“Whereas privately his friends delight in his clever, zany humour and mercurial mental energy, his public persona can seem a little remote. Today, however, suitcase problems aside, he is smilingly at ease. He has good reason. He has just been honoured with Gramophone magazine’s lifetime achievement award.”
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Actor Tom Bosley, 83
“Portly and soft-featured, Mr. Bosley cultivated an avuncular public persona in his best-known roles” – which included Mayor LaGuardia in the Broadway musical Fiorello!, for which he won a Tony; Sheriff Amos Tucker on the TV series Murder, She Wrote; and, most famously, as the paterfamilias in the long-running sitcom Happy Days.
Indianapolis Symphony Chooses 28-Year-Old as Music Director
“Krzysztof Urbanski has been named music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. He’s the seventh music director in the ISO’s 80-year history, and the youngest musician to hold that post with the orchestra.”
Beautiful Monsters: Vampirism Meets Modern Dance in L.A.
Helios Dance Theater’s new multimedia piece “mines the different mythological aspects of the bloodsucking creatures … . depict[ing] seduction, romance, death and nightmarish dream states through vigorous movement.”