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7 hours ago · Composers such as Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, George Bizet, Gabriel Faure, Claude Debussy, and Maurice Ravel credited Schumann with influencing their work, as well as major Russian composers such as Anton Rubinstein and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
7 hours ago · Japan from centuries ago. Italy in black and white. Brisbane in the 80s. Another multiverse. Another wasteland, too. These are some of the places that 2024's best new television shows across its first six months have taken viewers — be it with laughs, heart, thrills, scheming, bloodshed, ghouls or multiple Joel Edgertons.
7 hours ago · The culture of English cricket continues to view their performance in one series as the barometer. “We probably define our sense of worth too much by winning and losing Ashes series,” Andrew Strauss said in 2015, when he was England’s director of cricket. Since the World Test Championship launched five years ago, little has changed.
7 hours ago · Inventions of A Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalisation, Verso, May 2024 - now published The giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation.…
7 hours ago · Although Richard Strauss was 80 or so when he composed his Four Last Songs and Claude Debussy was in his 20s when he wrote his Ariettes oubliées, they sit comfortably next to each other, especially in Brett Dean’s orchestration of the Debussy. Clive Paget caught up with Martín and Stagg to learn more.
1 day ago · Early life and education The National Institute of Dramatic Art in Kensington, New South Wales, where Blanchett studied Catherine Élise Blanchett was born on 14 May 1969 in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe. Her Australian mother, June (née Gamble), was a property developer and teacher; and her American father, Robert DeWitt Blanchett Jr., a Texas native, was a United States Navy Chief Petty ...
44 minutes ago · FILE – Jason Momoa, left, and Lisa Bonet, right, arrive at the premiere of “Aquaman” at TCL Chinese Theatre, Dec. 12, 2018, in Los Angeles. On Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, Bonet filed for divorce from Momoa, 18 years after the two actors became a couple. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
