in later years this early 1963 appearance on
What's My Line is very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8u6MoA7fv0
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2024 7:43 am
by beamish14
Robert M. Young, at 99 years of age
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:09 pm
by kuzine
Damo Suzuki
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2024 3:41 am
by Gregor Samsa
kuzine wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:09 pmDamo Suzuki
From the official FB:
It is with great sadness that we have to announce the passing of our wonderful friend Damo Suzuki, yesterday, Friday 9th February 2024.
His boundless creative energy has touched so many over the whole world, not just with Can, but also with his all continents spanning Network Tour. Damo's kind soul and cheeky smile will be forever missed.
He will be joining Michael, Jaki and Holger for a fantastic jam!
Lots of love to his family and children.
We will post funeral arrangements at a later date.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:29 pm
by domino harvey
This happened back in August but hadn't been mentioned here and I only just learned about it, but actress/director Sophie Fillières died in August. Her bizarre, possibly sci-fi comedy
Aïe is def worth seeking out
Navalny
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:00 pm
by Lemmy Caution
Vladimir Putin's #1 enemy, the incredibly brave Alexander Navalny. I was surprised that he returned to Russia after recovering from nerve agent poisoning. He was then promptly arrested and convicted for violating his parole from a previous phony/political fraud conviction. Incredibly cynical for the Russian government to attempt to assassinate a politician/human rights campaigner with military grade poison, then charge him for leaving the country to get life saving treatment. They wanted him either dead or exiled, but he was perhaps recklessly persistent.
After Navalny and his organization exposed Putin's billion dollar estate near Sochi, it was just a matter of time before they offed him. It's believed that he was being slowly poisoned in jail, where his health deteriorated. In December he was moved to a harsh gulag above the Arctic Circle. Rumors were that Putin would receive videos of the guards mistreating Navalny.
Expect silence from Trump and the MAGA crowd. Biden should use the occasion to double down on Ukraine assistance. And underline how Trump and the GOP are Putin toadies. Tighten sanctions on Russia. Europe needs to stop buying one ruble's worth of goods/oil from Russia. Turn over frozen Russian assets to Ukraine as war reparations. And Putin should be made to fear incoming drones of untraceable origin. One Russian human rights journalist summed things up, “they are killing the dream of millions of people to live in a normal country."
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:47 pm
by hearthesilence
Jim Desmond, a close collaborator of D A Pennebaker's who was a cameraman on many of his films, passed away yesterday per social media posts. Unfortunately, his contributions have been poorly documented on IMDB (where they barely list anything at all) but he was one of the camera operators who filmed Hendrix, Janis Joplin and other rock greats in
Monterey Pop, he was one of the camera operators filming Chuck Berry, Little Richard and John Lennon in
Sweet Toronto (and it's likely at least some of his footage wound up in Wim Wenders's
Alice in the Cities and William Klein's
The Little Richard Story), filming David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars in
Ziggy Stardust, Stephen Sondheim and others in
Company (a long cherished film among musical theater aficionados that was finally brought back into circulation by Criterion), Depeche Mode in
Depeche Mode 101, and he even filmed Martin Luther King shortly before he was assassinated.
And also
Steven Wise, an animal rights advocate who was the subject of D A Pennebaker's last film. He founded the Nonhuman Rights Project in 1995 as the “only civil rights organization in the United States dedicated solely to securing rights for nonhuman animals.”
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:50 pm
by MichaelB
Soprano
Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, who had just one film role to her credit - but the title role in
Diva is one hell of a filmography entry in itself.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:52 pm
by swo17
domino harvey wrote: Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:29 pm
actress/director Sophie Fillières
Very limited acting CV but she was in two big Justine Triet films
Re: Navalny
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:43 pm
by Fifo
Lemmy Caution wrote: Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:00 pm
Vladimir Putin's #1 enemy, the incredibly brave Alexander Navalny. I was surprised that he returned to Russia after recovering from nerve agent poisoning. He was then promptly arrested and convicted for violating his parole from a previous phony/political fraud conviction. Incredibly cynical for the Russian government to attempt to assassinate a politician/human rights campaigner with military grade poison, then charge him for leaving the country to get life saving treatment. They wanted him either dead or exiled, but he was perhaps recklessly persistent.
After Navalny and his organization exposed Putin's billion dollar estate near Sochi, it was just a matter of time before they offed him. It's believed that he was being slowly poisoned in jail, where his health deteriorated. In December he was moved to a harsh gulag above the Arctic Circle. Rumors were that Putin would receive videos of the guards mistreating Navalny.
Expect silence from Trump and the MAGA crowd. Biden should use the occasion to double down on Ukraine assistance. And underline how Trump and the GOP are Putin toadies. Tighten sanctions on Russia. Europe needs to stop buying one ruble's worth of goods/oil from Russia. Turn over frozen Russian assets to Ukraine as war reparations. And Putin should be made to fear incoming drones of untraceable origin. One Russian human rights journalist summed things up, “they are killing the dream of millions of people to live in a normal country."
RIP Alexei
https://navalny.eu/
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:37 pm
by otis
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:47 pm
by dadaistnun
Ira von Fürstenberg of
Five Dolls for an August Moon.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:13 pm
by pistolwink
The number of great directors she worked with over her long career is just astounding. Everyone from Fritz Lang to Jacques Rivette. It was a little shocking to remember that the star of
Falbalas and
Diable au corps was still around a few days ago.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:49 am
by GaryC
Pamela Salem on 21 February, aged 80. Surprisingly, many of the obits don't mention her Doctor Who credentials, though this one does - it's actually three stories as she provided a voice for The Face of Evil while in rehearsals for The Robots of Death. Otherwise it's Eastenders and her role as Moneypenny in Never Say Never Again.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2024 3:27 pm
by The Narrator Returns
Buddy Duress
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:23 pm
by colinr0380
Via the Anime News Network,
Mark Merlino, co-founder (with Fred Patten) of both the first anime club in North America, the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization in 1977, as well as one of the main figures responsible for beginning the Furry subculture through organising the
"ConFurence" events from 1989 to 2003.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:16 pm
by hearthesilence
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:20 pm
by Blutarsky
Incredibly sad, especially as the last
Curb season is underway. One of the great comedians, and his performance on
Curb is easily my favorite. I always sing his song about getting coffee from the famous Latte Larry’s/Mocha Joe’s season.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:26 pm
by hearthesilence
I haven't followed Curb lately but I was surprised to see him in Bogdanovich's Squirrels to the Nuts which I hope gets a release soon - it's been nearly two whole years since it played at MoMA.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:07 am
by therewillbeblus
Blutarsky wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:20 pm
Incredibly sad, especially as the last
Curb season is underway. One of the great comedians, and his performance on
Curb is easily my favorite.
Larry David's on-brand but ultimately touching statement:
Richard and I were born three days apart in the same hospital and for most of my life he’s been like a brother to me. He had that rare combination of being the funniest person and also the sweetest. But today he made me sob and for that I’ll never forgive him.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:56 pm
by Fiery Angel
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:14 pm
by willoneill
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:42 pm
by beamish14
His privatization push had horrible consequences
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:24 pm
by knives
Just as the Radiance began to pour out. Hard to get upset when someone is that old and successful, but the idea of a definitive limit on the Tavianis is a bummer.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:08 pm
by MichaelB
It's pretty extraordinary that there was one final Taviani film after Vittorio's death, and Paolo was already ninety when Leonora Addio came out.
But yes, as you say, it's hard to get too upset about someone dying in his nineties after a quite incredible career - his film output in toto spanned 1954-2022 and his feature output a full sixty years, with no particularly noticeable gaps. Even post-2010 he still managed to make four features, including a Berlin Golden Bear winner.
I was hoping to catch the onstage Q&A in London, but it was mysteriously cancelled, and sadly it's now obvious why.