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George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, British aristocrat, magazine editor and arts administrator, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II died he was , 88.



George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, KBE AM, styled The Hon. George Lascelles before 1929 and Viscount Lascelles between 1929 and 1947, was the elder son of the 6th Earl of Harewood (1882–1947), and Princess Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary. He had a younger brother, The Honourable Gerald Lascelles died he was , 88.. Lord Harewood was the eldest nephew of King George VI and was a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. He succeeded to his father's earldom on 23 May 1947.

(7 February 1923 – 11 July 2011[2])

Early life

George Lascelles was born at his parents' London home of Chesterfield House on 7 February 1923, the first child of Henry Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles and Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, and first grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary, who stood as sponsors at his christening. His christening took place on 25 March 1923 at St Mary's Church in the village of Goldsborough, near Knaresborough adjoining the family home Goldsborough Hall. He served as a Page of Honour at the coronation of his uncle, King George VI, in May 1937. He was educated at Ludgrove School, Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, after which he was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards. He rose to the rank of captain. During World War II, he fought in Italy. The Germans captured and held him as a prisoner of war in Oflag IV-C (Colditz) from 1944 to May 1945. In March 1945 Adolf Hitler signed his death warrant; the SS general commanding the camp, Gottlob Berger, realizing the war was lost, refused to carry out the sentence and released the future earl to the Swiss.[3] In 1945–46, he served as aide-de-camp to his great uncle, Lord Athlone, who was then Governor General of Canada. Lord Harewood served as a Counsellor of State in 1947, 1953–54, and 1956. On 7 February 1956 he took his seat in the House of Lords.[4]

Marriages

On 29 September 1949, Lord Harewood married Marion Stein (originally called Maria Donata Stein when she was born 18 October 1926), a concert pianist and the daughter of the Viennese music publisher Erwin Stein. Their marriage produced three sons:
This marriage ended in divorce in 1967, considered a scandal at the time. Marion went on to marry politician Jeremy Thorpe.
Lord Harewood was married a second time on 31 July 1967 to Patricia "Bambi" Tuckwell (born 24 November 1926), an Australian violinist and sister of the musician Barry Tuckwell. The wedding took place at Waveny Park in New Canaan, Connecticut. A Time magazine article published at the time suggested that the choice of a wedding location outside of England was due to the Church of England's views on divorce.[5] They had one son:
  • Mark Hubert Lascelles (born 4 July 1964 in Marylebone, London). Because he was not born in wedlock, he is ineligible to inherit his father's earldom and not in the line of succession to the throne. He married Andrea Kershaw (born 16 June 1964 in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire) on 8 August 1992 in Harewood;[6] they have three children:
    • Charlotte Patricia Lascelles (born 24 January 1996 in Westminster, London)
    • Imogen Mary Lascelles (born 23 January 1998 in Leeds, West Yorkshire)
    • Miranda Rose Lascelles (born 15 July 2000 in Leeds, West Yorkshire)
The Queen gave her consent to the marriage of Mark Lascelles and Judith Anne Kilburn on 10 May 2011, and the two were married 16 July 2011.[7]

Opera and football

A music enthusiast, Lord Harewood devoted most of his career to opera. He served as editor of Opera magazine from 1950 to 1953 and as director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden from 1951 to 1953 and again from 1969 to 1972. He served as chairman of the board of the English National Opera (ENO) from 1986 to 1995; Managing Director of the ENO from 1972 to 1985; artistic director of the Edinburgh, Adelaide and Leeds Festivals; Managing Director of the ENO offshoot English National Opera North from 1978 to 1981. Lord Harewood served as a governor of the BBC from 1985 to 1987 and as the president of the British Board of Film Classification from 1985 to 1996. He was the author or editor of three books, Kobbé's Complete Opera Book (ed. 1954, now The New Kobbé's Opera Book, edited with Antony Peattie, latest ed. 1997), The Tongs and the Bones (an autobiography, 1981), and Kobbé's Illustrated Opera Book (ed. 1989).
His other interests included football: he served as president of Leeds United Football Club from 1961 until his death and was president of the Football Association from 1963 to 1972.

Official honours

Queen Elizabeth II created him a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1986. On 1 July 2010 he was appointed an honorary Member of the Order of Australia, "for service to the arts in Australia and to supporting Australia's artists in the United Kingdom".[8]

Further information

  • At the time of his birth he was 6th in line to the British throne. At his death, he was 46th.
  • He was the first of nine grandchildren of George V and Queen Mary. He was 21 years older than the youngest grandchild (Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester). He outlived his two royal cousins Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Prince William of Gloucester, and his brother Gerald.
  • He was the oldest cousin of Queen Elizabeth II on George VI's side, but The Hon. John Patrick Bowes-Lyon, Master of Glamis, was the Queen's oldest cousin.
  • He was the only person to serve as Counsellor of State without being a Prince of the United Kingdom, serving from 1945 to 1951, then 1952 to 1956.
  • According to the book "God Save The Queen", written by Alan Michie in 1952, "with the possible exception of Princess Margaret and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, he was probably the only member of the present royal family who could have won recognition in a competitive society where brains count more than breeding". (page 297)
  • He served as chancellor of the University of York from 1962 to 1967.
  • He was a noted friend and colleague of the late opera diva Maria Callas and is featured in the 1968 EMI documentary The Callas Conversations Vol. I, during which he interviewed Callas at length concerning her career and ideas about opera.
  • He was ranked #1355 in the Sunday Times Rich List 2008 with an estimated wealth of £55m—his magnificent art treasures, held in trust and valued at more than £50m, and a 3,000 acres (12 km2) estate outside Leeds. The estate and house, Harewood House, are held by a charity with £9m of assets, and were not counted as part of his wealth.
  • He was the origin of the nickname of the Colditz escaper Dominic Bruce, who for a joke persuaded Lascelles that the average height of Homo sapiens was five feet three inches (Bruce's own height). When Lascelles repeated this he was teased by the other Colditz inmates for his naïveté and Bruce was thenceforth always known as 'The Medium Sized Man'.[citation needed]

Titles

  • The Hon. George Lascelles (7 February 1923 – 6 October 1929)
  • Viscount Lascelles (6 October 1929 – 24 May 1947)
  • The Rt Hon. The Earl of Harewood (24 May 1947–1986)
  • The Rt Hon. The Earl of Harewood, KBE (1986 – 1 July 2010)
  • The Rt Hon. The Earl of Harewood, KBE AM (1 July 2010 – 11 July 2011)

 

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Herbert Matayoshi, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County (1974–1984) died he was , 82

 Herbert Tatsuo Matayoshi was an American politician and businessman died he was , 82. Matayoshi served as the Mayor of Hawaii County from 1974 to 1984.[1][2] He was the third Mayor of Hawaii County, as well as its second elected Mayor overall.[2] Matayoshi was also the longest serving Mayor of Hawaii County to date, holding the office for ten years.

(November 21, 1928 - July 11, 2011)

Biography

Early life

Matayoshi was born on November 21, 1928, in Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii.[1][3] He graduated from Hilo High School in 1946.[4] Matayoshi received in bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1950.[4] He then pursued graduate studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, before completing his Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.[4][5]
Matayoshi worked as a stockbroker by profession.[5]

Political Career

He was elected to the the Hawaii County Board of Supervisors, the predecessor of what would become the Hawaii County Council, in 1962.[1] Matayoshi was elected to the newly created Hawaii County Council in 1968, which he held until becoming Mayor in 1974.[1]

Mayor of Hawaii

In May 1974, Hawaii County's first Mayor Shunichi Kimura resigned following appointment to the 3rd Circuit Court.[4] Kimura's managing director, Bruce McCall, became Mayor following Kimura's resignation until a special election could be held.[4] Herbert Matayoshi, a county councilman at the time, won a special election held a few months later to complete the remainder of the term.[4]
Matayoshi opposed allowing a large number of telescopes at the Mauna Kea Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea.[2] He also fought the construction of the Prince Kuhio Plaza during the 1970s and 1980s, arguing that the shopping mall would siphon away business from stores in downtown Hilo.[2] Matayoshi dealt with controversy over the expansion of Hilo International Airport during his tenure. The expansion of Hilo's runways expanded the airport to the edge of a Hawaiian Homelands settlement, leading to protests from Native Hawaiian groups.[2] He also mediated a dispute between residents and developers on the Kohala Coast, on the northeast portion if the Big Island. Residents and Native Hawaiian advocated had argued that the development to build resorts in the 1970s of Kohala threatened recreational activities enjoyed by locals.[2]
Matayoshi's managing director during portions of his tenure, Jack Keppeler, told the Honolulu Star Advertiser that Matayoshi sought policies to deliver services to island residents, such as fire and police protection, in a fiscally conservative manner.[2] Another former Hawaii mayor, Lorraine Inouye, noted that Matayoshi's background in business obscured his commitment to environmental protection, in the eyes of some observers.[2] Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie credited Matayoshi with implementing many of Hawaii County's major social service programs, including the Elderly Activities Division, championing small businesses and improving the island's infrastructure.[6]
Matayoshi resigned from the mayor's office in 1984, to pursue an unsuccessful candidacy for Hawaii Senate.[1] He lost the state Senate election to Richard Matsuura.[2] His managing director, Megumi Kon, was sworn in to succeed Matayoshi until Dante Carpenter was elected a few months after his resignation.[4]
Herbert Matayoshi died from heart failure at Straub Clinic & Hospital in Honolulu on July 11, 2011, at the age of 82.[1][4] He was survived by his wife, Mary Y. Matayosh; daughter, Kathryn; three sons - Jerold, Ronald and Eric; his sister, Edith Harano; eleven grandchildren and one great grandchild.[1] His daughter, Kathryn Matayoshi, is the superintendent of the Hawaii Department of Education.[2] Another son, Ron Matayoshi, is the the director of international programs at the University of Hawaii's School of Social Work.[3][7] Herbert Matayoshi resided in homes in both Hilo and Kahala, a neighborhood in Honolulu.[2]
Governor Neil Abercrombie ordered all American and Hawaiian flags to be flown at half staff on August 15, 2011, in Matayoshi's honor.[6][8]

 

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Filoimea Telito, Tuvaluan President of the Church of Tuvalu, Governor General (2005–2010), died from a heart attack he was , 66.

Sir Filoimea Telito, GCMG, MBE was a political and religious figure from the Pacific nation of Tuvalu  died from a heart attack he was , 66..

(born 1944/1945, Vaitupu - died 11 July 2011)

Personal life

Pierrette Alarie and Léopold Simoneau had two daughters, Isabelle and Chantal. Simoneau died in 2006. Alarie died in Victoria, British Columbia on July 10, 2011, aged 89, from natural causes.
Sir Filoimea Telito, GCMG, MBE was a political and religious figure from the Pacific nation of Tuvalu.
(born 1944/1945, Vaitupu - died 11 July 2011)

Background

He served as principal of the Motufoua secondary school on Vaitupu island, and was a pastor in the Church of Tuvalu (Ekalesia Klisiano Tuvalu), of which he eventually became the president, a position which he held until his death.[3] In 1996, Telito was honoured for his services to education and the community by being made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).[4]

Governor-General of Tuvalu

On April 15, 2005 he took office as Governor-General of Tuvalu[5] as the representative of HM Queen Elizabeth II, who is Tuvalu's head of state. He stepped down in 2010. In 2007, Telito was made a Knight Grand Cross of Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (GCMG) by Queen Elizabeth II.[1] Herewith he resumed the practice by Governors-General of Tuvalu of accepting a Knighthood, a practice discontinued on a personal basis by his predecessor to that office, Faimalaga Luka.

Death

He died on July 11, 2011 of a heart attack, and was buried in Funafuti three days later. All government activity ceased on the day of the funeral, in a sign of respect.[6]

 

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Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano, wife of tenor Léopold Simoneau died he was , 89.

 Pierrette Alarie, CC, CQ was a French Canadian coloratura soprano died he was , 89. She was married to the French-Canadian tenor Léopold Simoneau.

(November 9, 1921 – July 10, 2011)

Life and career

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Alarie was the daughter of a choirmaster, assistant conductor of the Société Canadienne d'opérettes, and of a soprano and actress. She studied voice and acting early and performed on radio from the age of 9, first as an actress and later as a singer of popular music. While studying voice with Victor Issaurel, she made her debut in 1938 at Les Variétés lyriques in the operetta The White Horse Inn. She also sang Marie in La fille du régiment and the lead role in Mireille. On a scholarship she went to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia to complete her studies with Elisabeth Schumann.
Alarie won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and made her Metropolitan Opera debut on December 8, 1945, as Oscar in Un ballo in maschera under Bruno Walter. She spent three seasons at the Met singing Olympia Les contes d'Hoffmann, Blonchen Die Entführung aus dem Serail, etc.
She married French Canadian tenor Léopold Simoneau in 1946. The two had met in Montréal in the early 1940s. The couple left for France in 1949 where she made her debut at the Opéra Comique in Paris. She sang the lead role in opera such as Les pêcheurs de perles, Lakmé, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Rigoletto. As a team Alarie and Simoneau gained celebrity in Europe and were invited at all the major festivals, Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Edinburgh, as well as major opera houses such as Vienna and Munich.
Alarie also had an important career in North America, appearing in opera and in recital in San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, New Orleans, etc. In Canada, Alarie performed frequently on television, Radio-Canada and CBC. She also performed regularly at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto and the Vancouver Opera. Alarie gave her last performance in Handel's The Messiah with her husband in Montréal, on November 24, 1970.
After retiring from singing, Alarie became active as a teacher, she taught first at the Ecole Vincent d'Indy in Montréal and later at the Banff Centre. She founded with her husband the Canada Opera Piccola in Victoria, British Columbia in 1982.

Honors

In 1959 she received the Calixa-Lavallée Award. In 1967 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1995.[2] In 1997, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Québec.

 

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Travis Bean, American guitar maker, died from cancer he was , 63

 Clifford Travis Bean was an American luthier and machinist from California died from cancer he was , 63.

(21 August 1947 – 10 July 2011)

In 1974, he partnered with Marc McElwee and Gary Kramer to start Travis Bean Guitars, which made high-end electric guitars and basses featuring machined aluminum necks.[1][2] This was an unusual design, departing from more traditional wood necked instruments. The aluminum center section ran through the instrument body, with the pickups directly mounted to the aluminum.[3] The majority of these instruments featured solid koa wood bodies and humbucker pickups. Though praised for their sound, the use of aluminum necks also made Travis Bean guitars heavier than other electric guitars. Models included the Artist, Standard, Wedge (rare), and TB500 (rare) with single coil pickups.
Kramer and Bean parted ways in 1975, with the former starting Kramer Guitars. The first series of Kramer guitars were redesigned aluminum-necked instruments but utilizing wooden inserts along the back of the neck to cut down on weight and provide a more traditional feel; these modifications also avoided patent violations on Travis Bean's original neck design.
Around 3,600 guitars and basses were produced between 1974 and 1979.
In the late 1990s, Bean teamed with master machinist/designer B. Kelly Condon and produced a run of 24 high end, custom instruments. These guitars and basses were aluminum-neck instruments, each machined from a 125 pound billet of 7075 aluminum.[citation needed] The pans weighed just over 4 pounds when finished and all were serial numbered and identified inside of the pan.
A documentary called "Sustain" about Travis Bean guitars and the individuals that built these historic instruments and the players that play them (past and present) was reportedly in development in 2009.[4]

Models

  • TB500 (Budget Model) - 351 produced
  • TB1000S (Standard) - 1422 produced
  • TB1000A (Artist) - 755 produced
  • TB2000 (Standard Bass) - 1020 produced
  • TB3000 (Wedge) - 45 produced
  • TB4000 (Wedge Bass) - 36 produced

Musicians who play or have played the Original Travis Bean guitars and basses

Guitar Players

Bass Players

 

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Frank Mascara, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1995–2003), died from lung cancer he was , 81.

Frank Robert Mascara  was a Democratic politician from Pennsylvania who served four terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003  died from lung cancer he was , 81. He was the uncle of St. Lucie County, Florida Sheriff Ken Mascara.

(January 19, 1930 – July 10, 2011)

Early life and education

Mascara briefly served in the United States Army after World War II and was an accountant before entering politics. He obtained a B.A. from California University of Pennsylvania in 1972.

Early political career

Mascara next served as an elected official in Washington County, near Pittsburgh, for nearly 20 years. He was elected county controller in 1973 and as County Commissioner in 1979. He served on the Washington County Commission for 15 years, many of them as chairman.

U.S. Congressional career

Elections

Before 2000 Census

In 1992, Mascara launched a primary challenge to U.S. Congressman Austin Murphy, a 16-year incumbent, in the 20th Congressional District, which comprised most of the southern suburbs of Pittsburgh. He lost the race by 3,000 votes. When Murphy retired two years later, Mascara handily won the Democratic primary to replace him. Although the 20th was considered the most Democratic district in Pennsylvania outside the districts based in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Mascara earned a narrow victory in the general election against Republican businessman Mike McCormick. Mascara faced the same opponent — and another narrow win — in 1996. However, the district reverted to form afterwards, and Mascara was reelected with little trouble in 1998 and 2000.

After 2000 Census

The Republican-controlled state legislature significantly altered Mascara's district. The district was renumbered as the 18th District, and was considerably more affluent than its predecessor. It was also somewhat friendlier to Republicans, even though there were still 70,000 more registered Democrats in the district than Republicans. A large portion of the area Mascara had represented for the past eight years was shifted to the neighboring Johnstown-based 12th District, represented by 28-year incumbent Democrat John Murtha. The newly drawn district was widely criticized, since portions of several neighborhoods were split between two districts. In some cases, one side of the street was in the 18th while the other was in the 12th; in others, one side of the street was in the 18th while the other was in the Pittsburgh-based 14th. In one of the more extreme examples, most of Mascara's hometown, Charleroi--including most of his neighborhood—was drawn into the 12th. However, a long tendril extending from his house to Allegheny County remained in the 18th. Mascara opted to run against Murtha in the 12th's Democratic primary, since the redrawn 12th contained more of Mascara's old territory than Murtha's. After a bruising primary filled with negative campaigning by both candidates, Murtha won by a wider than expected margin. The 18th was taken over by Republican State Senator Tim Murphy.

[edit] Tenure

In Congress, Mascara was a moderate Democrat who opposed abortion and gun control, but whose voting record was otherwise consistent with the Democratic line. He was regarded as a political powerbroker among Democrats with a record of scoring federal money for local projects.
In both Washington and his home district, Mascara projected a blue-collar, working class image. He liked to say frequently, "I don't go to the nightclubs and big restaurants. ... I don't drink. I don't gamble. I don't whore around."

Death

Mascara died of lung cancer on July 10, 2011 at Mon Valley Hospital in Monongahela, PA.[2]

Electoral history

Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district: Results 1992–2000[3]
Year
Democrat
Votes
Pct
Republican
Votes
Pct
1994
Frank Mascara
95,251
53%
Mike McCormick
84,156
47%
*
1996
Frank Mascara
113,394
54%
Mike McCormick
97,004
46%
*
1998
Frank Mascara
97,885
100%
(no candidate)

*
2000
Frank Mascara
145,131
64%
Ronald J. Davis
80,312
36%
*Write-in and minor candidate notes: In 1994, write-ins received 12 votes. In 1996, write-ins received 4 votes. In 1998, write-ins received 190

 

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Roland Petit, French ballet dancer and choreographer, died from leukemia he was , 87.

 Roland Petit was a French choreographer and dancer born in Villemomble, near Paris, France died from leukemia he was , 87. He trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.

(January 13, 1924 – July 10, 2011)

Biography

Petit trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet school under Gustave Ricaux and Serge Lifar and began to dance with the corps de ballet in 1940. He founded the Ballets des Champs-Élysées in 1945 and the Ballets de Paris in 1948, at Théâtre Marigny, with Zizi Jeanmaire as star dancer; Petit and Jeanmaire wed in 1954.
Petit collaborated with Serge Gainsbourg, Yves Saint-Laurent and César and participated in several French and American films. He returned to the Paris Opéra in 1965 to mount a production of Notre Dame de Paris (with music by Maurice Jarre). He continued to rule ballets for the largest theaters of France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, and Cuba.
In 1968, his ballet Turangalîla provoked a small revolution within the Paris Opéra. Four years later, in 1972, he founded the Ballet National de Marseille with the piece “Pink Floyd Ballet”. He directed the Ballet for the next 26 years. For the décor of his ballets, he would work in close collaboration with the painter Jean Carzou (1907-2000), but also with other artists such as Max Ernst.[citation needed]
Author of more than 50 creations across all genres, he choreographed for a plethora of famed international dancers. He refused the free technical effects; he did not stop reinventing his style, language, and became a master in the arts of pas de deux and of narrative ballet, but he succeeded also in abstract ballets. He collaborated also with the nouveaux réalistes including Martial Raysse, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely.
Le jeune homme et la mort (“The Young Man and Death”) of 1946 (libretto by Jean Cocteau) is considered his magnum opus and it is also his most well-known work; the choreography and the costumes are of astonishing modernity. In his 1949 ballet Carmen, he made an unusual use of the en-dedans, while he gave a non-figurative treatment to Turangalîla.[citation needed]

Personal life

In 1954, Petit married the dancer Zizi Jeanmaire, who performed in a number of his works. His memoirs were published in 1993 under the title J'ai dansé sur les flots (English: I Danced on the Waves). He and Jeanmaire had one daughter, Valentine Petit, a dancer and actress.[1][2][3]

Death

Petit died in Geneva, Switzerland, aged 87, following a battle with leukemia.[4]

Ballets

During his career, Petit choreographed 176 works, including:
  • Guernica (1945)
  • Le jeune homme et la mort (1946)
  • Les forains (1948)
  • Carmen (1949)
  • Ballabile (1950)
  • Le loup (1953)
  • Notre-Dame de Paris (1965)
  • Paradise Lost (1967)
  • Kraanerg (1969)
  • Roland Petit Ballet (1973)
  • Proust, ou Les intermittences du coeur (1974)
  • Coppélia (1975)
  • La symphonie fantastique (1975)
  • Le fantôme de l’Opéra (1980)
  • Les amours de Frantz (1981)
  • The Blue Angel (1985)
  • Clavigo (1999)
  • Les chemins de la création (2004)

 

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