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Buena Vista Social Club

Director:Wim WendersArtisan Entertainment; 106 minutes; unratedRelease:6/99With:Compay Segundo, Eliades Ochoa, Ry Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrer A few years ago American guitarist Ry Cooder searched…

Man on the Moon

Director:Milos FormanWriters:Scott Alexander and Larry KaraszewskiUniversal Pictures; R; 118 minutesRelease:12/99Cast:Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love When Andy Kaufman died at age 35…

1965 Grammy Awards

Record of the Year“A Taste of Honey,” Herb Alpert and the Tijuana BrassAlbum of the YearSeptember of My Years, Frank Sinatra (Reprise)Song of the Year“The Shadow of Your Smile” (Love Theme…

Phyllis Diller

Name at birth: Phyllis Ada DriverPhyllis Diller was the stand-up comedian known for her wild hair, raucous laugh, and silly one-liners about her looks and her fictional life as a homemaker. She is…

Small Wonders

Director: Allan Miller Director of Photography: Kramer Morgenthau Editors: Allan Miller and Donald Klocek Producers: Susan Kaplan and Walter Scheur Miramax; G; 120 minutes…

Andrew Carnegie Biography

Andrew Carnegieiron/steel manufacturer, philanthropistBorn: 11/25/1835Birthplace: Dunfermline, Scotland Though his formal education ended after elementary school, the family's respect for…

1993 Gramophone Awards

Baroque VocalStradella, San Giovanni Battista, Marc Minkowski conducting Louvre Musiciens du Louvre (Erato)Baroque Non-VocalHeinichen, Dresden Concertos, Reinhard Goebel conducting Musica…

1999 Gramophone Awards

Opera (Record of the Year)Antonín Dvorák, Rusalka, Mackerras (Decca)Editor's ChoiceNaxos's British music series Baroque InstrumentalJacquet de la Guerre, Premiére livre, Carole Cerasi (…

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich

(Encyclopedia) Tchaikovsky, Peter IlyichTchaikovsky, Peter Ilyichĭlyēchˈ chīkôfˈskē [key], 1840–93, Russian composer, b. Kamsko-Votkinsk. Variant transliterations of his name include Tschaikovsky and…

American Music Timeline - 1800s

Part II: The 1800s by David Johnson 1814 1842 1861 1880 1891 1897 Next: 1900-1920 1814 Francis Scott Key writes poem The Defense of Fort McHenry, which appears in The Baltimore…