He was hired in 2015 to revivify the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV and make Las Vegas a literary destination. He seemed to be succeeding — until the camera incident in February. Yet, staffers say, that was just one of many cases of bad behavior. - Los Angeles Times
This may now seem, to younger generations, a corny, indulgent, and completely irrelevant form of grandstanding. But when you go back and watch Leonard Bernstein do it in the galvanizing documentary “Bernstein’s Wall,” it’s still cathartic. - Variety
He doesn't do smartphones, thinks talk shows are nonsensical, and reports: "Music is rapture, it’s not understanding. Go home all you music critics!" - Gramilano
"Kaji created the puzzle to be easy for children and others who didn't want to think too hard. … Sudoku championships have drawn some 200 million people in 100 countries over the years." - AP
"We live in this digital universe. Digital life has been emancipating and liberatory but at the same time it’s haunting and damaging and punishing and everything in between. It’s enabled the best and the worst of us." - The Art Newspaper
"(He) composed a large body of music in all genres — symphonic, chamber, opera, choral and oratorio — and was best known for his groundbreaking creations that were performed outdoors and incorporated sounds from nature into his music." (It was Schafer who gave us the term "soundscape.") - CBC
"I’m tired of life, because this is a world that I no longer recognise and since I can’t expect the world to adapt to me, it would be better if I got out of the way." - Gramilano
McConnell acted in a few of Alfred Hitchcock's movies, and had an acting career of her own separate from him. But "while her acting career was linked to her father, she made clear in her book that her mother had a strong cinematic partnership with him." - The New York Times
Historian Litwack "illuminated dark corners of the American past by exploring the bitter legacy of slavery and segregation and by confronting the lingering presence of white supremacy in the national consciousness." - Washington Post
Mirikitani was interned with her family during WWII, and later called poetry the language of liberation. She was the founding president of a social service organization and, according to San Francisco Mayor London Breed, "one of our city's true lights." - The New York Times
The leader of the Blue Moon Orchestra and a generous promoter of others' work as well as her own, Griffith's "best-loved songs were closely observed tales of small-town life, sometimes with painful details in the lyrics, but typically sung with a deceptive prettiness." - The New York Times
The two concerts he gave with Lady Gaga at Radio City Music Hall last week were his finale, says his son and manager, and a tour scheduled for this fall is cancelled. Bennett revealed last year that he is living with Alzheimer's. - Variety
The museum was a once renowned San Francisco tourist destination where a vinyl Michelin Man rubbed elbows with a lifesize statue of Colonel Sanders. - The Guardian
"(He) was a mainstay of NPR programming for most of (its) half-century, joining the outlet in 1977 as a producer and departing in 2013 after hosting Talk of the Nation for 11 years." He then moved to Hawaii to farm macadamia nuts. - The Washington Post on MSN
A student of Sergiu Celibidache, Gelmetti served as principal conductor or music director of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony (1989-1998), the Rome Opera (2000-2009), Sydney Symphony (2004-2008), and Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo (2012-2016). - Limelight (Australia)
