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...biggest upset in the specialty categories was the Best Foreign Language Film win for the Japanese Departures, about an out-of-work musician who takes a job preparing corpses at a funeral home. It emerged victorious over, among others, the French school drama - and Palme d'Or winner - The Class (Entre les Murs) and the odds-on-favorite, Waltz with Bashir, the Israeli animated documentary. Both films had earned critical raves in the States. Nobody, though, was startled that the Oscar for Best Animated Feature went to WALL-E, or that Man on Wire was voted Best Documentary Feature...
...Ward plays the kind of folk music that you could expect from a musician writing and performing out in Portland, Oregon, interspersing his songs with neat guitar licks and elegant pop melodies that bring to mind a cultured city. On the singer-songwriter’s new album “Hold Time,” the bucolic passion that imbues the most moving of folk albums makes a strong presence. On the edge of the soundscape are Beach Boys-esque surf-rock melodies and guitar arpeggios that tumble in like the Pacific surf. “Hold Time?...
...Ward isn't on your radar yet, he should be. The soft-spoken Portland, Oregon musician has released seven solo albums, toured with Norah Jones, co-produced a Jenny Lewis album, and recently teamed up with actress Zooey Deschanel to make one of the best folk-pop albums of 2008. Ward doesn't write songs so much as he makes melodies with words; the tunes will stick with you long after they've left your ears. His latest album, Hold Time, comes out Feb. 17. M. Ward talks to TIME about his songwriting process, living in Portland...
...musicians, the debate over what defines the Stradivarius sound and the underlying causes for this uniqueness may soon be academic, as private collectors drive the price beyond their reach. "The era when musicians could afford their own Strad is coming to an end," Ehnes says. The concert violinist Cho-Liang Lin says the Stradivarius he bought for $300,000 25 years ago is probably worth $3 million now. He points to the sale of recently deceased cellist Mstislav Rostropovich's Duport Stradivarius, which trade publications recently put at $20 million. "There's no way even a highly successful young musician...
...said to me, “Yo-Yo, you’ve just got to stop thinking that your profession is an interruption of your life.” Music is part of my life, but there’s a life separate from my life as a musician, and that actually is more of my identity. It wasn’t until five years ago that I realized that my real passion is people.THC: So maybe you would have been a politician?YYM: No. No! I would not be a politician. I love people, but politicians deal with...