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Pioneer in electronic and electro-acoustic music dies

By LISA RATHKE
Feb 09, 2022 6:00 am - A composer, professor and pioneer in electronic and electro-acoustic music, who helped develop the Synclavier, an early digital synthesizer, has died. Jon Appleton died ...
'2001,' 'Blade Runner' effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull dies

By LINDSEY BAHR
Feb 08, 2022 6:00 am - Douglas Trumbull, a visual effects master who showed movie audiences indelible images of the future and of space in films like 'œ2001: A Space Odyssey,'ť 'œClose Encount...
John Vinocur, Paris-based columnist and editor, dies at 81

By JOHN DANISZEWSKI
Feb 08, 2022 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - John Vinocur, a much-respected foreign correspondent for The New York Times and The Associated Press and later executive editor and columnist at the Inte...
Former Rutgers AD, NJSEA president Robert Mulcahy dies at 85

The Associated Press
Feb 08, 2022 6:00 am - MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) - Robert E. Mulcahy, a longtime New Jersey official who served as athletics director for the state's flagship university and held many high-ranking...
Shirley Cuban, mother of Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, dies

The Associated Press
Feb 07, 2022 6:00 am - DALLAS (AP) - Shirley Cuban, the mother of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, has died, her son Brian Cuban said. She was 84. Cuban died Friday in the suburban Pittsburg...
Syl Johnson, Chicago soul and blues artist, dies at 85

By SOPHIA TAREEN
Feb 06, 2022 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Syl Johnson, a Chicago soul singer and blues artist whose work was sampled by top hip-hop artists, has died at age 85, his family said Sunday. "A fiery, ...
Lata Mangeshkar, legendary Indian singer, dies at 92

By SHEIKH SAALIQ
Feb 06, 2022 6:00 am - NEW DELHI (AP) - Lata Mangeshkar, a legendary Indian singer with a prolific, groundbreaking catalog and a voice recognized by more than a billion people in South Asia, h...
St. Viator students, staff bid final farewell to 'steadying force'

By Eileen O. Daday
Feb 06, 2022 12:00 am - Daily Herald correspondent The entire student body and every member of the St. Viator High School faculty and staff filed outside of the building Friday. There was no fi...
Ashley Bryan, acclaimed children's author, dead at 98

The Associated Press
Feb 05, 2022 6:00 am - ISLESFORD, Maine (AP) - Ashley Bryan, a prolific and prize-winning children's author and illustrator who told stories of Black life, culture and folklore in such acclaim...
Todd Gitlin, prominent activist and thinker, dead at 79

The Associated Press
Feb 05, 2022 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Todd Gitlin, a prominent anti-war and campus activist of the 1960s who drew upon his experiences and influenced many others as an author, sociologist and...

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