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Lost or Found
Pursuit, escape; submissive, aggressive; matter, mind; searching, finding; materialize, fume; center, disperse; understand, reject; self, mirror less; negation, swallow; artist, being;
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The Life You Give: Teresa Carreño *1853
Teresa Carreño, born María Teresa Gertrudis de Jesús Carreño García on December 22, 1853 in Caracas, is the celebrated Venezuelan pianist of great power and spirit, who was known to her public as the “Valkyrie of the piano.” She was given her first piano lessons by her father, Manuel Antonio Carreño, a politician and talented…
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“The Idol of My Youth” (Zappa on Varèse)
Edgard Varèse: The Idol of My YouthBy Frank ZappaStereo Review, June, 1971 I have been asked to write about Edgard Varèse. I am in no way qualified to. I can’t even pronounce his name right. The only reason I have agreed to is because I love his music very much, and if by some chance…
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The Life You Give: András Schiff *1953
András Schiff is among the most prominent members of a generation of Hungarian pianists born in the years following World War II, along with such artists as Zoltán Kocsis, Dezso Ránki, and Jenö Jandó. Of this remarkable group, Schiff has achieved the strongest international reputation, due not only to his decision to pursue his career…
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Alicia Alonso *XII 21 1920 La Vida Que Das / The Life You Give
Alicia Alonso era la bailarina más icónica de América Latina.Fue una de las más reconocidas bailarinas de ballet y coreógrafas del mundo, cofundadora del BNC y responsable de entrenar a varias generaciones de bailarines durante la revolución cubana. Alonso también participó en la fundación del American Ballet Theatre en Estados Unidos y hasta el final…
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The Life You Give: Jean Genet *1910
Jean Genet, born Dec. 19, 1910, in Paris, France, was a criminal and social outcast turned writer who, as a novelist, transformed erotic and often obscene subject matter into a poetic vision of the universe and, as a dramatist, became a leading figure in the avant-garde theatre, especially the Theatre of the Absurd. Genet, an…
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