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DIED. Boris Aronson, 81, Russian-born stage designer whose stylish, inventive sets for such Broadway shows as Cabaret and Zorba won him six Tony Awards; in Nyack, N.Y. An art student in Moscow and Paris before coming to New York in 1923, Aronson designed more than 100 theater, opera and ballet productions in 50 years, including a distinguished series of collaborations with Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim (Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures...
DIED. Lewis Milestone, 84, director of nearly 40 films, notably the 1930 Academy Award-winner All Quiet on the Western Front; after a long illness; in Los Angeles. Russian-born Milestone won his first Oscar for a 1927 war comedy called Two Arabian Knights. He also directed the 1931 version of The Front Page, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien, the 1940 Of Mice and Men, starring Burgess Meredith, and the 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando...
Louise Nevelson, the doyenne of American sculpture, is 80 this year. Over the past four decades-she did not have her first exhibition until 1941-the work of this Russian-born artist, an immigrant from Kiev, has become one of the indispensable points of reference in American art as a whole. Her walls of wooden boxes, painted black, white or gold and containing arrays of scraps and found objects, occupy a unique mid-point between the grids of cubism and the dream landscapes of surrealism, displaying a tough analytical sense that is at the same time drenched in fantasy...
DIED. Serge Semenenko, 76, banker and corporation "doctor" whose flair as an arranger of controversial rescue loans gave his career an aura of drama and mystery; in New York City. The Russian-born financier, who rose from $25-a-week credit clerk to vice chairman of the First National Bank of Boston, was an improbable Bostonian. He traveled constantly and liked to mix business with pleasure in playgrounds like Acapulco and Cannes...
DIED. Andre Kostelanetz, 78, Russian-born maestro who dedicated 50 years to popularizing orchestral music in America and American music in the world; of a heart attack; while vacationing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Though Kostelanetz fled war-ravaged Petrograd, where he had conducted opera, for New York City in 1922, his U.S. career did not bloom until eight years later when he was hired to lead the CBS symphony orchestra on radio's Chesterfield Hour. After making the program a hit, he added to his celebrity by marrying Opera Diva Lily Pons in 1938 (they divorced...