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Nobel-Winning Author Dies

Conductor Was A Child Prodigy

Film Director Paul Mazursky

JTA — Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Prize-winning
South African chronicler of apartheid and its after-
math, has died.
Gordimer, 90, died July 13, 2014, at home in
Johannesburg, a statement from her family said,
according to the New York Times.
Born in 1923 to a watchmaker
from Lithuania and an English-
born mother, Gordimer led a
cloistered life until she attended the
University of Witwatersand. She
began to publish stories and novels
chronicling the grappling of her
countrymen, black and white, with
apartheid. Some of these works
Nadine
were banned.
Gordimer
It was only after the fall of apart-
heid in 1991 — the year she became a Nobel literature
laureate — that she revealed her own membership in
the African National Congress and her role in the anti-
apartheid movement.
Gordimer, nonetheless, maintained a critical dis-
tance from the new South African authorities, lam-
basting them for their postures on censorship and
their resistance to promoting known treatments for
AIDS.
She was critical of Israel, but rejected comparison of
its policies to apartheid, a factor that led to a bitter dis-
pute with her biographer, Ronald Suresh Roberts.

and Marion (Marie) Shulman Maazel,
JTA — Conductor Lorin Maazel, a
were American-born children of
prodigy who served as music director
of the New York Philharmonic, the
Russian Jews. He was born in the
Cleveland Orchestra and the Vienna
Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine,
State Opera, has died.
where his parents were studying.
Maazel died July 13, 2014,
He began studying piano
at his home in Castleton, Va.,
at age 5 and violin at 7, and
from complications of pneu-
then studied conducting in
Los Angeles with Vladimir
monia at the age of 84.
He had been rehearsing
Bakaleinikoff, following him
for the annual the Castleton
to Pittsburgh. At the age of 9
Festival, which is held on his
he conducted the Interlochen
farm.
music camp orchestra in
Maazel, who was a child
Michigan and the Pittsburgh
Lorin M aazel
prodigy in conducting and
Symphony Orchestra.
conducted an orchestra
During his decades-long
for the first time at the age of 9, had
career, Maazel conducted more than
served as artistic director of the
150 orchestras in at least 5,000 opera
Deutsche Oper Berlin, general man-
and concert performances, according
ager of the Vienna State Opera and
to his personal website. He made more
music director of the Radio Symphony than 300 recordings, including sym-
of Berlin, the Symphony Orchestra
phonic cycles of complete orchestral
of the Bavarian Radio, the Pittsburgh
works by Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy,
Mahler, Schubert, Tchaikovsky,
Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra,
the Munich Philharmonic and the
Rachmaninoff and Richard Strauss.
New York Philharmonic.
His death was announced on his
He also was a composer.
personal website and on the website of
Maazel's parents, Lincoln Maazel
the Castleton Festival.

JTA — Filmmaker Paul Mazursky, who cap-
tured the 1960s and '70s counterculture with
a string of successful movies, has died.
Mazursky, who grew up Jewish in
Brooklyn but later became
a proclaimed atheist, died
June 30, 2014, in Los
Angeles. He was 84.
The movies he directed
and wrote captured the
freewheeling, free-loving,
drug-smoking era of the
Paul Mazursky '60s and '70s, including
such films as Bob & Carol
& Ted & Alice, An Unmarried Woman and
Harry and Tonto. He also wrote and directed
Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
Mazursky's work spanned six decades,
including the 1989 adaptation of an Isaac
Bashevis Singer novel called Enemies, a Love
Story. In recent years, he appeared in several
episodes of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Mazursky was nominated for five Oscars
but never won.
Born Irwin Mazursky in 1930, he changed
his name to Paul when he acted in his first
movie, Stanley Kubrick's debut feature Fear
and Desire in 1953.

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