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...aspiring composers like Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka and Koji Kondo in Japan. Only in his early twenties when he joined Nintendo in 1983, Kondo brought his classical training (and his love for Western rock music) to the "Mario" and "Zelda" franchises, and crafted some of the most memorable tunes to grace early consoles, even with a drastically limited palette.With only five channels of sound output, it was clear that lush instrumentation was not going to be the NES' forte. These technical restrictions of the system's sound chips proved to be the main impetus behind the emergence of a unique, musically...
With a voice as pure as birdsong, she has soared to the top of the charts, becoming New Zealand's biggest-selling female artist. No, we're not talking about Hayley Westenra, the Wellington schoolgirl who took Amazing Grace to Enya-like heights, but the exotic musical hybrid that is Bic Runga. In 2002, a year before Westenra hit her high notes, this Maori-Chinese singer-songwriter took the simple guitar hooks of Drive to a new level with Beautiful Collision, an album in which she exploded genres - from folk to rock to country - with the glassy resonance...
...film, not for 1972's Harvest. Young, in his new balance of power and gentleness, has rarely looked so comfortable in his own boots: confident, proud and resigned to his own mortality. What's ultimately most appealing about Heart of Gold is that Demme captures that state of grace so beautifully...
...back, potential concentrators would find it difficult, if not impossible, to complete all 20 courses required for graduation. But if DEAS decided to buck a delay and maintain the current declaration deadline, potential concentrators would tend to gravitate toward concentrations that allowed an attractive extra semester’s grace period—a result that would unfairly discourage students from concentrating in engineering...
...misfits. The title character of the song “Sukie in the Graveyard” spends her time making grave rubbings, lives illegally in the attic of an art school she’s not enrolled in, and poses for life-drawing classes with “the grace of an eel, sleek and stark.” And when the narrator of “Funny Little Frog” sings to his love that “you’re my picture on the wall/you’re my vision in the hall...