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World-renowned pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim will join Harvard’s faculty next year as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, the University announced last week...
...DIED. CONSUELO VELAZQUEZ, 84, classically trained Mexican pianist-turned-pop composer, whose sultry World War II-era ballad Besame Mucho became one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, covered by artists including Sammy Davis Jr., Celine Dion, Jose Carreras and The Beatles; in Mexico City. In a 2003 interview, Velazquez revealed that when she wrote the famous lyrics at age 17?"Kiss me over and over, as if this night were the last time"?she had never been kissed...
DIED. CONSUELO VELAZQUEZ, 88, classically trained Mexican pianist turned pop composer whose sultry World War II--era ballad Besame Mucho became one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, covered by such artists as Frank Sinatra and the Beatles; in Mexico City...
...genocide. He only tacitly implies his disconten“Genocide blockbuster” is definitely not the easiest tagline to sell, especially for a film released during the packed holiday film season. It has been accomplished before—by Schindler’s List (1993) and, The Pianist (2002)—with both financial and critical success. Both of these Holocaust films depicted an atrocity with which general audiences felt vindicated and comfortable in their nation’s victorious intervention...
Abbate boasts experience as a pianist and theater performer. She served as the dramaturge for this year’s production of “Don Giovanni” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York...