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Gloria Vanderbilt obituary: artist, designer and ‘poor little rich girl’
- People
- June 22, 2019, 05:00
Born: February 20th, 1924 Died: June 17th, 2019 Gloria Vanderbilt, the original “poor little rich girl”, inherited vast family wealth at the high pr(...)

Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt dies in New York aged 95
- US
- June 17, 2019, 18:25
Gloria Vanderbilt, the heiress, artist and romantic who began her life as the “poor little rich girl” of the Great Depression, has died at the age of (...)

Switched-On Bach: How a transgender synth pioneer changed music
- Music
- November 20, 2018, 05:00
Since its release 50 years ago, Switched-On Bach has been relegated to the realm of kitsch curiosity; blips and blops produced from tinkerings on prim(...)

Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg/Gustavo Gimeno – Shostakovich Symphony No 1 etc – Suave and urbane
- Music
- August 16, 2017, 17:01
The 18-year-old Shostakovich wrote of his First Symphony: “Not bad . . . although it really ought to be called a symphony-grotesque”. Valencia-born Gu(...)

Sombre start to the season by RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
- Music
- October 12, 2016, 06:00
If the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’s 2016-17 season got off to an unusually sombre start last week, then that was because the opening work, Mahler(...)

Pierre Boulez thrilled the adventurous and appalled the conservative
- Music
- January 13, 2016, 06:00
The death last week of Pierre Boulez at the age of 90 marks the passing of the last great figure from the postwar European avant-garde. Boulez, along(...)

Obituary: Deanna Durbin
- People
- May 4, 2013, 06:00
When a teenage Deanna Durbin appeared on screen in the 1930s, in a decorous white dress, singing with a bell-like purity, audiences sighed cont(...)