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...Buddhist, she told an interviewer she rises each day at 4:30 a.m. for meditation and reads voraciously. Neighbors said she once played Mozart on the family piano, but the music stopped early in her detention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aung San Suu Kyi | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...manner of embellishments, fast scales and long trills. The playlist judiciously balances pieces that appeal to the aesthete yet remain accessible to the opera-ignorant: most of the extracts - performed for a couple of minutes at approximately 15-minute intervals - are familiar arias by Verdi, Rossini, Bizet and Mozart. (See 10 things to do in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music For Your Mouth at London's Bel Canto | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...Queen Elizabeth awards a stately manor, on one condition: "Do not fade, do not wither, do not grow old." Over his 400-year life, Orlando is a man, then a woman, then a bit of both - the two sexes evolved into one. Swinton had played men before: she was Mozart in a production of Pushkin's Mozart and Salieri, and in the play and film Man to Man she was a woman in Nazi Germany who assumes her dead husband's identity. Once, at an airport security checkpoint, she was herded into the men's line. With her short hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Tilda Swinton is the Queen of the Indies | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

...singing foreign operas in English and setting classics in the more recent past - last season saw Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème staged in the fragile interwar period of 1930s Paris. But while other European opera houses experiment with extreme directorial conceits - Germany's Komische Oper recently performed Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio in an S&M torture chamber - the ENO has found a way to make old favorites feel revitalized rather than remade. "We have to remember what made these classics great in the first place," Berry explains. (See pictures of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Night at the Opera | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...says studying music “affected how I approached the musical projects that I got to do on campus, enjoying doing new music of Harvard student composers, working with them, thinking about what exactly are we doing when we play a piece from the mid-nineteenth century or Mozart. What’s going on? Why do we enjoy it so much? What’s there?” Aside from the academic study of music, Kapusta has had many rewarding extracurricular highlights. He refers to conducting the Harvard Ballet company as “an artistic high?...

Author: By Kerry A. Goodenow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: John D. Kapusta ’09 | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

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