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By Andrew Druckenbrod, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Bach Choir of Pittsburgh's current director, Thomas Douglas. Johann Sebastian Bach's last name means "brook" in German. That's fitting as the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh started as a... [read full story]
Charles Walker was a distinguished civil engineer in Scotland and the Far East who is memorable as the man who tracked down the unmarked grave of the Scottish Olympic athlete Eric Liddell, who died in a Japanese prison camp in...
Elisabeth Söderström was one of the most natural performers in opera. She regarded herself as a storyteller; vocalism for its own sake did not interest her, and she often said that her own voice was nothing special. There she...
Orig Williams was one of the most well-loved villains in sport, a Welsh-speaking native of North Wales who rose to television stardom as a wrestler under the unlikely pseudonym of “El Bandito”. His favourite saying was: “If you...
Derek Boland — or Derek B to use his streetwise hip-hop appellation — was one of Britain’s first home-grown rappers at a time when the form was still essentially an American import, rather than one of the world’s most...
