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Yahoo
16-05-2025
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Charles Strouse Dies: Prolific Composer Of Broadway's ‘Bye Bye Birdie,' Film's ‘Bonnie & Clyde' And TV's ‘All In The Family' Theme Was 96
Charles Strouse, the musical composer for such Broadway hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Annie, films including Bonnie and Clyde (1967) The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) and All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989) and for the TV series All In The Family, died at his home in New York City on May 15. He was 96. His death was announced by his children Benjamin, Nicholas, Victoria, and William Strouse. (He was predeceased by his wife, the choreographer Barbara Siman, to whom he was married from 1962 until her death in 2023. More from Deadline Robert Benton Dies: Oscar-Winning Director of 'Kramer Vs. Kramer' & Co-Screenwriter Of 'Bonnie And Clyde,' 'Superman' Was 92 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries Jasmine Amy Rogers Is The Life Of The Cartoon Party In 'Boop! The Musical' - Deadline Q&A As a prolific musical composer across media and genres, Strouse added mightily to the size of the American songbook, with instantly recognizable melodies such as 'Put on a Happy Face' from Bye Bye Birdie, 'Tomorrow' from Annie and, from All In The Family, 'Those Were The Days,' one of TV's most famous opening theme songs, sung by stars Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton in character as Archie and Edith Bunker. The nostalgic 'Those Were The Days' lyrics, written by frequent collaborator Lee Adams, began with instantly familiar 'Boy the way Glenn Miller played.' The song was performed at an upright piano by actors Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker and Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker, and it introduced more than 200 episodes of Norman Lear's groundbreaking series Over the course of a career spanning seven decades, he won three Tony Awards (for Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, and Annie), and was nominated for Golden Boy, Charlie & Algernon, Rags, and Nick & Nora. Strouse was born on June 7, 1928 in New York City, the son of Ethel (Newman) and Ira Strouse. After graduating from the Eastman School of Music in 1947, he received two scholarships to Tanglewood, where he studied under composer Aaron Copland. Subsequently, Copland arranged for Strouse to get a scholarship with legendary teacher, Nadia Boulanger, in Paris. Strouse met songwriting partner, lyricist Adams, at a party in 1949, and the duo began a longtime collaboration starting with writing songs for summer resorts in the Adirondacks. Strouse and Adams contributed material to numerous Off-Broadway musical revues, including Catch a Star, Shoestring Revue, The Littlest Revue and Kaleidoscope, and wrote specialty material for Kaye Ballard, Carol Burnett, Jane Morgan and Dick Shawn. In 1958, Strouse and lyricist, Fred Tobias wrote the chart-topping pop song 'Born Too Late' (recorded by The Poni-Tails), and it was in that same year that Strouse and Adams had their Broadway breakthrough. They were hired by producer Edward Padula to write a satirical musical about rock and roll and teen idol culture. The show, Bye Bye Birdie, became their first Tony Award-winning hit. The production starred Chita Rivera and Dick Van Dyke and won four 1961 Tony Awards including Best Musical, earning Strouse the first of his three Tony Awards. The show introduced the world to such songs as 'Put On A Happy Face,' and 'A Lot of Livin' to Do.' A 1962 movie version, starring Ann-Margret, was one of the top-grossing films of the year, and featured Margret's now iconic performance of the film's newly added title song, 'Bye Bye Birdie.' Strouse would later win a 1996 Emmy Award for the new song, 'Let's Settle Down,' written with Adams and added for the musical's 1995 TV adaptation, starring Jason Alexander and Vanessa Williams. DEADLINE RELATED VIDEO: Additional collaborations with Adams include the Mel Brooks musical All American (1962) starring Ray Bolger. Though the show was not a commercial success, it featured what would become the popular American standard 'Once Upon a Time' (recorded by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and many others). Golden Boy (1963), a musical adaptation of the play by Clifford Odets starred Sammy Davis Jr., garnered Strouse his second Tony Award nomination. It's a Bird…It's a Plane… It's Superman! (1965, written by David Newman & Robert Benton, who died earlier this month on May 11) gave audiences another popular Strouse & Adams song, 'You've Got Possibilities' (first recorded by Linda Lavin). And in 1970, when the team wrote the score for Applause (based on the film All About Eve and Mary Orr's The Wisdom of Eve and starring Lauren Bacall), Strouse would win his second Tony Award. Strouse's biggest Broadway success was with collaborators Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan on Annie (1977), based on the comic strip, 'Little Orphan Annie,' by Harold Gray. The Depression-era musical about a plucky red-headed orphan girl who wins the heart of billionaire Oliver Warbucks, was one of Broadway's biggest hits of the 1970s, winning seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and garnering Strouse his third Tony Award and a Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album. Strouse's score included 'Tomorrow,' 'It's the Hard–Knock Life,' 'You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile,' and 'I Don't Need Anything But You.' Annie ran for over 2,300 performances on Broadway, where it has been revived twice and has inspired hundreds of worldwide productions. It has also been adapted for two film and two television productions. Strouse was passionate about collaboration and would earn Tony Award nominations for his scores with lyricists: David Rogers, Charlie & Algernon (1980), based on the novel Flowers for Algernon, Steven Schwartz, for Rags (1986), with book writer Joseph Stein starring Teresa Stratas, and Nick and Nora (1991), a musical based on Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man characters, written with Richard Maltby, Jr. Strouse's film scores include Bonnie and Clyde (1967) starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway (and with a screenplay by Newman and Benton; the soundtrack for the '30s era crime romance included songs by bluegrass legends Flatt & Scruggs, but it was Strouse's score, sometimes jaunty, sometimes elegiac, perfectly captured the madcap, bloody tone of the film. Other film credits included The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), There Was a Crooked Man (1970), with Henry Fonda and Kirk Douglas, Sidney Lumet's Just Tell Me What You Want, and the animated feature All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989). In addition to his awards, Strouse was the recipient of several honorary doctorates. He was a longtime member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, inducted in 1985, and the Theatre Hall of Fame. Strouse also composed orchestral works, chamber music, piano concertos, and an opera. His original piano work, Concerto America, was composed in 2002 to commemorate 9/11 and premiered at The Boston Pops in 2004. His opera Nightingale (1982), starring Sarah Brightman, had a successful run in London, followed by many subsequent productions. In 1977, Strouse founded the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, through which many young composers and lyricists honed their craft and developed their work. Strouse authored the autobiography Put on a Happy Face: A Broadway Memoir, published by Union Square Press in July 2008. In addition to his four children, Strouse is survived by eight grandchildren, Sam and Arthur Strouse, Navah Strouse, Vivian, Weston and Ever Brush, and Owen and Theodore Strouse. A private ceremony will be held at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in New York City. Best of Deadline 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries Where To Watch All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies: Streamers With Multiple Films In The Franchise Everything We Know About 'My Life With The Walter Boys' Season 2 So Far
Winnipeg Free Press
10-05-2025
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
PGA CHAMPIONSHIP '25: A quiz covering a century or more of PGA history
How well do you know history at the PGA Championship? Try this 18-question trivia quiz (answers at the bottom). 1. Who won the previous PGA Championship at Quail Hollow? a.) Hideki Matsuyama b.) Justin Thomas c.) Kevin Kisner 2. Who was the last player to successfully defend his title in the PGA Championship? a.) Padraig Harrington b.) Steve Elkington c.) Brooks Koepka 3. Who won the PGA Championship the first year in switched to stroke play in 1958? a.) Art Wall b.) Dow Finsterwald c.) Gary Player 4. Who did Tiger Woods beat in a playoff to become the first back-to-back PGA champion in stroke play? a.) Bob May b.) Rocco Mediate c.) Sergio Garcia 5. Where was the PGA Championship first held in North Carolina a.) Pinehurst No. 2 b.) Tanglewood c.) Charlotte Country Club 6. Who was the last player to win the PGA Championship at No. 1 in the world? a.) Jason Day b.) Rory McIlroy c.) Tiger Woods 7. Name the youngest winner of the PGA Championship a.) Tom Creavy b.) Francis Ouimet c.) Gene Sarazen 8. Who has won the most majors without ever winning the PGA Championship? a.) Arnold Palmer b.) Bobby Jones c.) Tom Watson 9. Who is the only player to win the PGA Championship twice on the same course? a.) Jack Nicklaus b.) Tiger Woods c.) Walter Hagen 10. Who holds the record for largest margin of victory in the PGA Championship? a.) Jack Nicklaus b.) Tiger Woods c.) Rory McIlroy 11. Who holds the record for the lowest score at the PGA Championship? a.) Brooks Koepka b.) Xander Schauffele c.) Rory McIlroy 12. The first sudden-death playoff in any major was at the PGA Championship. On which course did this take place? a.) Pebble Beach b.) Congressional c.) Atlanta Athletic Club 13. Of three players missing the PGA Championship for the career Grand Slam, who has been runner-up most often? a.) Arnold Palmer b.) Tom Watson c.) Jordan Spieth 14. Who is the only player Walter Hagen beat twice among his record-tying five PGA titles? a.) Jock Hutchison b.) Jim Barnes c.) Gene Sarazen 15. Who won the PGA Championship by the largest margin in match play? a.) Paul Runyan b.) Ben Hogan c.) Doug Ford 16. Where was the first PGA Championship played? a.) The Country Club b.) Olympia Fields c.) Siwanoy 17. Where did Jack Nicklaus win the PGA Championship to set the record for most majors? a.) Firestone b.) Canterbury c.) PGA National 18. John Mahaffey owns the PGA Championship record for the greatest final-round comeback at seven strokes. Who was the 54-hole leader? a.) Greg Norman b.) Tom Watson c.) Arnold Palmer ___ Answers 1. b 2. c 3. b 4. a 5. a 6. a 7. c 8. c 9. b 10. c 11. b 12. a 13. a 14. b 15. a 16. c 17. b 18. b ___ AP golf:
Yahoo
08-04-2025
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Comedian John Mulaney coming to Tanglewood this summer
LENOX, Mass. (WWLP) – Tanglewood has announced that three-time Emmy Award-winning comedian John Mulaney will be coming to the venue this summer as part of the 2025 Tanglewood Popular Artist Series. As the only solo comedy show in the Koussevitzky Music Shed, Mulaney is expanding Tanglewood's summer lineup and is likely to attract longtime fans of the popular comedian. He will be performing for the first time at Tanglewood on Sunday, June 29 at 6:00 p.m. Springfield Thunderbirds secure spot in 2025 Calder Cup playoffs John Mulaney is currently the host of the Netflix talk show, 'Everybody's Live with John Mulaney,' which airs live on Wednesday evenings. His last comedy special, 'Baby J,' was filmed at Boston Symphony Hall and released on Netflix in 2023. 'Baby J,' which spun a period of hardships in the comedian's life into well-crafted humor, won Mulaney a 2023 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Variety Special (pre-recorded), an Emmy win in Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special (pre-recorded), and the 2024 Critic's Choice Award for Best Comedy Special (non-televised). Tickets for the show will go on sale on April 15 at 10:00 a.m. They can be purchased online at by calling 617-266-1200, or at the Symphony Hall Box Office during regular hours. The Tanglewood Box Office will also be available for in-person sales on April 15 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Boston Globe
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
‘Revolución diamantina' luminous with the BSO
But those locals who want to hear a new orchestral piece with a pointed feminist message needn't leave town. Guerrero, who also had a hand in commissioning 'Her Story' as head of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and led it at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood in 2023, was returning to the BSO for the first time since then. The headlining piece this time was a concert performance of the harrowingly beautiful 'Revolución diamantina,' which was inspired by protests in Ortiz's native Mexico condemning violence against women. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Ortiz, though an established composer internationally, is a relative newcomer to the BSO stage; her orchestral piece 'Kauyumari' appeared on a Concert for the City in 2024, and a handful of her chamber pieces have been performed at Tanglewood. She is directing this year's Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Center, so there will be plenty of opportunity in the near future to hear her work, but as a symphony-length piece (and recently the winner of three Grammy Awards; one for the piece itself, two for its namesake album with the Los Angeles Philharmonic), it's a powerful artist's statement. If you have already made up your mind that you don't like contemporary orchestral music, you probably won't like 'Revolución diamantina.' It offered no apologies for what it is; a demanding technical gauntlet for the orchestra and an emotional wringer for the audience. It's often gorgeous — one section swoons with ardor matching anything Rachmaninoff ever wrote — but given the context, never truly easy listening. The full ballet has never been staged, but the accompanying dramaturgy by Booker Prize-winner Cristina Rivera Garza was printed in the program book. Hopefully it won't be too long before a dance company takes on the task, but for concert performances like the BSO's, it would be helpful to have the titles of each 'scene' projected above the orchestra. Advertisement Though the singers were amplified, the score treated them more like a section of the orchestra — there primarily for texture, only occasionally for text, and they did an admirable job with both tasks. The percussion section especially was put through their paces for the piece's full 45 minutes, dashing between instruments in the back corner of the stage. (The full list of equipment took up nine full lines in the program book, included 'river stones,' an anvil, and the Mexican slit log drum called the teponatzli.) The final movement slowly gathered power into a heavens-storming chorale of hope, with most of the orchestra and chorus united in solid solemnity while flutist Lorna McGhee's soaring solo pierced the sky. Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's "Francesca da Rimini" at Symphony Hall on Thursday. Robert Torres The second half of the concert contained two shorter pieces by Tchaikovsky, which combined into an odd follow-up to the emotional battering ram that was 'Revolución.' The final piece, the Dante-inspired 'Francesca da Rimini,' had a loose surface thematic connection — Ortiz's piece as a reaction to violence against women, particularly intimate partner violence, while Francesca, allegedly based on a real contemporary of Dante, was murdered by her own husband when he discovered her affair with his brother; the poet depicted her and Paolo in the second circle of hell, condemned to whirl about in an eternal gale. Advertisement However, 'Francesca' plausibly has more to do with its composer than its central character. Tchaikovsky was in a personal tempest of his own as he struggled with his own attraction to men and external pressure to marry a woman, which he did (disastrously) in 1877, the year after he wrote 'Francesca.' It's not hard to imagine he saw his own feelings of powerlessness reflected in Dante's damned souls. In the BSO's performance Thursday, the billowing chromatic gestures were powerful enough to sweep away any hopes of terra firma. Even as the tender central love theme took center stage, the timpani added an ominous undercurrent, signaling another barrage of brass and shrieking winds wasn't too far away. The other Tchaikovsky piece, 'Variations on a Rococo Theme,' featuring cellist Alban Gerhardt, was charming, technically astounding, and placing it between 'Revolucion' and 'Francesca' had an effect comparable to eating a Snickers bar between bites of pickle. The cello showpiece sounded unusually bland in its expression, and that was only confirmed when Gerhard returned to the stage for an encore, the widely beloved prelude from Bach's Suite No. 1; those two minutes contained more sensitivity and dimension than the previous 20. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA At Symphony Hall Feb. 27. Repeats March 1. 617-266-1200, A.Z. Madonna can be reached at
Boston Globe
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
BSO announces 2025 Tanglewood season
Music director Andris Nelsons, who took on the title of head of conducting at Tanglewood in 2024, will be on campus for the entire month of July, leading concerts with the BSO and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. The piano has a prominent presence during Nelsons's programs this summer; he's slated to conduct the BSO in piano concertos with soloists Daniil Trifonov (July 5); Yefim Bronfman (July 6); Seong-Jin Cho (July 12); Yuja Wang (July 20); Lang Lang (July 27); and Ax (July 26), who will be performing in the world premiere of Williams's new piano concerto. Nelsons will also lead a program featuring the BSO debut of Spanish violinist María Dueñas, who won first prize at the 2021 Menuhin Competition (July 25). Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Andris Nelsons conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Yuja Wang at Tanglewood in 2024. Hilary Scott Advertisement Opera fans will find plenty of interest this season. Nelsons leads a full concert performance of Puccini's 'Tosca,' featuring soprano Kristine Opolais and bass-baritone Bryn Terfel reprising the roles of Tosca and Scarpia respectively from the BSO's 2017 Tanglewood performance of the opera's Act II. Tenor SeokJong Baek makes his BSO and Tanglewood debuts as Cavaradossi (July 19). Nelsons also conducts a 'theatrical concert' of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet,' with actors from Concert Theatre Works directed by Bill Barclay and music to include Prokofiev (July 11); the second such collaboration for the orchestra after last March's take on 'Peer Gynt'. Later, in Ozawa Hall, American Modern Opera Company presents Matthew Aucoin's 'Music for New Bodies,' with libretto by poet Jorie Graham and staging by operatic maverick Peter Sellars. (Aug. 7) The BSO teams up with several impressive pairs of guest conductor and soloist in the Shed, including Elim Chan with Leonidas Kavakos (Aug. 2), Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Joshua Bell (Aug. 8), and Dima Slobodeniouk with Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Aug. 17). Esa-Pekka Salonen makes his first Tanglewood appearance since 1985, conducting both the BSO (July 13) and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra (July 14). The orchestra's assistant conductors also get in on the action; Samy Rachid leads the American premiere of Camille Pépin's 'Un monde nouveau' before Yo-Yo Ma joins him and the orchestra for Saint-Saens's Cello Concerto No. 1 (Aug. 10), and freshman assistant Anna Handler is slated to debut on a program featuring Augustin Hadelich (Aug. 16). Advertisement The Boston Pops also have their share of events at the Shed. Conductor Keith Lockhart and the Pops host Broadway stars Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara in a concert inspired by Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett's 1962 special on CBS (July 18); later, Lockhart's 30th anniversary with the Pops is feted with a blowout concert, the lineup of guests including Bernadette Peters, Ben Folds, and Lynn Ahrens. (Note: The Tanglewood concert does not feature the same guests as Lockhart's 30th anniversary concert with the Pops in June at Symphony Hall.) Lockhart also conducts John Williams' Film Night (Aug. 9), while actor and conductor Damon Gupton makes his Tanglewood debut leading the orchestra in Williams's score for 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi', performed live along with the film (Aug. 1). The BSO, Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra unite for Tanglewood on Parade (Aug. 5). Left to right: Leonidas Kavakos, Emanuel Ax, Antoine Tamestit, and Yo-Yo Ma performing Dvorak's Piano Quartet No. 2 at Tanglewood. Hilary Scott On the chamber music front, the season's buzziest event will likely be the all-Beethoven quartet concert at the Shed with Ma, Ax, Kavakos, and violist Antoine Tamestit (Aug. 3). Ma and Ax have been friends and creative partners nearly all their lives, while Kavakos first collaborated with them at Tanglewood in 2014 and has been regularly doing so ever since; the three sold out the Shed in 2023 with another all-Beethoven program. Tamestit joined those same three for a stunning performance of Dvořák's Piano Quartet No. 2 in a 2022 'Pathways from Prague' program curated by Ax, so this summer's event — featuring Shai Wosner's arrangements of 'Leonore' Overture No. 3 and the Symphony No. 3 , as well as the Trio No. 4 for piano, violin, and cello — is a sequel to that as well. Advertisement Ozawa Hall and the Linde Center for Music and Learning host bountiful chamber music throughout the summer as well. Several BSO guest soloists will also have Ozawa appearances, including Cho (July 13), Terfel (July 15), and Ma, who appears with string quartet Brooklyn Rider in their debut (Aug. 13). British vocal ensemble The Sixteen makes its Tanglewood debut with founding director (and Handel and Haydn Society conductor laureate) Harry Christophers in tow (Aug. 14). The TMC's Festival of Contemporary Music is this year directed by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, whose portrait album ' James Taylor performing in Tanglewood's Koussevitzky Music Shed in 2023. Hilary Scott The Popular Artists series lineup has not been completely announced, but so far, it includes 'A Prairie Home Companion' with host Garrison Keillor (June 21), a live recording session of NPR's news quiz 'Wait Wait. . . . Don't Tell Me!' with host Peter Sagal (Aug. 28), and a concert by Bonnie Raitt (Aug. 31). As per usual, James Taylor and his All-Star Band take over the Shed for two nights around Independence Day (July 3 & 4). Expect fireworks and heavy traffic. Advertisement Tickets will be available for purchase on March 6 for everything except Taylor's dates, which are on sale now. TANGLEWOOD Lenox. Late June through Aug. 31. 888-266-1200, A.Z. Madonna can be reached at
