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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Sadao Bekku, Japanese composer, died from pneumonia he was 89.

Sadao Bekku , was a Japanese classical composer died from pneumonia he was 89.. He was born in Tokyo. His works include five symphonies, film scores, a flute sonata, a piano concerto, choral work and art songs, and the opera, Prince Arima.

(別宮貞雄 Bekku Sadao?, May 24, 1922 – January 12, 2012)

His work took strong influence from jazz. His most famous works include the film score, Matango (1963).
Bekku died on January 12, 2012, at the age of 89.[1]

Major works

Opera

  • A Story of Three Women (Le dit des trois femmes) (1964)
  • Prince Arima (Arima-no Miko) (1963–67)

Orchestral works

  • Deux mouvements pour orchestre (1946)
  • Suite classique (1947)
  • Introduction et Allegro (1954)
  • Deux prières (1956)
  • Symphonietta for String Orchestra (1959)
  • Symphony No. 1 (1961)
  • Concerto pour violon et orchstre (1969)
  • Concerto pour alto et orchestre (1971)
  • Symphony No. 2 (1977)
  • Concerto pour piano et orchestre (1980)
  • Festival Overture (1981)
  • Symphony No. 3 "Spring" (1984)
  • Memories of Pictures: Suite for Wind Band (1987/2005)
  • March "Be Pure, Be Fresh" for wind orchestra (1988)
  • Symphony No. 4 "The Summer 1945" (1989)
  • Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre "Autumn" (1997)
  • Symphony No. 5 "Man" (1999)

Chamber works

  • Trio d'anches for bassoon, oboe and clarinet (1953)
  • Sonate pour flûte et piano (1954)
  • Suite japonaise Nr. 1 for wind quintet (1955)
  • Quatuor à cordes Nr. 1 (1955–57)
  • 1er sonate pour violon et piano (1963–67)
  • Sonate pour violoncelle et piano (1974)
  • Aubade for flute, violin and piano (1976)
  • Suite "Chants de ville" for alto saxophone and piano (1981)
  • Petit pastoral for flute and piano (1983)
  • 《Hide and Seek》 and 《Tag》: Two Players for Two Marimbas (1988)
  • Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1995)
  • Kaleidoscope No. 2 for marimba (2002)
  • Autumn for violoncello and piano (2004)

Piano works

  • Sonatine (1965)
  • Suite "Kaleidescope" (1966)
  • Three Paraphrases Based on Folksongs of Southern Japan (1968)
  • Sonatine in Classical Style (1969)
  • Festa in the north: Japanese Suite No. 2 for piano by 4 hands (1989)

Vocal works

  • Light-coloured Pictures for voice and piano (1948)
  • 2 Rondels for voice and piano (1951)
  • Three Songs Based Man-yō-shū poems (1958)
  • Giant's Garden for narrator, mixed choir, orchestra and electronic sound (1962)
  • The Four Seasons of the Mountain for mixed choir (1967)

Film music

Bekku composed about 40 film scores from 1954 to 1978.[2]



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Talaat Sadat was an Egyptian politician, lawyer and former political prisoner died he was 57

Talaat Sadat was an Egyptian politician, lawyer and former political prisoner. He was the nephew of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat died he was 57.[1]

(1954 – 20 November 2011)


Arrest

Talaat was arrested on 4 October 2006 after giving an interview in which he implicated Egyptian military forces in his uncle's 1981 assassination.[2] His trial by military authorities ended on 31 October with a conviction for defaming the Egyptian armed forces, resulting in a one year prison sentence.[3] His arrest and conviction was criticized by the United States State Department.[3]

Political career

Following the Egyptian Revolution 2011, even though he was in demonstrations calling for dissolution of the National Democratic Party for its corruption of Egyptian political life, he was selected as the party's new chairman following the resignation of Former Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak from the party.[2]
However, on 16 April 2011, the NDP was dissolved by the courts and its assets were ordered to be handed over to the government.[4] Then he began to establish the Egypt National Party shortly before his death.[5]

Death

He died on 20 November 2011 at 10 AM of a heart attack at the age of 57 at National Commercial Bank hospital in Alqutamya.[2

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Karl Aage Præst, Danish football player, died he was 89.


Karl Aage Præst, also spelled Carl Aage Præst,  was a Danish football player died he was 89.. Playing in the left winger position, Præst won two Serie A championships with Italian club Juventus FC. He played 24 games and scored 17 goals for the Danish national team from 1945 to 1949, and won a bronze medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He is a Danish Football Hall of Fame inductee.

(26 February 1922 – 20 November 2011)

Biography

Born in Copenhagen,[4] Karl Aage Præst attended the Royal Orphanage.[5] The orphanage became the youth team of football club Østerbros Boldklub (ØB) in 1936, and Præst was among the first boys to join ØB. In his second year in the ØB youth team, Præst scored 57 goals in 16 games.[5] He made his senior debut in 1940.[5] At ØB, he played alongside later Danish international Helge Broneé. Præst was acknowledged as a world-class talent, with great balance and dribbling, and a great end-product of either precise crossing or a good shot on goal.[6] Præst played around 250 games while at ØB.[5]
He became internationally known through international exhibition games for Danish representative teams Stævnet and Alliancen,[5] and made his debut for the Denmark national football team in June 1945.[2] In May 1947, he was selected for the Europe XI representative team, which lost 1-6 to the Great Britain national football team.[5] Præst was a part of the Danish team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where Præst played four games and scored two goals as Denmark won a bronze medal.[7] After the Olympics, Præst signed a professional contract with Italian club Juventus FC, and was thus banned from the amateur-only Danish national team.
With Juventus, Præst won the 1949-50 and 1951-52 Serie A championships. Though considered fast in Denmark, Præst was not as fast as most Italian defenders, but succeeded through his dribbling skills.[6] Præst played alongside Danes John Hansen and Karl Aage Hansen at Juventus, and his dribbling and crossing ability was a key in making John Hansen top goal-scorer of the 1951-52 season.[6] Præst played 239 games and scored 51 goals for Juventus FC in the Serie A championship from 1949 to 1956.[1] In 1956, Præst moved on to league rivals SS Lazio. He played seven games for the club, before ending his career in 1957.[1]
Upon his return to Denmark, Præst's status as ex-professional meant the Danish Football Association (DBU) kept him banned from playing in the Danish leagues. Præst and John Hansen had both bought vacation homes in Liseleje, and Præst's summer residence "Juve" was soon the gathering place of the 1948 Olympics team. The team was reformed, amateurs and ex-professionals alike, and played a string of unofficial high-profile exhibition matches that drew many spectators.[8] This provoked DBU to move on the issue of ex-professionals, and it was decided that following a quarantine of two years, ex-professionals were allowed to re-enter the Danish football league.[9]
At ØB's 75th anniversary in 1969, Præst and Flemming Nielsen arranged an old boys exhibition match between the 1948 Olympic team and Juventus FC, with the proceeds going to ØB.[10] In November 2008, Præst was voted into the Danish Football Hall of Fame, for his achievements with Juventus FC and the Danish national team.[11]


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Javier Pradera, Spanish anti-Franco activist, publisher, political analyst and journalist, founder of El País, died he was 77.

Francisco Javier Pradera Gortázar  was a Spanish anti-Franco activist, journalist, political analyst and publisher died he was 77.. Pradera was a journalist and columnist for El País, based in Madrid.[1] Pradera worked as an editorial writer at El País from 1976 to 1986.[1] His first piece for El País was published on May 16, 1976.[1] He remained an El País columnist and editorial board member from 1986 until his death in 2011.[1] Outside of El País, Pradera worked as the director of the publishing firm, Alianza Editorial, and founded the publishing house, Siglo XXI.[1]

(April 28, 1934 – November 20, 2011)


Pradera was born on April 28, 1934, in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa.[1] His grandfather, Víctor Pradera, a politician who founded the Bloque Nacional, a now defunct conservative party, was killed by anarchists in 1936.[1] His father, Javier Pradera, was also assassinated just one day after his grandfather.[1]
Pradera completed his law degree as a cum laude from Complutense University.[1] He found work within the legal department of the Franco's era Spanish Air Force.[1] However, Pradera was arrested in February 1956 for taking part in anti-Franco university protests, which cost him his job.[1] Pradera turned from his family's politically conservative traditions and joined the Communist Party of Spain, which was banned during the Franco era.[1] However, he left the part in 1964 following the expulsions of Jorge Semprún and Fernando Claudin in a party purge.[1]
Pradera and Fernando Savater, a Basque philosopher, co-founded the Claves de Razón Práctica magazine in 1990.[1]
Javier Pradera died on November 20, 2011, at the age of 77. His last column for El País was published on the same day as his death.[1] The piece, which he titled Al borde del abismo (On the brink of the abyss), warned against a potential interim government for Spain if the European sovereign debt crisis worsened.[1]


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Shelagh Delaney, English playwright (A Taste of Honey) and screenwriter (Dance with a Stranger), died from breast cancer and heart failure she was 72.

Shelagh Delaney FRSL was an English dramatist and screenwriter, best known for her debut work, A Taste of Honey (1958) died from breast cancer and heart failure she was 72..


(25 November 1938[1] – 20 November 2011)[2]

Early life and A Taste of Honey

Born in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, the daughter of a bus inspector,[3] Of Irish ancestry, she failed the eleven plus exam four times,[4] but transferred to a grammar school at the age of fifteen from a secondary modern school, gaining five O-levels.[5]
Thinking she could do better than Terence Rattigan's Variations on a Theme, a play she had seen at Manchester's Opera House[6] during its pre–West End tour,[7] Delaney wrote her first play,[8] in ten days, partly because she felt the work showed "insensitivity in the way Rattigan portrayed homosexuals".[9] Her play was accepted by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. "Quite apart from its meaty content, we believe we have found a real dramatist", Gerry Raffles of Theatre Workshop said at the time.[10]
A Taste of Honey, first performed on 27 May 1958,[10] is set in her native Salford.[11]"I had strong ideas about what I wanted to see in the theatre. We used to object to plays where the factory workers came cap in hand and call the boss 'sir'. Usually North Country people are shown as gormless, whereas in actual fact, they are very alive and cynical."[12]
Reuniting the original cast,[13] the play subsequently enjoyed a run of 368 performances in the West End from January 1959;[14] it was also seen on Broadway, with Joan Plowright as Jo and Angela Lansbury as her mother.[15] It is "probably the most performed play by a post-war British woman playwright".[16]
Breaking new ground in touching on issues like homosexuality "this earthily realistic, moving story of a reluctant teenage mother-to-be ... raises issues which were later to become prime concerns of feminist writers."[17]

Other work

Delaney's second play The Lion in Love followed in 1960. This work "portrays an impoverished family, whose income comes from peddling trinkets", but "the best qualities of the first play are absent."[18]
Novelist Jeanette Winterson though, has commented that the contemporary reviews of these first two plays' first performances "read like a depressing essay in sexism".[19] Sweetly Sings the Donkey, a collection of short stories, appeared in 1963.
The screenplay of the 1961 film version of A Taste of Honey, which she co-wrote with director Tony Richardson, "contrives to keep in Delaney's best lines while creating a cinematic, rather than a theatrical experience".[20] It won the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award in 1962. Delaney's other screenplays include The White Bus, Charlie Bubbles (both 1967) and Dance with a Stranger (1985). She also wrote several radio plays, Tell Me a Film (2003), Country Life (2004)[15] and its sequel Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life, which was broadcast in The Afternoon Play slot on BBC Radio 4 in June 2010.[21]
In 1985, Delaney was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Death

Delaney died from breast cancer and heart failure, five days before her 73rd birthday, at the home of her daughter Charlotte in Suffolk, England.[1] She is survived by her daughter and three grandchildren.[15]

Influence on Morrissey

Delaney is cited as having been a great influence on The Smiths' lead singer and lyricist Morrissey. In 1986, Morrissey said, "I've never made any secret of the fact that at least 50 per cent of my reason for writing can be blamed on Shelagh Delaney." Many of Morrissey's lyrics were lifted directly from Delaney's plays, notably A Taste of Honey. The lyrics of The Smiths's "This Night Has Opened My Eyes" are a retelling of the plot of A Taste of Honey, using many direct quotes from the play. Morrissey chose a photo of Delaney as the artwork on the album cover for his band's 1987 compilation album, Louder Than Bombs.[22]


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Lenny Lyles, American football player (Baltimore Colts), died he was 75.

Lenny Lyles  was a professional American Football defensive back who played twelve seasons in the National Football League died he was 75.. He started in Super Bowl III for the Baltimore Colts.[1]

(January 26, 1936 – November 20, 2011)

 The 6-2, 202-pound Lyles was recruited by the University of Louisville in 1954, when he broke the school’s color barrier for scholarship athletes. Lyles remains Louisville’s all-time scoring leader for a non-kicker with 300 points. After a successful collegiate career, where Lyles was known for his return skills, he was drafted by the Baltimore Colts in the first round of the 1958 NFL Draft. He spent one year with the Colts before joining the 49ers in 1959. After two seasons in San Francisco, Lyles returned to the Colts where he remained until the end of his career in 1969. Lyles finished his career with 2,161 return yards and averaged 26.7 yards per return. Lyles spent 27 years as an executive with Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp in Louisville.

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Alex Ibru, Nigerian newspaper publisher and politician, Minister of Internal Affairs (1993–1995), died he was 66.

Alex Ibru  was a Nigerian businessman, founder and publisher of The Guardian newspaper, who was Minister of Internal Affairs from 1993 to 1995 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha  died he was 66..[1]

(1 March 1945 – 20 November 2011)

Background

Alex Ibru was a son of Chief Janet Omotogor Ibru and brother of Chief Michael Ibru, founder of the Ibru Organization.[1] Ibru was born on 1 March 1945 in Agbhara-Otor, in today’s Delta State. He attended the Yaba Methodist Primary School (1951–1957), Ibadan Grammar School (1958–1960), Igbobi College, Lagos (1960–1963) and Trent Polytechnic in the United Kingdom (1967–1970), where he studied Business Economics.[2]

Business career

Alex Ibru was appointed chairman of Rutam Motors. In 1983 he met with newspapermen Stanley Mecebuh of Daily Times of Nigeria, Dele Cole also formerly of that paper and Segun Osoba, formerly of Nigerian Herald. With 55% funding from the Ibrus, they launched The Guardian in 1983, with Alex Ibru as chairman.[3]
The Guardian had various pro-left academics on its board, with a clear bias towards Obafemi Awolowo's Unity Party of Nigeria, and the first editor Lade Bonuola was held to stringly support the UPN. On the other hand, Ibru was from a millionaire business family and Stanley Macebuh was right wing in his views, so the paper tried to maintain a balance.[4] The stated goals of the paper were to provide an independent and balanced view.[5] The success of The Guardian made it clear that there was an appetite for high quality journalism in Nigeria, and it was followed by news magazines such as Newswatch.[6] The military regime did not appreciate the paper's independence, and it was persecuted under military ruler General Muhammadu Buhari (January 1984 - August 1985).[7]
Ibru provided funding to the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO), established during the military regime of Buhari's successor, General Ibrahim Babangida.[8] Ibru was Minister of Internal Affairs from 1993 to 1995 in the Sani Abacha government.[9] His appointment by Abacha was seen as a gesture of appeasement to the press.[10] In December 1993 there were violent clashes between the Ogoni and Okrika people in the slums of Port Harcourt in Rivers State. Alex Ibru led a committee to tour Ogoniland and investigate the causes of unrest. Other members were Don Etiebet, Minister of Petroleum Reserves and Melford Okilo, Minister of Tourism, The military administrator of the state, Dauda Musa Komo, escorted the group. Embarrassingly for the military regime, during the trip a large crowd demonstrated in Bori blaming Shell Oil pollution for their problems.[11]
Alex Ibru had told his staff on The Guardian that he would not get involved in partisan politics. Despite this, the respected newspaper was highly critical of the Abacha regime.[12] On 14 August 1994 The Guardian offices were raided and shut down by the government, although Alex Ibru retained his post. The newspapers were only allowed to reopen in October 1994 following an apology by Ibru for any offensive comments that may have appeared.[13] On 2 February 1996 his car was sprayed with machine gun fire from unidentified men who had trailed him in a deep-blue Peugeot. Both Ibru and the editor-in-chief Femi Kusa were flown to England for treatment of their injuries.[13] After Abacha's death in 1998, his Chief Security Officer Hamza Al-Mustapha and others were charged with the assassination attempt.[14]
Alex Ibru died on 20 November 2011, aged 66.[2]


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Dickey Betts died he was 80

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