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Fyodor Khitruk
Leading Russian animator whose witty films verged on the surrealIn the face of Walt Disney's worldwide dominance throughout most of the 20th century, European animators forged their own style and...
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Patrick Edlinger obituary
French climber nicknamed 'Le Blond' who was known for his wild, individualistic streakIn the ski town of Snowbird, Utah, in 1988, Patrick Edlinger, who has died aged 52, was preparing to climb in the...
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Arthur Chaskalson obituary
Barrister chosen by Nelson Mandela to be the first president of South Africa's constitutional court after the fall of apartheidIn 1994, Nelson Mandela chose Arthur Chaskalson as the first president of...
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Eta Cohen obituary
My mother, Eta Cohen, who has died aged 96, was a charismatic violin teacher and the author of a bestselling series of books, The Eta Cohen Violin Method. Earlier this year she was presented with a...
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Alex Moulton obituary
Engineer and designer known for his work on car suspensions and his innovative bicycleAlex Moulton, who has died aged 92, was one of the leading lights of the great days when the British motor industry...
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Charles Rosen obituary
Pianist, author and eloquent music critic known for his waspishness in printThere have been musicians who are also critics, such as Alfred Brendel or Hector Berlioz, and there have been critics, such...
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Basil Hunter obituary
My great-uncle, the entertainer, pianist and composer Basil Hunter, has died aged 94. With the Basil Hunter Trio, from the 1950s to the 1980s he played cabaret six nights a week at clubs in...
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Walter Kellermann obituary
My friend and former colleague Walter Kellermann, who has died aged 97, was among the first students to be excluded from Berlin University under Adolf Hitler's regime. As a German Jew, he again...
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'Promoters told Brubeck to leave his African-American bassist, Gene Wright,...
Dave Brubeck played a useful role in the fight against US segregation in the 1950s and 60s. The years of his greatest popularity coincided with growing activism in the cause of civil rights, and at the...
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Barrie Scopes obituary
My brother, Barrie Scopes, has died aged 80. He was a talented mathematician, schoolteacher, missionary and mission leader, a man of prayer, an assiduous correspondent and a fun-loving family man.Born...
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Galina Vishnevskaya obituary
Striking Russian opera singer and wife of Mstislav Rostropovich, she was made an 'unperson' during the Soviet eraThe soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, who has died aged 86, coloured her performances of...
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Lisa Della Casa obituary
Swiss soprano renowned for her beauty and singing of StraussWhen the Swiss soprano Lisa Della Casa, who has died aged 93, made her Covent Garden debut in the title role of Richard Strauss's Arabella on...
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Ravi Shankar, India's sitar maestro, dies
Man who took instrument to the world and collaborated with western greats has died aged 92 in San DiegoRavi Shankar, who has died aged 92 in San Diego, was the Indian maestro who put the sitar on the...
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Ravi Shankar – the man George Harrison called the 'godfather of world music' – has died aged 92. We look back at the last 60 years of the sitar sensation
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In this archive footage, Shankar is seen teaching Beatle George Harrison the sitar in 1966
View ArticleRavi Shankar at Woodstock, 1969 - picture of the day
A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. The sitar player's performance at the festival underlined his influence on western popular musicRanjit Dhaliwal
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Reen Pilkington obituary
Our friend Reen Pilkington, who has died from multiple system atrophy aged 58, was a photographer of the natural world, a community artist, a poet and an activist. Her images and words had the quiet...
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Peter Meinertzhagen
One of the most successful and influential stockbrokers in the City of LondonPeter Meinertzhagen, one of the City of London's most successful and revered stockbrokers, who has died suddenly aged 66,...
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Letter: Ravi Shankar's Riverside raga for the BBC
Ravi Shankar did a great kindness to a young television director in November 1968. The great man was performing a raga in the BBC Riverside Studios (behind the Hammersmith Odeon) to be broadcast as...
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Letter: Patrick Moore's visual radio
In the late 1970s, as producer of an April Fools' Day edition of the BBC World Service magazine programme Outlook, I was keen to introduce something suitably daft. Among the suggestions I received was...
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