Christiane Legrand, French jazz singer, died she was 81.

Christiane Legrand was a French singer died she was 81..

(21 August 1930 – 1 November 2011^[1] )

Legrand was born in Paris, the daughter of film composer Raymond Legrand, who wrote "Irma la Douce."
She studied piano and classical music from the time she was four. Jazz critic and composer André Hodeir discovered her in 1957, and she became the lead singer in the most notable French jazz vocal groups of the 1960s, including Les Double Six.^[2]
She was the original lead soprano of the Swingle Singers and was the vocalist who dubbed the part of Madame Emery in Les parapluies de Cherbourg, the music for which was composed by her brother Michel Legrand. She also sang the part of Judith in his Les demoiselles de Rochefort.
Christiane did the French dubbing for the title role of Disney's film Mary Poppins (1964) and lent her talents to numerous other film projects.
Christiane was the featured soprano on the track "Fires (Which Burn Brightly)" on the 1973 Procol Harum album Grand Hotel. Her niece Victoria Legrand is a member of the American indie rock group Beach House.


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André Hodeir, 90, French author, jazz arranger and composer, died he was 90.

André Hodeir  was a French violinist, composer, arranger and musicologist died he was 90.

(January 22, 1921 – November 1, 2011^[1])

Biography

André Hodeir was born in Paris. His initial training was as a classical violinist and composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he took Olivier Messiaen's analysis class, and won first prizes in fugue, harmony, and music history. While pursuing these studies, he discovered jazz, and embarked on an exploration of all music forms, jazz as well as classical. Subsequently as a critic he expressed vigorous disgust with nearly all early jazz (Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence; 1957).
Hodeir was a founder, in 1954, and director of Jazz Groupe de Paris, made up of nine musicians, including Bobby Jaspar, Pierre Michelot and Nat Peck. He was the author of two books of Essais (1954 and 1956), of numerous film scores, including Le Palais Idéal by Ado Kyrou, the Jazz Cantata for the film Chutes de pierres, danger de mort by Michel Fano, etc. Hodeir was the founder of his own orchestra during the Sixties (Catalyse, Arte della commedia dell', Transplantation, Crepuscule with Nelly, etc., available in an album by Martial Solal, in 1984). He composed, in 1966, the monumental jazz cantata Anna Livia Plurabelle, on James Joyce's text, and in 1972 of Bitter Ending, by The Swingle Singers and a jazz quintet, on the final monologue of Finnegans Wake.^[2]

Discography

• 1954 : The Vogue Sessions (BMG, R/1999)
• 1956 : Le Jazz Groupe de Paris joue André Hodeir (coll. Jazz in Paris, Universal, R/2001)
• 1957 : The Alphabet et autres essais (not available on CD)
• 1959 : Kenny Clarke's Sextet joue André Hodeir (coll. Jazz in Paris, Universal, R/2002)^[3]
• 1960 : Jazz et jazz (coll. Jazz in Paris, Universal, R/2004)
• 1966 : Anna Livia Plurabelle (second version Patrice Caratini in 1994, Label Bleu)
• 1972 : Bitter Ending (not available on CD)
• 1984 : Martial Solal et son orchestre jouent André Hodeir (Carlyne Music, 1984)

Bibliography

• André Hodeir, Le Jazz, cet inconnu, preface by Charles Delaunay, collection "Harmoniques", Éditions France-Empire, 1945
• Si seulement la vie : nouvelles (2001)
• Les aventures de la chevalière, (1983 historical novel for children)
• La chevalière et le panache blanc, (1983 historical novel for children)
• Le Rire de Swann, ed. Rouge Profond, coll. Birdland, Paris 2006
• Le Joueur de violon (Musikant)
• La Musique depuis Debussy, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1961
• Hommes et problèmes du jazz, Flammarion, Paris, 1954, re-released by Parenthèses, coll. Epistrophy, Paris 1981, 3 printings, then coll. Eupalinos, 2008
• Les Formes de la Musique, Presses Universitaires de France, coll. "Que sais-je ?" n° 478, Paris
• Jazzistiques ed. Parenthèses, coll. Epistrophy, Paris 2004
• Les Mondes du Jazz , ed. Rouge Profond, Paris 2004
• The André Hodeir Jazz Reader, Michigan University Press, 2006
• Pierre Fargeton, Le Jazz comme œuvre composée : le cas d'André Hodeir (2006, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Université Jean-Monnet (Saint-Étienne))
• Christian Tarting, article Hodeir, André (Dictionnaire du jazz, ed. Robert Laffont, coll. Bouquins)

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Sam Fink, American calligrapher, died he was 95.

Sam Fink  was an American calligrapher died he was 95..^[1]

^{(May 27, 1916 – November 1, 2011)}

He created illustrated and inscribed editions of various historically significant American documents. His book, The Constitution of the United States of America, was well received. The art from the book was displayed at a courthouse in Pennsylvania. The opening of this showing at the courthouse was broadcast on the international news channel CNN.
Fink released an illustrated version of the Book of Exodus (hand lettered in English and Hebrew) in September 2007 published by Welcome Books.
Fink was an artist of inimitable range who first learned to hand-letter from his father. After marrying his wife Adele, they raised two sons while he studied at the National Academy and the Art Students' League. For two decades, Fink worked as an art director at Young & Rubicam. Later, he taught at Pratt Institute and made professional contributions to the Lands’ End catalog.
For more than 20 years, Fink educated and entertained adults and children with his illustrated texts of American history. He celebrated his 90th birthday in 2006 with the release of The Constitution of the United States of America (Welcome Books) which had won a Gold IPPY. He also published The Declaration of Independence: The Words that Made America (Scholastic), and Welcome Books published Fink’s full-color edition of The Gettysburg Address in 2007.^[2]


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Gumaa Al-Shawan, Egyptian intelligence agent, died he was 74.

Gumaa Al-Shawan Ahmed Al-Hawan was an Egyptian double agent who worked for the Israeli Mossad from 1967 until 1973 died he was 74.. He provided the Israelis with false military information with the help Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate.^[1]
of the

^{(1 July 1937 – 1 November 2011)}

Biography

Ahmed Al-Hawan was born and raised in Suez. He and his family left after Israel occupied the Sinai Peninsula during the 1967 War. His wife Fatima reportedly lost her eyesight due to an Israeli air strike and they moved to Cairo.

Mossad

When Al-Hawan couldn't find a job in Cairo, he traveled to Greece to earn his living on a ship. He met a woman with whom he fell in love, but who was reportedly a Mossad agent and who convinced him to work at her father's company. There he met an undercover Mossad agent posing as a Syrian who asked Al-Hawan to return to Egypt and gather information regarding the ships that were sailing in the Egyptian channel.^{[citation needed]}

Egyptian Intelligence

Al-Hawan opened a grocery store and began to collect information for his bosses but he soon developed some doubts about their intentions. He went to the headquarters of the General Intelligence Service (GIS) and met with Rais Zakariya (General Mohammed Abdul Salam Al-Mahgoub) whom he informed him about his experiences with the people he worked with. The GIS recruited him to provide the Israelis with false information for the next six years without knowing he was a double agent.

End of Mission

Shortly after the war, Al-Hawan received a letter from the Mossad requesting he come to Tel Aviv.^{[citation needed]} Rais Zakariya persuaded him to travel so that the Mossad agents would supply him with an advanced transmission device that could send messages within six seconds, and the GIS needed that device. Al-Hawan arrived in Rome and received an Israeli passport with a fake name. In Israel he was taught how to use the device and gave him instructions upon his return to Egypt. The Mossad received the following message: "From the Egyptian intelligence to Mossad, thanks for cooperating with our agent Ahmed Al Hawan all these years and supplying him with your transmission devices; see you in future rounds!"^{[citation needed]}

Retirement

In January 1976, while collecting some info for the Mossad under the supervision of the Egyptian intelligence, an army vehicle hit Al-Hawan causing him a major injury in his right leg that he says could have easily been cured, had the doctors been more competent. The injury was followed by damage to the right eye as a result of using invisible ink. He requested retirement which was approved by President Sadat in December 1977.^{[citation needed]}

Popular culture

His story was made into a drama series titled Tears in Insolent Eyes دموع في عيون وقحة starring Adel Emam as Gumaa Al-Shawan.^{[citation needed]}

Death

Ahmed Al-Hawan died on 1 November 2011 at the age of 74 after suffering from an illness. For several months he has been treated at the expense of the armed forces.


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Phyllis Love, American actress (Friendly Persuasion, The Young Doctors), died from Alzheimer's disease he was 85.

Phyllis Love was an American theater and television actress.^[1]

(December 21, 1925 – October 30, 2011)

Career

Throughout the 1950s she acted in Broadway productions and the occasional film. She won the Clarence Derwent Award in 1951 for her role in The Rose Tattoo. On television, she appeared principally in guest roles from 1950 until her retirement in the early 1970s. She also taught English and drama at Morningside High School in Inglewood, California. Love's close friend from high school days in Des Moines, Cloris Leachman, came to Morningside and spoke with the drama students.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Love married James Vincent McGee in 1948 and they divorced in 1978; he died in 1985. She was married to her college sweetheart, Alan Paul Gooding from January 22, 1983 until her death on October 30, 2011 in Los Angeles, California, at age 85.^[2]

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Ram Revilla, Filipino actor, died from being shot and stabbed he was 22.

Ram Revilla, born Ramgen Jose Magsaysay Bautista,^[1] also known as Ramgen Revilla, was a Filipino actor best known for his roles in various Filipino television series including his role as Jeff Gatdula in Tonyong Bayawak.

(12 February 1989 – 29 October 2011)

Personal life

Ram Revilla was born in Imus, Cavite to actor and former Philippine Senator Jose A. Bautista (Ramon Revilla, Sr.) and Genelyn Magsaysay. He is one of 72 children of Revilla Sr. and also a half-brother of actor and incumbent Philippine Senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla, Jr.. Revilla had followed his father's and brother's footsteps, landing roles on television when he was just 14 (under the names Ramboy and Ramgen Revilla).

Death

Ram Revilla was murdered in his home at BF Homes in Parañaque City with his younger sister Ramona and actress girlfriend Janelle Manahan present in the crime scene. Manahan was shot right on her face and survived the surgery. Revilla sustained multiple stab wounds on his body and a gunshot to his chest.^[2]
Primary suspects of his death according to police investigation were his younger siblings Ramon Joseph "RJ" M. Bautista (RJ Revilla), Ma. Ramona Belen "Mara" M. Bautista (Ramona Revilla) and two other friends of the said siblings. RJ and the two hired killers responsible for the murder is now under police custody. Ramona fled and now currently staying in Turkey with her husband while one of the friends of the siblings remains at large. The cause of the alleged sibling rivalry, according to reports, is due to a financial dispute. The police officials declared the case "closed", however the Magsaysay/Bautista/Revilla family insisted to have the whole case re-investigated.

Filmography

• 2004: Anak Ka ng Tatay Mo
• 2005: Exodus: Tales from the Enchanted Kingdom (credited as Ramboy Revilla)
• 2007: Resiklo as Council 3 (credited as Ramgen Revilla)
• 2007: Kamandag as Harn (TV series)
• 2010: Tonyong Bayawak as Jeff Gatdula (TV series - 13 episodes)- Last TV appearance

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Jonas Kubilius, Lithuanian mathematician, died he was 90.

Jonas Kubilius was a Lithuanian mathematician who worked in probability theory and number theory , died he was 90.. He was rector of Vilnius University for 32 years, and served one term in the Lithuanian parliament.^[1][2]

(July 27, 1921 – October 30, 2011)

Life and education

Kubilius was born in Fermos village, Eržvilkas county, Jurbarkas district municipality, Lithuania on July 27, 1921. He graduated from Raseiniai high school in 1940 and entered Vilnius University, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1946 after taking off a year to teach mathematics in middle school.^[3]
Kubilius received the Candidate of Sciences degree in 1951 from Leningrad University.^[4] His thesis, written under Yuri Linnik, was titled Geometry of Prime Numbers.^[3][5] He received the Doctor of Science degree (habilitation) in 1957 from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow.^[4][5]

Career

Kubilius had simultaneous careers at Vilnius University and at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. He continued working at the university after receiving his bachelor's degree in 1946, and worked as a lecturer and assistant professor after receiving his Candidate degree in 1951. In 1958 he was promoted to professor and was elected rector of the university. He retired from the rector's position in 1991 after serving almost 33 years, and remained a professor in the university.^[3]
During the Khrushchev Thaw in the middle 1950's there were attempts to make the university "Lithuanian" by encouraging the use of the Lithuanian language in place of Russian and to revive the Department of Lithuanian Literature. This work was started by the rector Juozas Bulavas, but Stalinists objected and Bulavas was dismissed.^[6]:50–51 Kubilius replaced him as rector and was more successful in resisting pressure to Russify the University: he returned Lithuanian language and culture to the forefront of the University.^[7]:190 Česlovas Masaitis attributes Kubilius's success to "his ability to manipulate within the complex bureaucratic system of the Soviet Union and mainly because of his international recognition due to his scientific achievements."^[3] Kubilius also encouraged the faculty to write research papers in Lithuanian, English, German, and French, as well as in Russian, and he himself wrote several textbooks in Lithuanian.^[3]
In 1952 Kubilius became an employee of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in the Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy Sector. He initially promoted the development of probability theory in Lithuania, and later the development of differential equations and mathematical logic. In 1956 the Physical and Technical Institute was reorganized and Kubilius became head of the new Mathematical Sector.^[5] When he became rector of Vilnius University in 1958 he gave up his duties as head and was succeeded by Vytautas Statulevičius in 1960.^[8] In 1962 he was elected a member of the Academy.^[3] He held a position as Principal Scientific Worker at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics,^[9] which split from the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and is now an independent state scientific institute.^[10]
Kubilius's scientific work was in the areas of number theory and probability theory.^[3] The Turán–Kubilius inequality^[11]:316 and the Kubilius model^[12]:104 in probabilistic number theory are named after him. Eugenijus Manstavičius and Fritz Schweiger wrote about Kubilius's work in 1992, "the most impressive work has been done on the statistical theory of arithmetic functions which almost created a new research area called Probabilistic Number Theory. A monograph devoted to this topic was translated into English in 1964 and became very influential."^[13]:xi (The monograph is Probabilistic Methods in the Theory of Numbers.)
Kubilius organized the first mathematical olympiad in Lithuania in 1951,^[14] and he wrote books of problems for students to use in preparing for the olympiads.^[3] He was a past president of the Lithuanian Mathematical Society.^[3]
In addition to his scientific and administrative work, Kubilius was a member of the Seimas (Lithuanian parliament) from 1992 to 1996.^[15]

Honors and awards

• Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas^[16]

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