SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2016 Japan warns on measles after Justin Bieber infected fan joins Bieber concert

apanese authorities have warned of a possible The man, from the western Japanese city of measles outbreak after a fan who went to a Justin Nishinomiya, then stopped in Tokyo and neighboring JBieber concert near Tokyo was diagnosed with Kanagawa prefecture before returning home on the contagious disease, officials said yesterday. A August 19, when he was finally diagnosed with 19-year-old man had a fever of more than 39 measles. “Measles is highly infectious,” an official at degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit) and a Japan’s health and welfare ministry told AFP. “It could rash over his body after returning from Indonesia lead to a fatal case,” he added, issuing warnings to earlier this month, the Disease Control and hospitals across the nation to be aware of an out- Prevention Center (DCC) and local media have said. break. Concert organizers on their website also asked Despite the condition, the man, whose name was those who attended to see doctors if they developed withheld, went to Bieber’s concert on August 14 symptoms. So far, however, there have been no at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, east of Tokyo, where reports of anyone who attended the concert con- some 25,000 fans gathered for the event, they tracting measles. — AFP said.

On a roll: ‘Sausage Party’ Rudy Van Gelder, legendary maestro bids for elusive Emmy recorder of , dead at 91 ith eight Oscars, 11 Grammys and a thing of a departure for Menken, who was not Tony vying for space on his mantel- used to penning lyrics liberally sprinkled with Wpiece, Alan Menken’s bill for dry- four-letter words. “Sausage Party” may look like cleaning tuxedos might well match the box- children’s fare, but no Pixar movie ever sent up udy Van Gelder, who recorded some of drew the attention of Blue Note, for which he office take of most Off-Broadway openings. the world’s major religions or featured a drawn- jazz’s masterpieces starting in his parents’ first cut an album in 1953. Van Gelder’s tech- The legendary US composer has picked up out intimate scene involving animated gro- living room as artists took to his intimately niques soon became known as the “Blue Note R more than 100 nominations at major awards ceries. precise sound, died Thursday. He was 91. Van Sound.” A key ingredient was his use of the ceremonies in an illustrious career spanning “The music is the straight man in this,” Gelder supervised ’s spiritually then-new German-manufactured Neumann five decades that has produced some of Menken said. “Even before I was involved, the rooted 1964 “,” often called the U47 microphone, which he altered and strategi- Disney’s best-loved animated movies. With this directors were attempting a score with very greatest jazz album of all time, as well as works cally placed to capture sound at close range. year’s awards season about to hit full stride, the epic, traditional Hollywood music.” The com- by , Herbie Hancock, Thelonious “In those days-even into the 1950s-the quali- 67-year-old New Yorker is vying to join exalted poser believes writing-producing team Evan Monk, and . His death ty of the equipment and records themselves company as a member of the select “EGOT” Goldberg and Seth Rogen, who also stars, was confirmed by , where he couldn’t keep up with what musicians were club-winners of the Emmy, Oscar, Grammy and imagined it would be “a hoot” to have a Disney spent decades as the key recording engineer, playing live,” he told the blog JazzWax in 2012. “I Tony. grandee providing the music for a parody of and by his nephew Gregg Van Gelder, who had to experiment to find the best way to set up “Awards are a wonderful barometer of how the studio’s output.—AFP owns a music shop in upstate New York. musicians and microphones so the sound much your career is appreciated by your peers,” “His importance to the legacy of jazz cannot would be as warm and as realistic as possible,” he told AFP. “But if I don’t win, I’ll live.” “Ever be overstated,” Blue Note Records said in a he said. Van Gelder moved out of his parents’ since I got the Oscars, the Grammys and the statement on Facebook. An optometrist by house to a more professional studio, inspired by Tony, that whisper in my ear from people kept training, Van Gelder in the 1940s became deter- a design by Frank Lloyd Wright, that he opened coming: ‘EGOT, EGOT, EGOT!’ It’s like a monkey mined to be a recording engineer-a profession nearby in 1959. He called “A Love Supreme” the on my back.” Only 12 entertainers in history that barely existed at the time-as he discovered most powerful of his recordings in the 1960s. have joined the EGOT club, including such live jazz in New York and became fascinated by But he said he only reached that conclusion in luminaries as John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn radio. He transformed his parents’ living room in 2002, when he remastered the Coltrane album and-among those still alive-Whoopi Goldberg New Jersey into a recording studio where artists for a digital reissue and finally listened more and Mel Brooks. Menken gets to be the 13th if initially came over from New York for the com- leisurely to the music.— AFP “A New Season,” his song from musical comedy petitive rates, as Van Gelder kept working as an “Galavant,” wins for outstanding original music optometrist to buy gear. and lyrics in September’s Emmy Awards for tel- The immediacy of his sound-which captured evision. Menken hopes the ditty-with its the rawness and subtleties of the instruments- rhyming couplet “We’re gonna have to kill ya if you sing the freakin’ song/It didn’t win an Rudy Van Gelder Emmy, now it’s time to move along”-might tick- le the Television Academy.

‘Oklahoma’ and ‘Carousel’ Born in Manhattan to aspiring actress Judy Menken and her boogie-woogie piano-playing dentist husband Norman, the aspiring maestro grew up watching Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals like “Oklahoma” and “Carousel.” After graduating from NYU in musicology, he formed a writing partnership with Howard Ashman on “Little Shop of Horrors” (1982), which went on to become the highest grossing Off-Broadway show ever. The pair were hired by Disney to write “The Little Mermaid” in 1989 and Menken has since scored many of the studio’s biggest hits, including “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin” and “Pocohontas.” Two years ago, he was approached by the team behind “Sausage Party,” the first R-rated computer-animated feature in history, to lend This file photo shows composer Alan his songwriting chops to a project that would Menken posing after being honored with a be Disney for adults. The movie has been a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in huge critical and commercial hit, but is some- Hollywood, California. — AFP