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Amy Lowell: Crowned

CrownedYou came to me bearing bright roses, Red like the wine of your heart; You twisted them into a garland To set me aside from the mart. Red roses to crown me your lover, And I walked…

Irving Berlin

Name at birth: Israel BalineTunes like "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Puttin' On The Ritz," "God Bless America" and "White Christmas" made Irving Berlin one of the most celebrated composers of 20th…

Walter Murch

Walter Murch won an Oscar for mixing sound on Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now, then won twin Oscars for sound mixing and film editing on the 1996 drama The English Patient. Murch is…

Albrecht Dürer

Germany's Albrecht Dürer is considered to be one of the great artists of the Northern European Renaissance. Trained in his father's goldsmith shop and apprenticed to one of Nuremberg's best…

Arthur Upson: After a Dolmetsch Concert

After a Dolmetsch ConcertArthur UpsonOut of the conquered Past Unravishable Beauty; Hearts that are dew and dust Rebuking the dream of Death; Flower o' the clay downcast Triumphant in…

Gene Kelly

Name at birth: Eugene Curran KellyScreen legend Gene Kelly is best known for dancing through movie musicals of the 1940s and '50s, especially An American in Paris (1951) and Singin' in the Rain (1952…

Danny Boyle

Danny Boyle is a British filmmaker who won an Oscar for directing the film Slumdog Millionaire (2008). Boyle, of Irish Catholic stock, grew up outside of Manchester, England and began his career in…

Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli is the Oscar, Emmy and Tony-winning performer who is also the daughter of actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli. Like her mother, Liza Minnelli became known as a…