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As if every trip signified the end of a stage in my life, which the journey turns into an irreparable loss. It doesn’t matter if the reason for the trip is pleasure and enjoyment. That sensation, a mixture of failure, melancholy and anticipated nostalgia, always accompanies me when I set out on a trip. On the way to Torrejón airport, I read El País and Les Inrocks. And I feel a sudden, urgent need to read all the books that are reviewed in Babelia, the literary supplement. When I reach the airport, I start to take the first notes accompanied by the agreeable presence of the Slaves of El Deseo (Bárbara Peiró, my Intermediary with the Outside World, Lola García, Responsible for Internal Affairs, Esther García, El Deseo’s Director of Production), my brother Agustín, his wife Casilda and a whirlwind called Bibiana, who arrives in a flurry because of her extremely busy Monagesque agenda.
Broken Embraces. Volver. Volver (Spanish pronunciation: [bolˈβer], meaning "to go back") is a 2006 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Headed by actress Penélope Cruz, the film features an ensemble cast also starring Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, and Chus Lampreave. Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid, Cruz plays Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula. To top off the family crisis, her mother Irene comes back from the dead to tie up loose ends. The plot originates in Almodóvar's earlier film The Flower of My Secret (1995), where it features as a novel which is rejected for publication but is stolen to form the screenplay of a film named The Freezer.
Plot[edit] Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) and Soledad (Lola Dueñas) are sisters who grew up in Alcanfor de las Infantas, a small village in La Mancha, but now both live in Madrid. Cast[edit] Production[edit] Talk to Her. Talk to Her (Spanish: Hable con ella) is a 2002 Spanish drama written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, and Rosario Flores. The film won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the 2003 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign-Language Film.
The film's themes include the difficulty of communication between the sexes, loneliness and intimacy, and the persistence of love beyond loss. Plot[edit] During a dance recital, Benigno Martín and Marco Zuluaga cross paths but the two men are no more than strangers, but Benigno notices that Marco cries. Marco is a journalist and travel writer who happens to see a TV interview of Lydia González, a famous matador. Benigno keeps telling Marco that he should talk to Lydia, because despite the fact that they are in a coma, women understand and react to men’s problems. Meanwhile, Alicia has begun rehabilitation to recover her ability to walk and dance. Cast[edit] Wins. All About My Mother. All About My Mother (Spanish: Todo sobre mi madre) is a 1999 Spanish-French comedy-drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The film deals with complex issues such as AIDS, homosexuality, transsexualism, faith, and existentialism.
The plot originates in Almodóvar's earlier film The Flower of My Secret which shows student doctors being trained in how to persuade grieving relatives to allow organs to be used for transplant, focusing on the mother of a teenager killed in a road accident. Plot[edit] The film centers on Manuela, a nurse who oversees donor organ transplants in Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid and single mother to Esteban, a teenager who wants to be a writer. In Barcelona, Manuela reunites with her old friend Agrado, a warm and witty transsexual prostitute.
Manuela introduces Esteban (Rosa's son) to Lola and gives her a picture of their own Esteban. Cast[edit] Production[edit] Almodóvar dedicates his film "To all actresses who have played actresses. Release[edit]
Orhan Pamuk. Pamuk in his personal writing space Ferit Orhan Pamuk (generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk; born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists,[1] his work has sold over eleven million books in sixty languages,[2] making him the country's best-selling writer.[3] As well as the Nobel Prize in Literature (the first Nobel Prize to be awarded to a Turkish citizen), Pamuk is the recipient of numerous other literary awards.
My Name Is Red won the 2002 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, 2002 Premio Grinzane Cavour and 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The European Writers' Parliament came about as a result of a joint proposal by Pamuk and José Saramago.[5] In 2005, Pamuk was put on trial in Turkey after he made a statement regarding the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Early life[edit] Work[edit] My Name Is Red[edit] Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time. Snow (novel) Snow is precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice. Snow may also refer to: The Museum of Innocence. The Museum of Innocence (Turkish: Masumiyet Müzesi) is a novel by Orhan Pamuk, Nobel-laureate Turkish novelist published on August 29, 2008. The book is an account of love between a wealthy businessman Kemal and a poorer distant relation Füsun during the period 1975 to 1984 in Istanbul. Kemal’s engagement to a pretty girl Sibel is in two months time when he meets shop girl Füsun while buying a handbag for his fiancee.
What follows in next month and a half is an intense and secretive physical and emotional relation between them. Kemal’s happiest moment of life comes while making love the day Füsun confesses her deep love for him. Pamuk said he used YouTube to research Turkish music and film while preparing the novel.[1] In the writing of this book, Pamuk was influenced by the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan, Italy, as he noted in the museum's guestbook on June 27, 2007: “It is the third time that I have visited this extraordinary museum.
The building that houses the Museum of Innocence. Istanbul: Memories of a City. First edition Istanbul: Memories and the City (İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir) is a largely autobiographical memoir by Orhan Pamuk that is deeply melancholic. It talks about the vast cultural change that has rocked Turkey – the unending battle between the modern and the receding past. It is also a eulogy to the lost joint family tradition. Most of all, it is a book about Bosphorus and Istanbul's history with the strait. It was translated into English by Maureen Freely in 2005. Pamuk wrote the book when he was on the verge of depression. In an interview he recalled: "My life, because of so many things, was in a crisis; I don’t want to go into those details: divorce, father dying, professional problems, problems with this, problems with that, everything was bad.
His family was furious about their portrayal, especially his brother.[1] Pamuk said that he lost him because of the book, and agreed that he may have hurt the feelings of his mother also.[1] References[edit]
Jazz. Vince Guaraldi. Early career and Grammy Award[edit] Guaraldi left the group early in 1959 to pursue his own projects full-time. He probably would have remained a well-respected but minor jazz figure had he not written an original number to fill out his covers of Antonio Carlos Jobim/Luis Bonfá tunes on his 1962 album, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus, inspired by the French/Brazilian film Black Orpheus, which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Fantasy Records released "Samba de Orpheus" as a single, trying to catch the building bossa nova wave, but it was destined to sink without a trace when radio DJs began flipping it over and playing the B-side, Guaraldi's "Cast Your Fate to the Wind". A gentle, likeable tune, it stood out from everything else on the airwaves and became a grass-roots hit.
It also won the Grammy for Best Original Jazz Composition. Compositions for Charles Schulz's Peanuts[edit] Death[edit] Guaraldi died at age 47 on February 6, 1976. Legacy[edit] David Benoit[edit] Miles Davis. Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century,[3] Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz fusion.
Miles Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.[4] Davis was noted as "one of the key figures in the history of jazz".[4] On October 7, 2008, his 1959 album Kind of Blue received its fourth platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of at least four million copies in the United States.[5] On December 15, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a symbolic resolution recognizing and commemorating the album Kind of Blue on its 50th anniversary, "honoring the masterpiece and reaffirming jazz as a national treasure".[6] Life and career[edit]
John Coltrane. John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),[1] was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and was later at the forefront of free jazz. He organized at least fifty recording sessions as a leader during his career, and appeared as a sideman on many other albums, notably with trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk. As his career progressed, Coltrane and his music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension. His second wife was pianist Alice Coltrane and their son Ravi Coltrane is also a saxophonist. Biography[edit] Coltrane's first recordings were made when he was a sailor. Early life and career (1926–1954)[edit] An important moment in the progression of Coltrane's musical development occurred on June 5, 1945, when he saw Charlie Parker perform for the first time.
There are recordings of Coltrane from as early as 1945.
Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected throughout Europe during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest and performances of his music in the first half of the nineteenth century. He is now generally regarded as one of the main composers of the Baroque period, and as one of the greatest composers of all time.[10] Life Childhood (1685–1703) At the age of 14, Bach, along with his older school friend George Erdmann, was awarded a choral scholarship to study at the prestigious St. Michael's School in Lüneburg in the Principality of Lüneburg.[19] Although it is not known for certain, the trip was likely taken mostly on foot.[18] His two years there were critical in exposing him to a wider facet of European culture.
While in Lüneburg, Bach had access to St. Weimar, Arnstadt, and Mühlhausen (1703–08) In January 1703, shortly after graduating from St. In 1706, Bach was offered a post as organist at St. Köthen (1717–23) The J.S. Bach Home Page. Glenn Gould. Glenn Gould Glenn Herbert Gould[fn 1][fn 2] (25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982) was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century.[1] He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture of Bach's music. Gould was also known as a writer, composer, conductor, and broadcaster. He was a prolific contributor to musical journals, in which he discussed music theory and outlined his musical philosophy.
Life[edit] Early life[edit] Gould's interest in music and his talent as a pianist became evident very early. It was Hofmann. Glenn Gould with his teacher, Alberto Guerrero, demonstrating Guerrero's technical idea that Gould should pull down at keys instead of striking them from above. Gould the pianist[edit] Gould was known for having a vivid imagination. Performances[edit] Sergei Rachmaninoff. Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов;[1] Russian pronunciation: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej rɐxˈmanʲɪnəf]; 1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943)[2] was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor.[3] Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.[4] Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a personal style notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness and his use of rich orchestral colors.[5] The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output, and through his own skills as a performer he explored the expressive possibilities of the instrument.
Life[edit] Rachmaninoff at age 10 Childhood and youth[edit] Zverev's students in the late 1880s. Rachmaninoff at the piano, in the early 1900s, before he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory. Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff) - Wikipedia, the free encycl. The Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, composed in 1909 by Sergei Rachmaninoff has the reputation of being one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire. The beginning of the opening theme of the Piano Concerto No. 3 Following the form of a standard concerto, the piece is in three movements: A portion of the original cadenza (ossia) Rachmaninoff, under pressure, and hoping to make his work more popular, authorized several cuts in the score, to be made at the performer's discretion. These cuts, particularly in the second and third movements, were commonly taken in performance and recordings during the initial decades following the Concerto's publication.
More recently, it has become commonplace to perform the concerto without cuts. A typical performance of the complete concerto lasts about forty minutes. Proofing copies of the concerto (1910) The concerto is respected, even feared, by many pianists. W.R.
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