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...Music Mozart, Beethoven and Bach are my favorites as a piano player. I find modern music atonal, but a composer like Beethoven is soothing and melodious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iwan Tirta's Short List | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...early stages have lasted a long time. E-readers have been around for more than a decade, but the devices weren't popular due to high cost, proprietary display formats and the reluctance of book publishers to sell digital versions of their best-selling titles. Now, just as digital music was driven into the mainstream by Apple's iPod and iTunes, Amazon's Kindle and online bookstore, which sells more than 350,000 titles, are proving there's a mass market for e-books. Total industry revenue from digital-book downloads has risen 149% this year, according to the Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kindle Killers? The Boom in New E-Readers | 10/11/2009 | See Source »

Wind ensembles occupy a special position in the musical tradition, blending the refinement of high music with the spirit of the modern day. Students ought to realize that Harvard is uniquely placed to offer a rich musical experience that is often underappreciated by those looking for good music. Even if Bach or Britney is more to your taste, it is worthwhile to explore an area of music that is much more far-ranging than “three cheers for the red, white, and blue...

Author: By Bilal A. Siddiqui | Title: Winds and Brass Forever | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

Last weekend, more than 10,000 visitors thronged Taybeh village for the fifth annual Oktoberfest, a celebration of music, dance, food and beer. Villagers sold more olive oil, honey, embroidery and other items in those two days than in the whole of 2009. But it wasn't easy for Taybeh to learn to thrive - and still isn't. After a promising start, business collapsed during the Palestinian intifada uprising. The Khoury brothers weathered the storm but new restrictions at the Israeli security barrier have now turned what used to be an hour-long delivery to Tel Aviv into an expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Palestinian Brewery Grows in the West Bank | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...That was music to the ears of many Tories, straight and gay, who have been trying for years to modernize their party. In 2000 Christina Dykes launched Absolutely Equal, a conference event that ran for a number of years and was supported by several minority-rights organizations, in an attempt to broaden her colleagues' focus. "After the bad defeats in 1997 and 2001, the party closed in on itself," she says. "We were just talking to ourselves." Matthew Parris, now a prominent writer and broadcaster, served as a Tory Parliament member during the Thatcher era and remembers when organizers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nasty No More? Britain's Tories Reach Out to Gays | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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