Word: mozarts
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...series of works with the intention of sending the audience to sleep. The concert, to be held at the Tokyo International Forum, is a live rendition of music selected for a Japan Airlines in-flight audio relaxation channel. The pieces, which include Schubert's Ave Maria and a Mozart Divertimento, were tested by a physician specializing in sleeping disorders and compiled into Good Sleep CD: Dreams - a hugely popular album in sleep-deprived, stressed-out Japan...
...creating eerily emotive characters. The other wordless film, a dark spin on Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf using puppets and digital imagery, took home the gold statue. The live-action category includes an austere British western, The Tonto Woman; a Danish cancer weepie, At Night; and the winner, Mozart of Pickpockets, about a deaf-mute child who charms a pair of thieves...
...salesman Roy Preston from radio broadcasts of Kapell's final tour. A selection of those recordings is now being released in a two-disc set, WILLIAM KAPELL REDISCOVERED. Here, Kapell powerfully revisits some of his previously recorded repertory, especially Rachmaninoff and Mussorgsky, and displays a deepening mastery of Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Debussy. Preston, alas, was no audio engineer; his recordings hiss and crackle. But fortunately only the sound of the piano is marred. Kapell's talent comes blazing through...
When Knowles was at his finest, hand-written notes from the dean blanketed Cambridge like leaves in the fall. Each letter frequently contained a stick figure scribbled on the page, either expressing appreciation or dismay. Other times the Mozart fan would sketch violins...
...worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had. My romance for artists is more about their work than their lifestyle. It's interesting when people are beautiful or have romantic lives, but any of these people, whether it's Jim Morrison or Coltrane or Mozart or whoever I like, I don't like them because they had a self-destructive aspect or died young, I like them because they did great work...