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- Nico Muhly looks for that radical sound (Los Angeles Times)
The composer's young career shows an adventurous streak, including stints with Philip Glass and Björk. His newest is 'Mothertongue.' THE FIRST vocal lines of young composer Nico Muhly’s new album, "Mothertongue," consist of a seemingly arbitrary list of numbers and addresses. Sung by mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer over aching strings and a distorted sub-bass synthesizer, the arrangement feels ...
- Voices of Faith: June 28, 2008 (The Record Searchlight)
First, our just retired pastor has been a member of the Interfaith Council since its inception. This includes lay and professional people of Christian, Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist, Islam and Greek Orthodox faiths.
- Hip-Hop Culture: An Alternative View - Jamestown Post Journal
Hip-Hop Culture: An Alternative ViewJamestown Post Journal, NY - 2 hours agoThere is ''emceeing,'' or rapping, DJing, B-Boys/B-Girls, and poetry, commonly known as ''floetry.'' Among all these parts are three categories - commercial ...
- Kay Ryan Named US Poet Laureate (Arts Journal)
"Known for her sly, compact poems that revel in wordplay and internal rhymes, Ms. Ryan has won a carriage full of poetry prizes for her funny and philosophical work, including awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1994, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, worth $100,000."
- Still smarting about poetry - Port Phillip Leader
Port Phillip LeaderStill smarting about poetryPort Phillip Leader, Australia - 6 hours agoHe started performing his poetry as a 20-year-old at a night organised by his sister in Ballarat. Smart loves performing poetry and is looking forward to ...
- What lies beneath? - Kuwait Times
What lies beneath?Kuwait Times, Kuwait - 3 hours agoWe would have to stop sleeping and living a leisurely life without a sense of responsibility toward Kuwait, beside reciting poetry and praising Kuwait and ...
- A musical masterpiece (The Star-Ledger)
A pipe organ is like a living creature; its bellows are "lungs" that breathe with each performance. If the Ocean Grove Great Auditorium organ -- one of the nation's largest -- were to celebrate its long life with a birthday cake this week, it would have to blow out 100 candles.
- The Ivory Ceiling: How Academia Keeps Women Out - Feministe
The Ivory Ceiling: How Academia Keeps Women OutFeministe - 1 hour agoAre you producing acclaimed fiction or poetry, garnering citations, reading at conferences, taking an active role in professional associations? ...
- Site navigation (Reading Evening Post)
The representation of sexuality in Indian religion is to be explored during Asian Arts Week. Dubbed Queer Asian Life, the exhibition will look at lesbian, gay and transgender identities from the world of Indian deities historically to present day representations.
- Pak poet Ahmed Faraz dies at 77 - Times of India
MUMBAI: The Urdu feminist writer Ismat Chughtai once recalled meeting a young poet in Moscow. "He isn't the usual betel-chewing, kurta-pyjama-clad poet. He is smartly dressed and can dance with the girls," she remarked. Non-conformist in his views ...
- Remember When: Sub skipper had no time for heroes at war's end (Vero Press Journal)
In July 1945, just weeks before the Japanese surrendered to end the war in the Pacific, my new submarine, USS Diablo, was in her last stages of training before starting her first war patrol. The realistic training mission, conducted on the surface, was to find and "rescue" two aviators in a rubber life raft on a windy, dark, moonless night, 30 miles south of Pearl Harbor in the Pacific. This ...
- Curtain Up - nextbook
nextbookCurtain Upnextbook, NY - 3 hours agoDid it have any influence on poetry or literature? Actually it was the reverse. The Theater was influenced by the classics of Yiddish poetry and literature, ...
- Funny man: David Sedaris (The New Zealand Herald)
David Sedaris is funny, no question about it. But is he as funny as he used to be? The US humorist has been making a living from publishing collections of essays since the 90s and is a regular in the New Yorker and on best-seller lists.
- Jacques Hétu: The Joy of Composing - La Scena Musicale
Jacques Hétu: The Joy of ComposingLa Scena Musicale, Canada - 2 hours agoNelligan’s poetry touches him. He isn’t indifferent to the poet’s pain, which he feels almost as if it were his own. The painful and troubled world of ...
- Happy Bloomsday! - Sunday Paper
Happy Bloomsday!Sunday Paper, GA - 1 hour ago... it might help to remember the poetry of William Butler Yeats and WH Auden, or the prose of Jonathan Swift, or of course the stories of that fabulously ...How 'Leopold Bloom' Shaped One Author's Odyssey NPRall 7 news articles
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