The study—conducted by a group of scientists from the University of Barcelona, the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Germany, the University of Padova in Italy, and the ...

as in the film noir classic “The Postman Always Rings Twice” or “Humoresque,” a romantic melodrama about a violin prodigy (both 1946). Seeking greater creative control, at the end of his ...

Dazai was born into the fourth wealthiest family in Aomori, Dazai, who never felt true happiness while being raised on material wealth, gradually began to think that true happiness lies in the ...

The somewhat delayed commemoration of Sergei Rachmaninov’s 150th anniversary (2023) concluded with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Hans Graf offering a rare performance of his Piano Concerto no ...

David Butt, flautist known to Prommers for his frenetic Sailor’s Hornpipe He played under conductors including Sir Adrian Boult and Pierre Boulez and appeared in 38 Last Nights of the Proms at ...

David Butt, who has died aged 89, was Principal Flute in the BBC Symphony Orchestra for 38 years, from 1960 to 1998, during which he became familiar to promenaders at the Last Night of the Proms ...

Motifs include birds like the fan-tailed pigeon (lokaparo) and hawk-eagle (hensor ai), musical instruments like drum (dhol) and hornpipe pair (juripepa), and animals.

In the final movement “Das himmlische Leben” (“Life in Heaven”), which is a humoresque based on a collection of German folk poetry, Booth returned to the stage. Zander explained in his pre ...

In the early days of Joan Crawford’s career, the budding actor found herself playing a body double for Hollywood icon Norma Shearer in the film Lady of the Night. Crawford’s film debut was thus one ...

Once upon a time, Joan Crawford was Hollywood royalty. The starlet made a name for herself as a Jazz Age flapper, but the defining moments of her career saw her exploring psychologically complex ...

Known for films like What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Women, and Humoresque, Crawford skyrocketed to stardom in the 1940s. But as the story goes for many of Hollywood’s most legendary ...

The four solo tracks are moving renditions of Someone To Watch Over Me, Elegy, Humoresque and Begin The Beguine. Whatever the circumstances and the company he kept, Art Tatum was in 1953 (and still is ...