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POP/ROCK

Concert Fatality: A man dancing on a handrail during a Rolling Stones concert in Pontiac, Mich., slipped and fell 23 feet to his death Tuesday night. Eric Zylema, 31, fell from the Silverdome’s second level to the concrete floor, police said. He was pronounced dead a half-hour later. Witnesses said Zylema had been dancing on the handrail several times, but security had not noticed him because of low lighting during the concert. An autopsy will determine if drugs or alcohol was involved.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Composer Appointed: Orange County’s Pacific Symphony has named Richard Danielpour, 41, as composer-in-residence, beginning in October. The New York City-born Danielpour, whose credits include commissions from the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, Jessye Norman, Dawn Upshaw and Yo-Yo Ma, has served as composer-in-residence with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Seattle Symphony and Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein Festival. As part of his duties, Danielpour will compose two major works for the Pacific, to be recorded by Sony Classical.

Tanglewood Tangles: Shake-ups continued at Massachusetts’ Tanglewood Music Center with the departure this week of artistic director and pianist Leon Fleisher after 12 years. In a letter to Boston Symphony Orchestra music director Seiji Ozawa and symphony board members, Fleisher, who criticized Ozawa and the board’s leadership as “unprofessional, unprincipled, duplicitous and totally self-serving,” said: “I have not resigned. I consider myself to have been relieved of my position.” Boston Symphony administrators could not be reached for comment. Fleisher’s departure comes after months of highly publicized controversy surrounding personnel decisions made by Ozawa, including the forced resignation of longtime music center administrator Richard Ortner and the hiring last month of Ellen Highstein as director of the center, a newly created position.

QUICK TAKES

The first full-length animated feature from Aardman Animations--the claymation studios that launched the Wallace and Gromit characters in such Oscar-winning Nick Park shorts as “A Close Shave”--will be co-financed and distributed by DreamWorks and Pathe. Called “Chicken Run,” the film tells of a group of chickens that makes a bid for freedom to avoid the slaughterhouse. . . . ABC News anchor Peter Jennings and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author Seymour Hersh will answer Internet users’ questions aboutthe career and legacy of John F. Kennedy, during a live chat today at 9:15 a.m. at https://www.ABCNEWS.com.