Composer & Producer Ilhan Mimaroglu Dies at 86

Ilhan Mimaroglu, a composer best known for its music and electronic music producer best known for his work with Charles Mingus, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 86 years.

The cause was pneumonia, said Mehmet Dede, a spokesman for the family.

During his career, Mr. Mimaroglu (pronounced mee-ma-loo-ROE) was both a researcher and advocate of musical experiments of others.

As a composer, he was involved in electronic music in 1950 when the genre was in its infancy and the recorder was still his main instrument. He remained one of his most important professional synthesizer era.

As a producer of Atlantic Records, has worked with Mingus, jazz bassist and composer idiosyncratic, recently concluded after a long pause the execution and recording in the early 1970 until shortly before his death in 1979. And as the president of his label, Finnadar, has recorded the music of composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen iconoclast.

Although music was his first love, Mr. Mimaroglu was also an expert photographer and author of several books in Turkish, his mother tongue, more recently, a book of film criticism published in 2010.

He once said his main achievement was that he wrote "Utopia Project", a philosophical guide.

Mimaroglu Ilhan was born in Istanbul March 11, 1926, son of a prominent architect, Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, who died shortly after his son was born.

After establishing himself as a music critic and radio producer in Turkey, Mr. Mimaroglu has received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study composition and musicology at Columbia University. Later he returned to Turkey, but in 1959 moved to New York.

He studied with the composer Vladimir Ussachevsky Center of Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music and privately with the composer Edgard Varèse and Stefan Wolpe.

It has also produced programs for electronic music and social commentary for non-commercial WBAI radio in New York. In mid 1960, he began working for his fellow migrants and Turkish Ahmet Ertegun Nesuhi, two executives of Atlantic Records.

Mr. Mimaroglu was involved mainly in the compilation of jazz for reprints to the Atlantic 70's, when he became a staff producer. Its main task was to work with Mingus, who took some of his most important recordings for the Atlantic label and returned after over a decade.

Mr. Mimaroglu oversaw all but one of the album Mingus made for Atlantic in recent years, an artistically fertile period, which ended with two albums, "Something Like a Bird" and "I, myself an eye "where Mingus took a great set, but did not play due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, which had lent him almost motionless.

Mr. Mimaroglu also composed the music of 1971, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard album "Cántame Songmy a song," an unusual blend of jazz, electronic music and more traditional writing for voices and strings.

In 1969, he was one of four composers music was used in the score of the films of Federico Fellini's "Satyricon."

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Documentary Filmmaker George C. Stoney Dies at 96

George C. Stoney, dean of the documentary film American and a leader of the movement of every American citizen has the right to a public access television program of his own, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 96 years.

Mr. Stoney, who has taught film at New York University from 1970 until the last years of his life, was equally acclaimed for his role as director, teacher and prophet of social change in a barrel camera.

In addition to mentoring two generations of students, many of whom have spread in the film industry, Mr. Stoney is dedicated to the training of community activists in the use of film as a tool for people who do not have a voice.

Their role in creating public access television was based on the hope that it would be an outlet for this type of documentary film to create communities.

His 50 documentaries as "occupation" of Canadian students who have taken over the building of McGill University in 1970, "The rebellion of '34" (1995), the brutal legacy of a strike, the textile workers crushed by the owners of factories, and "All My Babies" (1953), a film originally commissioned by the Georgia Department of Public Health to educate midwives who work in poor rural areas. It became a classic.

In the filming of "All my babies," met Mr. Stoney, son of a preacher in North Carolina, all safety practices required by the Ministry of Health requirements.

However, with the hope of a better distribution of information to a largely illiterate public, has hired a midwife of 51 years of age named Mary Coley to play the lead role in a series of dramatic reconstructions.

The film, which includes a sequence of 15 minutes showing a live birth, was widely considered a masterpiece of propaganda, in the best sense.

It became a staple of the curriculum of medical school, and was published by UNESCO and the World Health Organization.

In 2002 the film was introduced at the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, a list that basically defined the canon of American cinema.

Listed in alphabetical order, including "All About Eve" and "All Quiet on the Western Front."

Mr. Stoney had just entered the faculty of the film school at NYU in 1971 when he co-founded the Alternate Media Center, a university project for the education of students and community members to use video cameras, a technology that was new at that time.

This project led him to become interested in another cable and emerging media at significantly expanded its spectrum presents the basis for the film.

With other media savvy activists, including its Media Center co-founder of Red Burns, Mr. Stoney has helped create the National Federation of Local Cable Programmers, who began lobbying industry and government regulatory agencies .

If cable companies are going to put their wires under or over public roads, according to them, should be obliged to give the public a part of the broadcast spectrum for new public access cable. This requirement was introduced in the federal Communications Act in 1984.

"There will be no public access, except for George Stoney," said Rika Welsh, another member of the first cable programmers and lobbying member of the Association Board of Cambridge Community Television, the public access to the operator of Boston. "He understands what could be, and believe in its potential to unite communities."

In an interview some years ago (in a public access program), Mr Stoney said the public access television is not only a question of public access. "We do not see the cable as a way to encourage public action, not just access," he said. "I" as people can get information to your neighbors and your neighbors can take to the streets to organize. "

In another interview, said that public access was not meant to aim, in fact, was a bit "otherwise" anyone famous. "" To celebrate the ordinary people doing things to help each of the "something else".

Cashel George Stoney was born on July 1, 1916, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and made his way through the University of North Carolina, majoring in English and history.

He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and received certification in film education at the University of London.

He worked as an assistant field of research groups in the South for civil rights in 1940, was a Secret Service agent photo during World War II and later worked as a journalist. He has made films for state governmental agencies before starting her film company.

His survivors include a son, James, a daughter, Louise, a sister, Elizabeth Segal, a grandson and a nephew.

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