| Danny Newman: 1919 - 2007
Newman, the dynamic longtime press agent for Lyric Opera and a veteran arts and entertainment promoter who revolutionized the way live performances are marketed to audiences via subscriptions, died Saturday night at his home in Lincolnwood. He was 88.
He died of pulmonary fibrosis, according to his wife, Alyce, who was with him when he died. The Chicago native had been in declining health since undergoing spinal surgery in 2004 as a result of a fall at the couple's home.
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Legendary Lyric press agent was a guru for countless arts groups
Throughout his 42 seasons with Lyric Opera of Chicago, the closest Danny Newman came to performing onstage at the Civic Opera House was as a bearer of bad tidings. It was his job to tell audiences that the diva they had come to hear was out with the flu, or that the tenor had laryngitis but would soldier on anyway. "La-dies and gen-tle-men !" he would begin, his voice ringing with clarion fervor, like a latter-day Moses delivering the 10 Commandments.
Mr. Newman, the dynamic longtime press agent for Lyric Opera and a veteran arts and entertainment promoter who revolutionized the way live performances are marketed to audiences via subscriptions, died Saturday night at his home in Lincolnwood. He was 88.
He died of pulmonary fibrosis, according to his wife Alyce, who was with him when he died.
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Upcoming Sundays will showcase Karen Ellerbrook and Pat McCormick, Tom and Dylan Brown and Betsy Schmidt and Company. For more information about the tours or entertainment, please call the Reitz Home Museum at 426-1871. Red Cross query The American Red Cross wants local entertainers and musicians to perform in the Tri-State's Holiday Blood Donorama on Dec. 26 and 27. The event will run from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. both days at the Evansville Airport Marriott, 7101 U.S. 41 North. For information, contact Loni White at whitelb@usa.redcross.org or call (502) 540-7092 or (502)609-7045. Arts Beat looks on the scene and behind the scenes of Evansville's cultural landscape. Contact Roger McBain at mcbainr@courierpress.com or call 464-7520. .
Akon performs at early New Year's party
Rap artist Akon is seen at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards news conference Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007, in Los Angeles. A day after earning four Grammy nominations, Akon performed at a New Year's Eve party: the taping of "Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve." .
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