Remembering Kurt Masur, Dickie Moore, Marjorie Lord, Bonnie Lou
Kurt Masur was the respected German composer who took over at a troubled time for the New York Philharmonic and brought it back to prominence. Before that he was the director of the prestigious Leipzig Gewandhaus for 25 years. Dickie Moore was a member of the great Montreal Canadien teams of the 1950’s, the third member of the line with the Richard brothers, Maurice and Henri. Marjorie Lord was Danny Thomas’s television wife in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, and the mother of actress Anne Archer. Bonnie Lou was the first female rockabilly singer, who broke new ground in the 1950’s.