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☆ Cissy Houston, Grammy-winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston, dead at 91
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Cissy Houston, Grammy-winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston, has died, according to Gwendolyn Quinn, a representative for The Estate of Whitney E. Houston. “Mother Cissy has been a strong and towering figure in our lives. Whitney Houston died in 2012 at the age of 48. Cissy Houston was also the mother of sons Gary and Michael and the grandmother of her several grandchildren, according to her biography. Her granddaughter Bobbie Kristina Brown, died three years after her mother Whitney at the age of 22.

Persons: CNN — Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston, Gwendolyn Quinn, Whitney E, ”, Pat Houston, Cissy, Emily Drinkard, Cissy Houston, Delia Mae Drinkard, Houston, Anne, Larry, Nicky, Lee, Marie, Anne Drinkard, Lee’s, Judy Clay, Dee Dee Warwick, Dionne Warwick, Houston’s nieces, Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Esther Phillips, Lou Rawls, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett, Franklin, Bette Midler, Beyoncé, Burt Bacharach, Carly Simon, Chaka Khan, David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Gary, Michael, Bobbie Kristina Brown, Whitney, ” Pat Houston’s, “, Bobbi Kristina Organizations: CNN, The, Whitney, Houston, Newark Public School, New Hope Baptist Church, Sacred Music, Carnegie Hall, Newport Jazz, Webster, RCA Records Locations: Cissy, Newport , Rhode Island, New York City, ”, Cissy Houston

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the 2023 class of fellows, often known as recipients of the “genius grant,” on Wednesday. The foundation reviews nominations for fellows over a yearslong process that solicits input from their communities and peers. Fellows do not apply and are never officially informed that they've been nominated unless they are selected for the award. The 2023 fellows are:E. Tendayi Achiume, 41, Los Angeles, a legal scholar who examines the history of global migration to argue for a reimagining of the rules governing the movement of people. Lester Mackey, 38, Cambridge, Massachusetts, a computer scientist and statistician whose research has helped improve the efficiency and predictions of machine learning techniques.

Persons: John D, Catherine T, ”, Carruth, they've, Tendayi Achiume, Andrea Armstrong, Rina Foygel Barber, Ian Bassin, Courtney Bryan, Jason D, María Magdalena Campos, Pons, Raven Chacon, Red, Diana Greene Foster, Lucy Hutyra, Carolyn Lazard, Ada Limón, Lester Mackey, Patrick Makuakāne, Linsey Marr, Manuel Muñoz, Imani Perry, Dyani, Williams, Amber Wutich Organizations: MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Fellows, Mexican American, Black, Associated, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: Los Angeles, New Orleans, Chicago, Washington, Cambridge , Massachusetts, Nashville , Tennessee, Cuba, Red Hook , New York, United States, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Lexington , Kentucky, Blacksburg , Virginia, Tucson , Arizona, Mexican, Central Valley, Shakopee, Minneapolis, Tempe , Arizona

☆ Arhoolie Records Founder Chris Strachwitz Dies at Age 91
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( James R. Hagerty | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Chris Strachwitz preserved songs that otherwise would have died along with their artists. Photo: Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty ImagesMost record company executives search for hits. Chris Strachwitz , a German immigrant who founded Arhoolie Records in 1960, recorded whatever he liked. What he liked included Cajun accordion players, Bohemian-Moravian polka bands in Texas, and steel guitarists playing sacred music.

☆ A Swinging Duo of Duke Ellington Films
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Will Friedwald | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

John Lamb on bass, Duke Ellington on piano, Johnny Hodges on alto sax and Lawrence Brown on trombone at Grace Cathedral Photo: Bettmann ArchiveDuke Ellington is between sets in his dressing room at San Francisco’s Basin Street West. “Do you want the snore in there?” he says, as he starts to lie down for a nap. Then, surprisingly, he chooses instead to engage with the interviewer—the music critic and television producer and host Ralph J. Gleason —and the camera crew who, by that time, have been trailing Ellington for a month. He also demonstrates a piece that he is in the middle of writing with his musical partner, Billy Strayhorn . It’s a rare example of a very candid Ellington letting the rest of us into his world and creative process.

☆ Pope Francis again turns screws on use of traditional Latin Mass
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Philip Pullella | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

VATICAN CITY, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Tuesday further tightened the screws on Catholic conservatives over the use of traditional Latin Mass, rebuking bishops who had allowed it to be said in parishes without previous permission from the Vatican. Francis issued a brief but unequivocal decree underscoring sections of a document he issued in 2021, when he overturned liberalising decisions by his two predecessors, who had been more lenient towards the traditional Latin Mass. Some also had closed an eye to the regulation that priests ordained after 2021 needed special permission from the Vatican to say the old-style Latin Mass. Some conservatives in the Church have used the Latin Mass as a battle cry in their general opposition to the reforms of the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council, which included the introduction of Mass in vernacular languages. Many missed the Latin rites' sense of mystery and awe and the centuries-old sacred music that went with it.

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