Word: wagner
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Sheik Amin, as he is known, was sitting alone in his library, a large, comfortable room with red leather furniture and a grand piano. He likes classical music, particularly Beethoven and Wagner, and has had a small music room built beside the palace tennis court. Amin has not been able to play tennis, his favorite sport, for more than three weeks now, and he misses the exercise. Tonight he is in his casual clothes: an open-neck shirt, windbreaker, slacks and black loafers. The trip to the front has been exhausting, but he is lit up, his color high...
...Lichfield in nearly $1 million worth of diamond, emerald and platinum jewels. The idea for the photos came from Olga Rostropovich, the daughter of Conductor-Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who persuaded a gaggle of international beauties to sparkle for Lichfield. Among them: Princess Caroline of Monaco, Morgan Fairchild and Lindsay Wagner. The ice was provided by Harry Winston, whose army of security guards was as vigilant as Patti's Secret Service men. At first, while posing for the pictures in Los Angeles, she appeared to be put down by all that glitter. "Look at my nose," she reportedly complained...
...movement extend back to Mendelssohn's historic revival of J.S. Bach in 1829. Even so, throughout the last century Bach was known primarily to the most sophisticated musicians, and only a handful of Mozart's myriad works were regularly performed. With composers like Schumann, Brahms and Wagner churning out masterwork after masterwork, there was little need to revive the past. But as the musical repertory gradually evolved into a monument to the 19th century, inquiring performers began to look backward. Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940), an English musician and instrumentmaker, rediscovered the nearly forgotten world of the viol, lute...
...Bach's Goldberg Variations is perhaps the most convincing on discs; American Pianist Malcolm Bilson, one of the leading exponents of classical keyboard music, which he plays on the fortepiano, a predecessor of the modern instrument. "Everybody understands that there must be different sopranos for Mozart and Wagner," says Bilson, explaining the desirability of matching instrument to composer. "It has nothing to do with musicality...
...film that is the length of Wagner's Ring will be without its longueurs, and this one falls into a second-act slump that lasts about three hours. But the best and the most of Berlin is the best that Fassbinder-or just about anyone else lately-has done. He balances the weight of Döblin's carefully repetitious dialogue with the buoyancy of his creamy, elegiac visual style. He interrupts the naturalism of lives on the skids with scenes of shocking surrealism: an old goat-man slaughters a calf; Mieze's corpse turns to soft...