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Luigi Alva, One Of The 20th Century’s Great Light Tenors, Is Dead At 98

The Peruvian light lyric tenor Luigi Alva, who was especially acclaimed for his stylish interpretations of Mozart and Rossini and sang on some of the great opera recordings of the mid-twentieth century, has died aged 98. Born in Paita in 1927, Alva studied at Peru’s Navy Academy before training as a singer, initially in Lima […]

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This Year’s Cannes Film Festival May Be The Most Politically Charged Since 1968

Has Cannes gone all political on us? The French film festival, which used to pride itself on, sometimes to a fault, being the apolitical “cinema for cinema’s sake” festival, appears to be storming the barricades. The 78th Festival featured one of the most political opening ceremonies in living memory. In his speech accepting an honorary

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Neuroscientists Find Music Can Powerfully Reshape Memory

A neuroimaging study examining episodic memory found that individuals exposed to music during memory recollection were more likely to incorporate emotions associated with the music into their memories. One day later, these memories exhibited a stronger emotional tone than the original recollections. The study was published in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. Music is a

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Harvard Law School Bought A Copy Of The Magna Carta For $27. Turns Out It’s Real

CNN  —  A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an extremely rare original from 1300, according to new research. British historians were able to verify the document’s true authenticity after an academic stumbled across the item while looking through Harvard Law School’s

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Willem Dafoe On His Upcoming First Season Leading The Venice Theater Biennale

Sitting in his house in Rome, an overstuffed bookcase and a distressed wooden door behind him, Willem Dafoe scrunches his hair as though kneading the thoughts in his head. The 69-year-old, Wisconsin-born actor could pass today for any genial, bristle-moustached handyman in checked shirt and horn-rimmed specs. (Perhaps he even built the bookcase and distressed

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Remaining Kennedy Center Employees Start Unionization Process

“The union, which they’re calling the ‘Kennedy Center United Arts Workers,’ would be in partnership with … the UAW. It would consist of nonsupervisory employees from artistic programming, education, marketing and development departments, along with administrators of the Washington National Opera and the National Symphony Orchestra.” – The Washington Post (MSN) Source link

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The Eurovision Song Contest’s Real Heroes: The Crew That Does Complete Set Changes In 35 Seconds

Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Icelandic boyband VÆB were the first act to perform on the Eurovision stage this year Thirty-five seconds. That’s all the time you get to change the set at Eurovision. Thirty-five seconds to get one set of performers off the stage and put the next ones in the right place.

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Mubi, Born As A Streaming Platform, Wants To Conquer Indie Cinema

Mubi, the upstart indie film company that made “The Substance” into an Oscar sensation, traces its origins to Tokyo on New Year’s Eve 2006, when Efe Cakarel, then a vacationing Turkish-born film fanatic, couldn’t find a copy of Wong Kar Wai’s “In the Mood for Love” online. Frustrated, he imagined a website from which indie

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