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- Danielle Sparks Lewis was born on 31 December 1966 in Carver, Carver County, Minnesota. Danielle died on 2 June 2000 in California, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Mikhail Shvejtser was born on 16 March 1920 in Perm, Russia. He was a director and writer, known for Kak zhivyote, karasi? (1992), Voskreseniye (1960) and Poslushay, Fellini! (1993). He died on 2 June 2000 in Moscow, Russia.- Additional Crew
Jeremy Hurll is known for Noel's House Party (1991). Jeremy was married to Isobel. Jeremy died on 2 June 2000.- Werner Panitzki was born on 27 May 1911 in Kiel, Germany. He died on 2 June 2000.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Adolph Hofner was born on 8 June 1916 in Moulton, Texas, USA. He was a composer, known for The Killer Inside Me (2010), Roadie (1980) and Krasna Amerika (2000). He died on 2 June 2000 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.- Composer
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Member of Estonian Composers' Union since 1973
The most conspicuous trait of Lepo Sumera's style was the use of contrasting patterns. His music juxtaposes playfulness and suffering, show and drama, masquerade and boundless sincerity. Many of his compositions, regardless of genre, are built upon semantic provocation and on unexpected or dramatic confrontation of stylistic signifiers. The composer contrasts the naive with the dramatic, the earnest with humorous modes of expression, within one and the same composition. Sumera's music is also characterized by extreme attentiveness to sound and timbre.
In his 1970s works, Sumera used free dodecaphony and collage techniques. In the 1980s, Sumera turned to tonal and modal devices, applying minimalist techniques to large-scale compositions. The 1990s yielded engaging chamber pieces, electronic experiments and multi-media works.
Lepo Sumera was one of the most resplendent symphonists in Estonian music, the composer of six symphonies. His Symphony No. 1 (1981) that utilised repetitive-minimal structures as building blocks of a large-scale symphonic composition accomplished a "style revolution" in Estonian music.
Simultaneity, variant-based development and free-floating sonic fields remain constant features of Sumera's symphonies. Since No. 3, the independent roles of harmony and timbre grow in significance. Beginning with No. 4, expressionistic tendencies take hold.
Lepo Sumera studied composition at the Tallinn Music High School with Veljo Tormis and at the Tallinn Conservatoire with Prof. Heino Eller (1968-1970). After Eller's death, he studied with Heino Jürisalu (1970-1973). From 1979-1982, he pursued postgraduate studies with Prof. Roman Ledenev at the Moscow Conservatoire.
From 1971-1980, Lepo Sumera worked as sound director at Estonian Radio, from 1980-1985 he was senior adviser at the Estonian Composers' Union. From December 1988 to April 1992, Lepo Sumera was Estonian Minister of Culture. From 1978, Sumera taught composition at the Estonian Academy of Music (Professor since 1993). He also served as first director (until 1999) of electronic music studio of the Estonian Academy of Music established in 1995. From 1993, Lepo Sumera was the chairman of the Estonian Composers' Union.
Sumera's works have been performed in the majority of European countries and the US, Canada, Australia, Japan and Cuba. In 1989, he was the resident composer at the New Beginnings Festival in Glasgow and in 1993 he was featured composer at the Chamber Music Festival in Norrtälje (Sweden) and at the Sydney Spring Festival of New Music (Australia). In 1988 and 1989, Sumera delivered lectures at the Summer Courses of New Music, Darmstadt.
In 1990, Sumera's music for Tauno Kivihall's puppet film "The Brides of Death" ("Surmamõrsjad") received the award for best film score at the Film Festival in Espinho (Portugal). In 1997, his Symphony No. 5 was chosen the recommended work at the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris in 1996.
Lepo Sumera received four annual music prizes (1977, 1982, 1985, 1989) and three state prizes: 1985 - for Symphony No. 1 and film music written in the years 1973-1984; 1993 - for Symphony No. 4 and "Play for Two" ("Mäng kahele"); 1996 - for Symphony No. 5. On two occasions, the composer won the Annual Prize of the Endowment for Music of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia: 1996 - "Three Sonnets" and "Songs from Estonian Matrimonial Lyrics" ("Laulud Eesti abielulüürikast"); 1999 - "Heart Affairs" ("Südameasjad"). In 1999, he received the Great Bear Prize for Estonian music for "Amore et igne."- Soviet and Russian ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, one of the participants in the implementation of radial keratotomy, professor. Academician of RAMS, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1987). Hero of Socialist Labor of the USSR (1987). On June 2, 2000, he died in a plane crash: the Eurocopter Gazelle helicopter belonging to the clinic, on which Fedorov returned from a conference from Tambov, crashed into a wasteland in the Brattsev area, near the Moscow Ring Road. On board were four people: Fedorov himself and his pilot Anatoly Lobov - in the front seats; behind - Anver Khusainov, who served as the navigator and Alexander Spiridonov, engineer at the Eye Microsurgery IRTC. All four died. According to the IAC, the cause of the crash was a technical malfunction of the helicopter. At the site of Fedorov's death (14 Salomei Neris St.) a chapel was built. He was buried in the rural cemetery of the village of Rozhdestvenno Mytishchi district, 60 km from Moscow.