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5 months, 1 week ago

Column: ‘Retire and go back under a rock’: Biden loyalists push back on my call for Joe to get tested

LA Times

President Biden makes opening remarks during the NATO summit in Washington on Wednesday, seated between British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. “I never give much credence to polls, but Biden still does better against Trump than others,” said Kuehl, who added that the chaos of “changing horses in midstream” would do more damage to …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Maestro: The dualities of Leonard Bernstein

Hindustan Times

One of 2023’s most audacious films was a queasy drama where a self-serious actor attempted to slip into the physicality of a real-life subject in an ill-judged body-snatch for a vanity biopic. Maestro felt more like a big-screen slow clap for Bradley Cooper’s multitasking than Leonard Bernstein’s music. Leonard Bernstein’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Why the search for the next Gustavo Dudamel is full of hope — and hazards

LA Times

The excited media coverage last week of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s choice for a new music director treated 28-year-old Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä like the second coming of Gustavo Dudamel. Salonen was 26 when he made his U.S. debut conducting the L.A. Phil in 1984, and eight years later he became music director, staying 17 seasons. Each conductor had prominent …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Trump busts the myth behind the MAGA rich

Salon

"Is Corporate America in Denial About Trump?" Trump went there at a fancy fundraiser because he believed that, as racist as the Bud Light-boycotting crowd at his rallies might be, he'd find an even more appreciative audience for his blunt "whites only" message among the private jet people. Sadly, because the press thinks Trump's white nationalism is "old news," his …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

Concertgebouw Orchestra kicks off new season with free concert in Amsterdam

NL Times

The Concertgebouw Orchestra will open the 2024/2025 season on September 13 with a free, open-access concert in the middle of Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer, in Nelson Mandela Park. The orchestra also kicked off the new cultural season earlier with open-air performances in the capital, for example, on Dam Square. The now 28-year-old Finn will also conduct the orchestra several times during the …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

L.A. Phil’s 2024-25 lineup (Dudamel’s penultimate season) includes Mahler, a Seoul Festival and more John Williams

LA Times

The 2024-25 season will be Gustavo Dudamel’s penultimate with the L.A. Phil before he departs for the New York Philharmonic in 2026. “Gustavo is always exploring connections between the core repertoire and our city,” Meghan Umber, L.A. Phil’s chief content officer, wrote in an email, noting that Dudamel “has curated three orchestral programs that explore different sides of Mahler — …

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1 year ago

Body language expert reveals subtle clues about how Australia's most powerful leaders are feeling in a group photo - and singles out one who looked like an 'awkward school girl'

Daily Mail

A body language expert has singled out Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk for looking incredibly 'awkward' during a meeting with state leaders. However while most of the leaders looked calm, collected and professional, body language expert Dr Louise Mahler told Daily Mail Australia that Ms Palaszczuk looked like an 'awkward schoolgirl'. Body language expert Dr Louise Mahler pointed out the key …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Body language expert reveals how Anthony Albanese was 'manic' with excitement to meet Xi Jinping - but the Chinese president was feeling very different

Daily Mail

She said Albanese looked excited while Xi was disinterested A body language expert claimed Anthony Albanese appeared to be 'manic' with excitement during his meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping. First photo: Body language expert Dr Louise Mahler explains Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was 'making all the moves' in his meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping Second photo: Mr Albanese …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Commentary: At 86, Zubin Mehta reflects on his career, Mahler and the ‘Mehta Sound’

LA Times

Zubin Mehta walks onstage more slowly than he did in his youthful, dashing days and is helped by a cane. Zubin Mehta conducts the L.A. Philharmonic in Mahler’s Third Symphony at Walt Disney Concert Hall Where does Mehta Sound come from? He once came to my performance of Mahler’s Fifth and didn’t like it.” Zubin Mehta conducts the L.A. Phil …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Book Review: ‘In Search of Lost Time: Mahler after Proust’ and James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ by Nicolas Mahler

The Hindu

Published : Mar 09, 2023 10:40 IST “Swann in Love”, the first section of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, not only sets out the varied themes of the magnum opus but can also serve as a stand-alone novel. In Search of Lost Time: Mahler after Proust Nicholas Mahler; translated by Alexander Booth Seagull Books Pages: 174 Price: …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Todd Field on 'Tár,' Cate Blanchett and 'Twister' sequel

LA Times

Writer-director Todd Field made two acclaimed films in the early 2000s and then disappeared from the big screen for 16 years. In this episode of “The Envelope,” Field breaks down how a Górecki composition inspired the internal rhythm of lead character Lydia Tár and discusses what it was like collaborating with star Cate Blanchett, who “always wants to do things …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Review: The Israel Philharmonic was led by the same conductor for 40-plus years. His successor shines in L.A. debut

LA Times

The Israel Philharmonic, founded the day after Christmas in 1936 as the Palestine Symphony and first conducted by Arturo Toscanini, cannot escape history. Saturday night the Israel Philharmonic performed for the first time at the Soraya, as part of the orchestra’s first overseas tour since the pandemic. This is the orchestra’s first tour with its young and electrifying new music …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Berlin conductor Petrenko worried `no one needs us anymore’

Associated Press

Kirill Petrenko thought back to the spring of 2020, when his first season as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic was abruptly stopped by the coronavirus pandemic. When concerts resumed with a chamber-sized orchestra in Berlin’s empty Philharmonie that May 1 with a digital feed, Petrenko likened it to when Glenn Gould abandoned playing piano live and retreated to the …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Body language expert reveals six signs your dating a narcissist

Daily Mail

She says they will always take centre stage and will tear others down to get there She says when narcissists smile it 'never reaches their eyes' and is a red flag A body language expert has revealed the top six signs you are dating a narcissist - and it has nothing to do with how often they gaze at their …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Older people left out as UN speeches repeatedly invoke young

Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — One after another, the world’s presidents and prime ministers came to warn of their countries’ trials and tout their triumphs. “Older persons are pretty much missing,” said Claudia Mahler, one of the few voices at the U.N. devoted to aging, in the Commission on Human Rights. “Everybody is only focusing on youth,” said Mahler, whose official U.N. …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Review: Brad Mehldau’s new challenging, experimental album

Associated Press

“Jacob’s Ladder,” Brad Mehldau Brad Mehldau’s new album includes a cover of the Rush song “Tom Sawyer,” which brings to mind Mark Twain, which brings to mind a quote attributed to Twain regarding the music of Mahler: “It’s better than it sounds.” That critique could apply here. He’s also drawn to a genre that could be called restless-soul music – …

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3 years, 1 month ago

The art of songwriting

China Daily

Chinese composer and pianist Ding Shande at his home in Shanghai in 1980. Yu Long, who was classically trained in Germany, led the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in a performance of art songs by Ding and Gustav Mahler at a concert held on Jan 15 in Shanghai. In 1934, Ding recorded Chinese composer He Luting's piano solo works: Buffalo Boy's Little …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Gustavo Dudamel and Cynthia Erivo lead a great L.A. Phil gala

LA Times

Homecoming can easily turn fraught. A pop star made an appearance with three songs, one of them being Leonard Bernstein’s evergreen “Somewhere.” An upbeat short new piece commissioned by a familiar composer opened the program. That’s right, no glittery confetti celebrating the momentous occasion of the L.A. Phil’s first concert back in Walt Disney Concert Hall since March 8, 2020. …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Symphony elaborates on Mahler's China variations

China Daily

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra performs a concert featuring complementary works by Gustav Mahler and Ye Xiaogang. The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra kicked off its 2021-22 season on Sept 4, with a concert entitled The Song of the Earth. However, the concert featured the same pieces as on the recording: Austrian composer Gustav Mahler's song symphony Das Lied von der Erde, and Ye …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Symphony elaborates on Mahler's China variations

China Daily

At the news conference, Professor Huang Liaoyu of Peking University shared the story of how he and his mentor, Professor Yan Baoyu, traced the lyrics of Gustav Mahler, from the German translation to the original Chinese poems, and found that "huge differences exist between the Tang Dynasty poems and the German versions referenced in the Mahler symphony". Traditional Chinese poems …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Symphony elaborates on Mahler's China variations

China Daily

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra performs a concert featuring complementary works by Gustav Mahler and Ye Xiaogang. The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra kicked off its 2021-22 season on Sept 4, with a concert entitled The Song of the Earth. However, the concert featured the same pieces as on the recording: Austrian composer Gustav Mahler's song symphony Das Lied von der Erde, and Ye …

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3 years, 8 months ago

This Robot Could Help Fulfill Your Online Shopping Sprees

Wired

Imagine for a moment that you have suction cups for fingertips—unless you’re currently on hallucinogens, in which case you should not imagine that. “In our case, the examples are not images, but actually 3D objects with robust grasp points on them,” says Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg, who developed Dex-Net and cofounded Ambi Robotics. “As humans, we're able to really infer …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Born from the tragedies of 1968, Berio’s miraculous ‘Sinfonia’ still resonates

LA Times

Everyone is asking, or predicting, “what’s next.” That’s what you do in a pandemic. When now?” And Luciano Berio, applying Mahler’s symphony and Beckett’s novel as framework in his “Sinfonia,” took “What next?” to the next step. Berio took the second movement of Mahler’s Second Symphony, known as the “Resurrection,” and added musical commentaries in the form of snippets of …

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Column: ‘Retire and go back under a rock’: Biden loyalists push back on my call for Joe to get tested

Maestro: The dualities of Leonard Bernstein

Why the search for the next Gustavo Dudamel is full of hope — and hazards

Trump busts the myth behind the MAGA rich

Concertgebouw Orchestra kicks off new season with free concert in Amsterdam

L.A. Phil’s 2024-25 lineup (Dudamel’s penultimate season) includes Mahler, a Seoul Festival and more John Williams

Body language expert reveals subtle clues about how Australia's most powerful leaders are feeling in a group photo - and singles out one who looked like an 'awkward school girl'

Body language expert reveals how Anthony Albanese was 'manic' with excitement to meet Xi Jinping - but the Chinese president was feeling very different

Commentary: At 86, Zubin Mehta reflects on his career, Mahler and the ‘Mehta Sound’

Book Review: ‘In Search of Lost Time: Mahler after Proust’ and James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ by Nicolas Mahler

Todd Field on 'Tár,' Cate Blanchett and 'Twister' sequel

Review: The Israel Philharmonic was led by the same conductor for 40-plus years. His successor shines in L.A. debut

Berlin conductor Petrenko worried `no one needs us anymore’

Body language expert reveals six signs your dating a narcissist

Older people left out as UN speeches repeatedly invoke young

Review: Brad Mehldau’s new challenging, experimental album

The art of songwriting

Gustavo Dudamel and Cynthia Erivo lead a great L.A. Phil gala

Symphony elaborates on Mahler's China variations

Symphony elaborates on Mahler's China variations

Symphony elaborates on Mahler's China variations

This Robot Could Help Fulfill Your Online Shopping Sprees

Born from the tragedies of 1968, Berio’s miraculous ‘Sinfonia’ still resonates