Word: iwao
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...prone to nodding off at concerts, we have the perfect event for you. On June 12, a group of topflight Japanese musicians - including violinist Iwao Furusawa, tenor Masafumi Akikawa and wispy-voiced female vocalist Aoi Teshima - will perform a series of works with the intention of sending the audience to sleep. The concert, to be held at the Tokyo International Forum, is a live rendition of music selected for a Japan Airlines in-flight audio relaxation channel. The pieces, which include Schubert's Ave Maria and a Mozart Divertimento, were tested by a physician specializing in sleeping disorders and compiled...
...DIED. Iwao Takamoto, 81, Japanese-American animator who created the canine cartoon sleuth Scooby-Doo; in Los Angeles. Interned with his family in California during World War II, Takamoto first learned illustration from his fellow detainees. After the war, he apprenticed at Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on films that included Cinderella and Peter Pan. In 1961 he joined Hanna-Barbera, where he designed characters for Scooby-Doo (whose name Takamoto took from a scat line in the Frank Sinatra song Strangers in the Night) as well as for TV cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons...