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• Singer Natalie Cole Dead At 65

  01-01-2016 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Cole is perhaps best known for her 1991 multiple Grammy-winning album Unforgettable: With Love, which became the biggest hit of her career … [She] wowed audiences with a seamless duet with her late father’s voice on the title tune, one of the elder Cole’s signature numbers. Other hits included ‘This Will Be,’ ‘Our Love’ and a cover of ‘Pink Cadillac.'”
  
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• Gilbert Kaplan, 74, Financial Publisher Turned Mahler Scholar

  01-01-2016 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He made his name and fortune as the founder of the magazine Institutional Investor (“Vanity Fair for bankers”), and devoted much of his life to his obsession with Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. He purchased the autograph score and went on to correct numerous errors in the then-published edition; he conducted the work (and only that work) more than 100 times and recorded it with no less than the Vienna Philharmonic.
  
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• Arts Council England celebrates the regions | Letters

  01-01-2016 19:25
  
  In my first eight months as chief executive of Arts Council England, I have travelled from Cumbria to Cornwall to experience at first hand arts and culture in villages, towns and cities across the country. I have heard and understood people’s frustration about the need for more arts and culture beyond the capital (London must stop sucking cash from the rest of Britain, 23 December). We agree that the balance needs to change, which is why when I made my first speech in the job in Hull, I an
  
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• The Must-Sees of 2016: Classical and Opera from Baroque Unwrapped to Kronos Quartet

  01-01-2016 17:03
  
  The critics' guide to the hottest tickets of the year ahead
  
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• Parviz Tanavoli: Iranian artist who made something out of nothing

  01-01-2016 15:06
  
  The country’s most renowned living artist on his famous ‘heech’ works, being summoned by the shah, and the resurgence of Iran’s art sceneIn 1971, the then queen of Iran commissioned Parviz Tanavoli, a young artist in his 30s, to make one of his signature bronze sculptures for the palace of the shah. The tall, majestic bronze statuette depicts the word heech, which means “nothing” in Persian. Its message in relation to the shah’s grandiose rule was ambigu
  
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• The Architecture That Wowed Us This Year

  01-01-2016 00:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Not long ago, employing advanced computer technology to deform a building into shards or blobs was enough to capture our imaginations. Today, it requires something more, be it formal sophistication, environmental innovation, intricate detailing, sophisticated materials, diverse programs, flexible layouts, or a connection to the surrounding landscape.”
  
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