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...Room tells a wrenching story - of a happy family riven by the teenage son's death - in acutely somber vignettes that avoid the seductions of sentimentality and melodrama. The Piano Teacher stirs up a tasty poison porridge of lusts and hatreds between a precocious pianist (Benoît Magimel) and his stern tutor (Isabelle Huppert); in chic, lurid images it suggests that teachers, perhaps all adults, try to express and exorcise their frustrations by dominating their charges. In coarser hands, this tale of obsession and self-mutilation could be ludicrous from the start; in these hands it is goofy only...
...jazz pianist and a writer, predominantly for children's theatre...
...Atlantis voyage and launched the Magellan probe that mapped the surface of Venus; in Houston, Texas. Walker also flew on three other U.S. space shuttle missions, including the 1984 Discovery, which was the first successful attempt at retrieving satellites from orbit. DIED. ISAAC ("IKE") COLE, 73, jazz pianist and composer and brother of the late Nat ("King") Cole; in Sun Lakes, Arizona. Cole, who once considered changing his name to differentiate himself from his more famous brother, played keyboard on Unforgettable, the Grammy-winning 1992 tribute album by Nat's daughter Natalie Cole...
...corporeally total experience, rather than a nexus between limbs and the mind. Alternately, when not gliding around the performers, Trueba breaks his musicians down into their component parts, focusing on agile fingers and tapping nimble feet. He savors the contradiction inherent in the great hulking character that is pianist Chucho Valdes. Valdes is an imposing, giant of a man both in height and in sheer solidity, not to mention musical reputation in the jazz community. His playing is an incomparable mixture of Cuban and North American impulses. Trueba reels in close on his mammoth hands, as they span octaves...
Robert Levin ’68 served as a last minute replacement for pianist Alfred Brendel with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) this weekend after Brendel was rendered unable to perform due to an arm injury...