4/4/13
ROBERT died NATIONALLY[ebert is the name of street in Winston-Salem where person use to be around a lot by the name of CYNTHIA lives][notice the "K" and u-us in picture][(personal opinion)also looks like Major Allison at the local Salvation Army]; LOCALLY=ROBERT WARD[code-ward]
died;Also another local article=Winston-Salem woman killed by troopers after chase. The Associated Press. Updated: March 31, 2013 - 7:59 pm. ROBERSONVILLE =heard about it on the radio;
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Roger Ebert Dies at 70 Following Battle with Cancer
Famed movie critic Roger Ebert died Thursday in Chicago after battling cancer. He was 70.
An opinionated writer, but also a movie fan, Ebert reviewed films for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years. He is perhaps best known, however, for his 31 years reviewing films on television.Ebert experienced health problems over the past ten years, suffering illnesses including thyroid cancer and cancer of the salivary gland. In 2006 he lost part of his lower jaw, but -- as his obituary in the Sun-Times points out -- it didn't drive him out of the spotlight.
Many may not know, but Ebert was an early investor in Google and believed in the power of the Internet to share his messages -- especially through his site on rogerebert.com.
The acclaimed writer enjoyed wide and varied accolades, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2005. He also won a Webby "Person of the Year" award in 2010 for special achievement.
Fresh off the heels of his Pulitzer, Ebert launched his television show -- along with Gene Siskel (who died in 1999) -- the same year he was honored with the esteemed writing award. It started as a local Chicago show, but its popularity eventually pushed it into the national spotlight, making the duo's famed "thumbs up, thumbs down" a household gesture.
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Robert Ward, former UNC School of the Arts chancellor, dies
Posted: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 12:10 pm | Updated: 9:52 am, Thu Apr 4, 2013.
Robert Ward, a former chancellor of UNC School of the Arts and a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, died early Wednesday at his home in Durham after a period of failing health.Ward, 95, was one of the school’s founders and became its second top administrator in 1967 after the death of founding president Vittorio Giannini. Ward oversaw the integration of the school into the UNC system, when his title changed from president to chancellor.“I loved the School of the Arts,” Ward said in an interview in 2011. “It was the most wonderful period of my life.”
He founded the school’s former international music and dance programs, and oversaw the creation of the School of Design and Production and the high-school visual arts program. He also helped get Piedmont Opera started.
He stepped down as chancellor in 1974 but continued to teach at the school until 1979. He later taught at Duke University.
Ward received a lifetime achievement award in 2011 from the National Endowment for the Arts Opera Honors, the nation’s highest award for opera.
He also won a Pulitzer Prize in 1962 for “The Crucible,” which Piedmont Opera performed last year.
“UNCSA owes a fundamental debt to Robert Ward,” said Chancellor John Mauceri. “The school was only a year and half old when Vittorio Giannini passed away. It was left to Robert Ward to make the idea a functioning reality, which is exactly what he did.”
Mauceri said Ward’s legacy will live on. “The musical language the world has come to understand as American is due in part to the music and tireless work of Robert Ward,” Mauceri said. “Ward’s operas, performed around the world, continue to tell American tales in an American voice: Robert Ward’s voice.”
Peter Perret, a former music director for the Winston-Salem Symphony, got to know Ward well over the years. The Winston-Salem Symphony recorded two of Ward’s works for Albany Records in 1994.
“He was the kindest, gentlest, most down-to-earth person you could imagine,” Perret said. “He was totally without pretense.”
Alex C. Ewing, a former chancellor at the school, was a longtime friend of Ward’s.
“Bob Ward was a wise, compassionate, energetic leader, as well as an eminent composer and champion of the arts,” he said. “We all still look up to him as a founding father and pillar of the school.”
Kenneth Frazelle, a composer and faculty member at UNCSA who studied under Ward as a high-school student in the School of Music, said Ward “had the courage and commitment to write the music he loved, despite the critical or academic trends of the time. His music is direct, deeply felt, and profoundly American, and will endure in its fine craftsmanship and generous open-heartedness.”
Ward was born in Cleveland and studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., and at The Juilliard School.
He is survived by five children. His wife, Mary, died in 2006. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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