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...full name is Raffi Cavoukian, but during his 14 years as a troubadour to the nursery-rhyme set he achieved the type of international renown that allows people to become known only by their first name. With his throaty voice, chocolate-sweet eyes and zippy rhythms, he provided intelligent amusement to millions of boys and girls who might otherwise be transported to the Saturday- morning cartoon swampland of death rays and superheroes. In the process, he was amply rewarded: his 10 albums sold 6 million copies, and he was awarded Canada's highest civilian decoration...
...piano teacher. After being widowed, his mother Julia translated and lectured on modern literature. His elder half brother Arthur was a pianist and musicologist who ultimately headed the piano department of the Cleveland Institute of Music. Friends of the family were surprised that Frank, not Arthur, achieved top musical renown; they affectionately called him the "evil of the two Loessers...
...only slash-and-burn chronicler currently at work. Her smartest move has been to choose living victims for her killer bios; speaking ill of the dead (Albert Goldman on Elvis and John Lennon, Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington on Pablo Picasso) is profitable but a tad less sensational. And the instant renown achieved by Kelley's Nancy does not really signal the end of civilization as we have known it. Good, balanced, substantial biographies about controversial figures continue to appear and win notice. Last week Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, written by two obscure authors, won a Pulitzer Prize...
HENRY OSSAWA TANNER, Philadelphia Museum of Art. The first major U.S. show devoted to Tanner (1859-1937), a pioneering black artist who fled American racial prejudice to live in Paris, where he won renown for his deeply human depictions of biblical scenes. Through April...
Most of us think of Le Corbusier as an architect, renown for such prominent and ground-breaking edifices as Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France and the Carpenter Center at Harvard. But now through December we have the valuable opportunity to view a selection of his two-dimensional work, housed in the building which he designed...