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"Stephen E. Bacher" <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:40:24 -0500
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Both from the AP.

   Wed Jan 29, 6:19 PM ET

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   SISTER BAY, Wis. - John Browning, a Grammy-winning pianist who
   performed professionally for six generations, died Sunday. He
   was 69.

   His style was reserved, elegant and penetrating, more intellectual
   than overtly emotional yet eminently approachable.

   Browning was born to musical parents in Denver in 1933. Having
   studied piano from the age of 5, he appeared as a soloist with
   the Denver Symphony at 10.  His family moved to Los Angeles in
   1945. He spent two years at Occidental College, then began his
   studies at the Juilliard School beginning in 1950. He stole the
   spotlight in 1956 with a silver medal in the Queen Elisabeth
   International Music Competition in Brussels. He made his
   professional orchestral debut with the New York Philharmonic
   the same year.

   Browning gave the premiere of Samuel Barber's Pulitzer Prize-winning
   Piano Concerto in 1962, which was written for him, in connection
   with the opening of Lincoln Center.

   His second recording of the work, with Leonard Slatkin and the
   St. Louis Symphony in 1991, won a Grammy for best instrumental
   soloist with orchestra.  Mr. Browning won a second Grammy in
   1993.

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   LONDON (AP) - Diana Menuhin, who gave up a promising ballet
   career to devote her life to her husband, violin maestro Yehudi
   Menuhin, died Jan.  25.  She was 90.

   Devoted, supportive - and sometimes acerbic - Lady Menuhin was
   the ideal foil for the dreamy, otherworldly genius of her husband
   and became the guardian of his formidable talent.

   Observers believe that without her, Yehudi Menuhin, who died in
   1999, never would have become a global musical force or a champion
   of artistic and humanitarian causes.

   Born Diana Gould in London, she joined Marie Rambert's new ballet
   school in Notting Hill at the age of 9. She danced for Ramberts,
   the Vic-Wells Ballet troupe, George Ballanchine's Ballets and
   the Markova-Dolin Ballet.  When the Arts Theatre Ballet was
   formed in 1940, she became its leading dancer, and worked on the
   London stage throughout World War II.  She married Yehudi Menuhin
   in London in 1947.

 - seb

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