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What this book brings to the already crowded domain of Hawking lore is a rather successful merger of biography and physics. As it traces the course of Hawking's life, it pauses occasionally to prepare the reader for the mind- boggling complexities of relativity theory and the even more bizarre...
To borrow a term from Hollywood, Kathleen Battle's recent albums have been very high-concept. Their glossy appeal can be pitched in fewer than 10 words: Kathleen Battle and ((another famous musician)) perform ((mainstream repertory)). Thus last year Battle teamed up with soprano Jessye Norman in a program of...
Is there anything wrong with this? Not exactly. Battle is our reigning lyric coloratura soprano, and Marsalis, a prodigy who continues to grow as both a classical musician and a jazzman, makes a worthy collaborator. It is hard not to be dazzled and delighted by the pyrotechnics they provide in...
Although he rarely goes to Liverpool today, McCartney is lead patron of a fund-raising effort to turn his old school, Liverpool Institute, into a Fame- type training ground for the musically talented. When the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic asked him to help mark its 150th anniversary, he ventured into classical...
Von Trier will never be nailed on that rap. He passionately promotes himself and European movies. At last year's Cannes festival, when this film lost out to the Hollywood comedy Barton Fink, Von Trier threw a snit fit, angrily claiming that his movie was bolder and better. He was...