Word: musician
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...mythological Orpheus committed the grievous sin of loving too much. In the face of death and disbelief, the great musician's undying affection for his muse proved to be her demise. Williams' modern incarnation of the doomed Eurydice is Lady Torrence (played by Melanie Martinez), the proud daughter of a "wop bootlegger who burned to death in his orchard...
...When I compose I try to evoke a sense of the delicate nuances in nature... the moment by moment changes in a scene," the 61 year old musician said at yesterday's lecture with the aid of his manager and Japanese-English translator Peter Grilli...
...after a 35-year career, the self-taught musician looks back on the fruits of this initial inspiration including scores for the well-known Japanese movies "Ran," "Kwaiden" and Hiri Kire," among many others. One of these, "Dodes kaden," was shown at the Carpenter Center on Tuesday...
...those films are memorialized in Tarantino's own. "People ask if my love of movies can be too much," he says. "What annoys me about the question is the snobbery; it treats movies like a bastard art form. Could a novelist ever read too many books, or a musician listen to too much music? Well, I totally love movies...
Divorced in 1982 from fellow musician Eric Taylor after a six-year marriage, she lives alone, either at her century-old farmhouse outside Nashville, Tennessee, or in her loft in downtown Dublin, where she is a wildly popular member of the burgeoning Irish country-folk scene. Most of the time she travels, which is where she gets her best musical ideas. "I do most of my writing on the road," she says. "It doesn't matter where I am. It all comes at one time, words and music. I think of my songs as little gifts that I reach...