Jack Hayes, American composer and orchestrator (The Color Purple, The Unsinkable Molly Brown), died from natural causes he was 92.

Jack J. Hayes was an American composer and orchestrator  died from natural causes he was 92..


 (February 8, 1919 – August 24, 2011)

Although he was a fine composer and conductor in his own right, Hayes spent most of his career as an orchestrator: A highly trained musician who takes a composer's sketches (maybe six or eight staves of music) and expands them into a full score (anywhere from 20-plus to 40-plus staves), essentially every note that a symphony orchestra needs in order to perform a piece of music.

In the hectic world of film music, it's a service that has always been needed, a craft that goes back to the earliest days when films were turned over to a composer so late – often with release dates looming – that there was no time for the composer to do his own orchestrations. This was true even in the 1930s for the great Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who relied on Hugo Friedhofer to take his detailed sketches and turn them into fully symphonic scores.

Jack Hayes performed this service for dozens of composers, from Alfred Newman to Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini to Quincy Jones, Marvin Hamlisch to Randy Newman, John Morris to Michael Giacchino – a who's-who of Hollywood composers who relied on Hayes (and, from 1955 to 1976, Hayes' partner Leo Shuken) to help them meet impossible deadlines.

"Talk to anybody, particularly orchestrators, and they'll tell you that he's one of the most respected guys ever," says Randy Newman, who employed Hayes on Ragtime, The Natural, Avalon and several other films in the 1980s and 1990s. "I learned more from him than any single person. Whoever's second is a long way off."

Hayes "worked on my very first film, The Swimmer," Marvin Hamlisch recalled this week. "He conducted that film, but he was also very helpful in showing me how to eventually conduct for a film. But he did it in a very quiet way which I thought was fabulous. He and Leo Shuken did so much for so many." Their orchestration work for him also included The Way We Were and Sophie's Choice, Hamlisch said.

"He listened to composers and knew what composers wanted – but many times embellished it in a way that was in keeping with the composer's wishes but giving it much more in terms of color," Hamlisch added. "I loved him."

Peter Bernstein recalled Hayes' work for his father, Elmer Bernstein: "From The Ten Commandments until the mid-1970s, he worked on just about everything my father wrote. Jack was so unflappable and so fast, and his work always sounded so complete." Hayes and Shuken orchestrated numerous Bernstein classics including The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Escape and Hawaii.

William Ross, who orchestrated and arranged for other composers for years before becoming better known as a film composer, said: "I used to call Jack to get his thoughts on how to proceed with the orchestration of a certain passage or texture. He was always very generous with his knowledge, and the time it took to share that knowledge. So often we would end our discussions having gone over several possible ways to proceed. He was a wonderfully humane mix of humility, courtesy and kindness."

Jack Hayes also worked regularly with a number of other notable composers. Peter Bernstein cited one incident on a scoring stage when his father and some unnamed, difficult director were in a heated discussion about the direction of a score. Peter turned to Hayes, who was completely focused on writing an orchestration, and asked which cue of his father's Jack was working on. Hayes looked up. "This is something for Mancini." And back he went, right to it, "oblivious to the tumult occurring a few feet away," said an amused Bernstein. Hayes (with Shuken) orchestrated such Mancini classics as Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses and Hatari!.

Giacchino was Hayes' last regular employer. "Rarely in life are you given the opportunity to learn from a true master," Giacchino said. "Jack not only demonstrated a mastery of his craft, but also showed us the qualities of a true gentleman." Hayes contributed orchestrations to The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Up, among other Giacchino films.

Hayes tackled large projects and small. For composer Bob Cobert, he orchestrated two of the longest, most complex television miniseries ever made, The Winds of War and War & Remembrance. For John Morris, he lent his expertise to such features as High Anxiety and The Elephant Man. For the legendary Alfred Newman, he (and Shuken) orchestrated The Greatest Story Ever Told, Nevada Smith and Airport.

Quincy Jones called on Hayes and Shuken to orchestrate In Cold Blood and Cactus Flower; years later he asked Hayes to join his musical team on The Color Purple and Hayes wound up with one of his two Academy Award nominations. Burt Bacharach brought them to London for Casino Royale and then, back in Hollywood, hired them to orchestrate Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Lost Horizon. When an ailing Bernard Herrmann needed someone to conduct his last score, Taxi Driver, he asked for Jack Hayes.

Society of Composers & Lyricists president Dan Foliart encountered Hayes at Paramount in the early 1980s, "where Jack was active in many of the successful series of that era. Jack's craft became immediately apparent to me, with his masterful orchestrations and the lively spirit embodied in his original compositions that are still playing to this day."

Indeed, Hayes' own original scores tend to be forgotten in all the talk about the many film classics to which he contributed. During the heyday of original music for TV, Shuken and Hayes – on rare weeks off – often wrote Western scores, a genre with which they were quite familiar. They penned numerous episodes of Riverboat, Wagon Train, The Virginian and Gunsmoke among other shows. Hayes also penned a number of classical works including a string quartet, trumpet concerto and two-piano rhapsody.

Hayes was among the most modest and self-effacing of the great Hollywood musical craftsmen, often fending off stories that he and Shuken were really responsible for many of these scores. "It's rumor-mongering and it isn't fair to the composer," he said in a rare interview in 1986. "All the people I've worked with write their own music and each offers a very distinct, unique talent that makes a score what it is."

Hayes attended the San Francisco Conservatory but, as he once told Randy Newman, he was thrown out because "they would harmonize these Bach chorales and at the end he would put in a Hawaiian sixth chord. He was determined to have his joke. Jack is right up there with the best orchestrators there have ever been. We had a lot of laughs, and they weren't just about my voice leadings."

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Clare Hodges, British campaigner for the medical use of cannabis, died from multiple sclerosis she was 54.

Clare Hodges , also known as Elizabeth Brice, was an activist in advancing the medical understanding and campaigning for widespread benefit of cannabis as a therapeutic medicine in the UK died from multiple sclerosis she was 54... Clare Hodges is the pseudonym that Elizabeth Brice used, Clare being her middle name and Hodges her mother's maiden name.

(6 July 1957 – 23 August 2011)

She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) at age 26 but it was nearly 10 years before she tried cannabis to alleviate the symptoms. Hodges found that cannabis greatly alleviated her condition. It was this that motivated her to become an avid campaigner.
Consequently Hodges founded the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT) in 1992 with two other patients. The ACT worked to provide advice and assistance to other MS suffers and individuals with other medical conditions which might benefit from the use of cannabis.
Hodges took the matter to the House of Lords in 1998 where she spoke about the benefits she had found from the therapeutic use of this illicit drug. She stated "Cannabis helps my body relax. I function and move much easier. The physical effects are very clear. It is not just a vague feeling of well-being".^[1]
Despite the backing of several members of the House of Lords, and Austin Mitchell MP, the ACT was unable to change the law in the UK with regards to the use of cannabis. Hodges later went on to join the Board of Directors of the International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines (IACM) as a patient representative ^[2]
Nonetheless, Hodges worked with Dr William Notcutt to ensure GW Pharmaceuticals took up the issue and as a result Sativex is now available as an alternative.
She also addressed the European Parliament in Brussels following which the law was change in Belgium.^[3]
Due to deteriorating health as a result of her MS, Hodges handed over the articles and patient transcripts to the Wellcome Trust in 2009.

Personal life

Hodges was born in Manchester. She studied Latin and Greek at Somerville College, Oxford. She then went on to pursue a career in medical journalism, first writing for a newspaper for doctors before becoming a producer at Yorkshire Television working on a number of medical documentaries, including several with Dr Miriam Stoppard.
Hodges was married to Duncan Dallas, founder of Café Scientifique, and has two sons.


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Sybil Jason, American child actress, died she was 83.

Sybil Jason  was a motion-picture child actress who, in the late 1930s, was presented as a rival to Shirley Temple died she was 83.

(23 November 1927 – 23 August 2011)

Career

Born as Sybil Jacobson in 1927 in Cape Town, South Africa, she began playing the piano at age two and, a year later, began making public appearances doing impersonations of Maurice Chevalier. She was introduced to the theatre-going public of London by way of her uncle, Harry Jacobson, a then-popular London orchestra leader and also pianist to Gracie Fields. The apex of her career came with a concert performance with Frances Day at London's Palace Theatre. Jason's theatre work led to appearances on radio and phonograph records, and a supporting role in the film Barnacle Bill (1935).
Irving Asher, the head of Warner Bros.' London studio, saw Jason's performance in Barnacle Bill and subsequently arranged for her to make a screen test for the studio. The test was a success, resulting in Warner Bros. signing her to a contract. Her American film debut came as the lead in Little Big Shot (1935), directed by Michael Curtiz and co-starring Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong, and Edward Everett Horton. Jason followed this with supporting roles opposite some of Warner Bros. most popular stars, including Kay Francis in I Found Stella Parish (1935), Al Jolson in The Singing Kid (1936), Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart in The Great O'Malley (1937), and again with Kay Francis in Comet Over Broadway (1938). Warners also starred her in The Captain's Kid (1937), and four Vitaphone two-reelers filmed in Technicolor: Changing of the Guard, A Day at Santa Anita, Little Pioneer, and The Littlest Diplomat.
Jason, however, never became the major rival to Shirley Temple that Warner Bros. had hoped for and, her film career ended after playing two supporting roles at 20th-Century Fox. Ironically, these films — The Little Princess (1939) and The Blue Bird (1940) — were in support of Temple, who became her life-long friend.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

On 31 December 1947 Jason married Anthony Drake, who died in 2005.^[3] Their daughter, Toni, is married to Phillip W. Rossi, producer of The New Price is Right.

Legacy

• Sybil Jason was an active member in the International Al Jolson Society and also made frequent appearances at celebrity shows throughout the United States.

• Her autobiography, My Fifteen Minutes: An Autobiography of a child star of the Golden Era of Hollywood, was published in 2005. She also authored a stage musical entitled Garage Sale.

• In 1983 a Sybil Jason Fan Club was established in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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David Lunn-Rockliffe, British businessman co-founder of the River and Rowing Museum, died from heart failure he was 86.

David Lunn-Rockliffe  was a British businessman, rowing supporter, and co-founder of the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, England died from heart failure he was 86..




(28 December 1924 – 23 August 2011)

Lunn-Rockliffe was the youngest son of an English father, a doctor, and Swiss mother.^[1] He was brought up near Winchester in Hampshire, southern England. He was educated at Stowe School and Jesus College, Cambridge, reading land economy, with a break between to serve with the Worcestershire Regiment in Burma during World War II. He started working as a dairy farmer in Hampshire, before becoming a development officer at the Institute for Corn and Agricultural Merchants. He later worked in the paint industry.
Lunn-Rockliffe was Executive Secretary of the Amateur Rowing Association (now known as British Rowing) in the United Kingdom from 1976 until 1987, overseeing the move towards a more professional organization.^[3] He was then central to the foundation of the River and Rowing Museum in Henley, opened by Queen Elizabeth II in November 1998.^[4] He took charge of negotiating a site close to the River Thames with Henley Town Council, engaging the architect David Chipperfield to design the award-winning museum building, and obtaining planning permission together with major sponsorship from the locally-based businessmen Martyn Arbib and Urs Schwarzenbach.
David Lunn-Rockcliffe married Elizabeth Capron in 1950 and they lived in Wimbledon followed by Surbiton, both in southwest London. They had five daughters and she died in 2001 after they moved to Exeter in Devon.

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June Wayne, American artist and print maker, died she was 93.

June Claire Wayne was an American printmaker, tapestry designer, painter, and educator died she was 93.. She founded the Tamarind Lithography Workshop.

  (March 7, 1918 Chicago, Illinois – August 23, 2011 Los Angeles, California)

Early life and career

Wayne was born in Chicago in 1918 to Dorothy Alice Kline and Albert Lavine, but the marriage ended shortly after Wayne's birth and she was raised by her single mother and grandmother. ^[2] Wayne had aspirations to be an artist and dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen to pursue this goal.^[3] Although she did not have formal artistic training, she began painting and had her first exhibition at the Boulevard Gallery in Chicago in 1935.^[1][2] Only seventeen at the time, Wayne exhibited her watercolors under the name June Claire.^[4] She exhibited work again the following year at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.^[3] By 1938, she was employed as an artist for the WPA Easel Project in Chicago.^[3]
In 1939, Wayne moved to New York, supporting herself as a jewelry designer by day and continuing to paint in her time off.^[3] She married Air Force surgeon George Wayne in 1940, and in 1942 he was deployed to serve in the European theater of World War II.^[5] While George was in Europe, June first moved to Los Angeles and learned Production Illustration at Caltech, where she received training that helped her find work converting blueprints to drawings for the aircraft industry.^[3][4] She then moved to Chicago and worked as a writer for the radio station WGN, moving back to Los Angeles with George when he returned to the united States in 1944.^[5] The couple divorced in 1960, but the artist continued to use "June Wayne" as her professional identity for the rest of her life.^{[3] [6][4]}
When World War II ended, Wayne returned to Los Angeles and became an integral part of the California art scene. While continuing to paint and exhibit, she took up lithography in 1948 at Lynton Kistler’s facility, initially producing lithographs based on her paintings and then developing new imagery in her lithographs.^[5] In the late 1950s, Wayne traveled to Paris to collaborate with French master printer Marcel Durassier, first on lithographs illustrating the love sonnets of English poet John Donne and then on an artist's book also based on Donne's poetry.^{[4] [5]} Wayne ultimately produced 123 copies of the finished book, one of which gained Wayne the support of Wilson MacNeil "Mac" Lowry, director of the arts and humanities programs at the Ford Foundation.^[5]

Tamarind Lithography Workshop

When Wayne met with Lowry in the late 1950s, she expressed her frustration about having to go to Europe to find collaborators for her lithography projects and Lowry suggested that she submit a proposal to the Ford Foundation seeking money to revitalize lithography in the U.S.^[5][3] With the foundation's assistance, Wayne opened the Tamarind Lithography Workshop (named for its street location in Hollywood), in 1960.^[4] Wayne acted as director, supported by the painter and printmaker Clinton Adams in the role of associate director and Garo Antreasian in the role of master printer and technical director. ^[7]
Artists were invited to do short residencies at Tamarind, when they would work with master printers to produce lithographs.^[5] Some artists, like Tamarind's first artist-in-residence, Romas Viesulas, already had experience as print makers, while others who came to Tamarind, such as Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis, Rufino Tamayo, Louise Nevelson, Philip Guston and Joseph and Anni Albers had worked primarily in other media.^{[4] [5]}
In 1970, Wayne resigned as director and the workshop moved to the University of New Mexico where, as the Tamarind Institute, it continues today.^[7]

Tapestry Design

Encouraged by friend Madeleine Jarry, an author and expert on tapestry, Wayne began designing tapestries in France at the famed Gobelins factory.^{[8] [5]} In the tapestry designs, Wayne continued to express her fascination with the connections between art, science, and politics, often creating designs based on images she had initially produced in other media.^[5]

Involvement in the Feminist Art Movement

Wayne was also involved in the Feminist Art Movement in California in the 1970s. Perhaps her biggest contribution to the movement was in education, as Wayne taught a series of professionalization seminars entitled "Joan of Art" to young women artists beginning around 1971.^[9] Wayne's seminars covered various topics related to being a professional artist, such as pricing work and approaching galleries,^[10] and involved role-playing and discussion sessions.^[9] They also encouraged giving back to the feminist community since graduates of Wayne's seminars were required to then teach the seminars to other women.^[9] Artist Faith Wilding wrote in 1977 that upon interviewing many of Wayne's former students, "all agreed that it had made a tremendous difference in their professional lives and careers, that in fact, it had been the turning point for some of them in making the step from amateur to professional."^[9]
Along with fellow artists Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Ruth Weisberg, and others, Wayne was a founding member of the Los Angeles Council of Women in the Arts, which sought the equal representation of women artists in museum exhibitions.^[11] She was also part of the selection committee for the exhibition Contemporary Issues: Works on Paper by Women, which opened at the Los Angeles Woman's Building in 1977 and featured the works of over 200 women artists.^[12]

Exhibitions and Awards

In 1982, Wayne was among the first recipients of the Vesta award, a newly-created annual award the Los Angeles Woman's Building bestowed on women who had made outstanding contributions to the arts.^[13] In the 1990s, Wayne won the Art Table Award for Professional Contributions to the Visual Arts, the International Women's Forum Award for Women Who Make a Difference, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from both the Neuberger Museum of Art and LA ArtCore.^[5] In 2003, she was honored with the Zimmerli Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Art Association and in 2009 received awards from three institutions--the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, and the Roski School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California--as well as commendations from the City of West Hollywood and Los Angeles County.^[5] She has also been awarded honorary doctorates from the Rhode Island School of Design, Moore College of Art and Design, California College of Arts and Crafts, and The Atlanta College of Fine Arts.^[3]
Wayne’s art has been exhibited all over the world and is part of several museum collections, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Norton Simon Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.^{[14][15][16][17]}

Final Years

In 2002, Wayne became a research professor at the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper.^[18] Wayne also donated a group of over 3,300 prints, both her work and the work of other artists, to the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, which established the June Wayne Study Center and Archive to house the collection.^[18]Wayne died at her Tamarind Avenue studio in Hollywood on August 23, 2011 with her daughter Robin Claire Park and granddaughter Ariane Junah Claire by her side.^[5]
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Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, Libyan-born Afghan Al-Qaeda leader, died from predator drone he was 40.

Atiyah Abd Al Rahman was reported by the US State Department to be a senior member of al-Qaeda and a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and Ansar al-Sunna died from predator drone he was 40.. His name may be rendered in English as Atiyah Abdur-rahman or Atiyah Abdul-Rahman or in other ways.

1970 – August 22, 2011

He was killed in Pakistan by a CIA predator drone strike on August 22, 2011.^[3]
Atiyah Abd Al Rahman is thought^[4] to be the "Atiyah" who wrote a commanding letter^[5] to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in December 2005. The State Department announcement said that Abd Al Rahman:

• Was a Libyan in his early 40s (which puts his date of birth roughly at 1970).
• Was based in Iran, representing al-Qaeda to other Islamist terrorist groups.
• Was appointed to that role by Osama bin Laden.
• Met bin Laden while still in his teens.
• Fled the Republic of the Congo alongside bin Laden as recently as 2001.

The State Department's Rewards for Justice offered up to US$1 million for information about him.^[6] However, the program no longer has him listed as a wanted terrorist.^[2]
With the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011, amidst confusion, including over who would succeed bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri, he was eventually designated as Al Qaeda's second in command.
Atiyah had volunteered to travel to Afghanistan to fight against its Soviet occupiers in the 1980s, while he was still a teenager.^[7] He was reported to have met and served under Osama bin Laden at that time. The Washington Post reported that another prominent Libyan exile, Noman Benotman, he was sent to Algeria in the 1990s to serve as an envoy to a group they said was then known as the Armed Islamic Group (GIA). He told the Washington Post that the GIA was suspicious of him, held him captive for months, and were considering killing him. He escaped with other captives, after five months of captivity, and, according to Benotman, "He had a very bad experience, and I think is still having nightmares about it."
According to reports by a senior Obama administration official, he was killed by a CIA drone on August 22, 2011.^[8][9] Zawahiri confirmed the death of al-Rahman in a video on December 1, 2011.^[10] Al-Rahman was previously reported dead in October 2010.^[11]

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Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani, Yemeni politician, Prime Minister (1994–1997), died he was 72.

Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani was a Yemeni politician who served as Prime Minister of Yemen from 1994 to 1997, under President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Ghani was a member of the General People's Congress party  died he was 72..
Ghani also served as Vice President of the Yemen Arab Republic and as the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic twice. His first term was from 1975 to 1980, and his second term was from 1983 to unification in 1990.^[1]

(2 January 1939 – 22 August 2011)

Abdul Ghani was the president of the Consultative Council from 2003 until his death in 2011.
He studied political science in the USA at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, and invited Professor Fred Sonderman of that college to visit Yemen in November 1977.^[2]
He died in Saudi Arabia on 22 August 2011 from injuries suffered in a June assassination attempt on President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a government official with Saleh in Riyadh said.
Abdulaziz Abdulghani is the first senior political figure to have died from the explosion in Saleh's palace mosque which forced the president and a number of his aides to seek medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.


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