Review Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song By Judith Tick Norton: 592 pages, $40 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The title of “Becoming Ella Fitzgerald,” Judith Tick’s incisive, doggedly researched new biography of the 20th century’s preeminent songstress, suggests action …
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Australia lost two great, albeit different, singers this week –The Seekers’ Judith Durham and Olivia Newton-John. She joins Andrew Ford to analyse some of their memorable vocal performances and explain what made their voices so strong–from Judith’s gospel roots, to Olivia’s classical training. Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire is a melodrama, or a song cycle, or a piece of modernist performance …
Christie Brinkley has managed to stay youthful looking at the age of 67. And this weekend the Vogue cover girl accomplished the nearly impossible feat of appearing to be around the same age as her youngest daughter, Sailor Cook, 23 Stunners: The blonde ladies posed side by side while at a private event for fashion designer Michael Kors 'Celebrating 40 …
