Dinuk Wijeratne is a prolific composer, a brilliant pianist, and a musical visionary with an aesthetic informed by the Buddhist principle of balance. With a sensibility honed by one of the best musical educations?both academic and autodidactic?imaginable, and, still in the midst of a continent-spanning performing career, Wijeratne welcomes the quiet of his newfound home… Read more »
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A Sweet Newness in the Exchange of Musical Traditions Wajdi Cherif, Fuzzy Colours, 2009, Jasmine, 2006 Wech Records ?I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we… Read more »
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Christos Stassinopoulos is a Greek tenor opera singer and actor with a distinguished career in theatre, television, radio, and film. The Walt Disney Company selected him as the voice of Aladdin in the Greek dubbed version of the animated movie and its sequels and as the dubbed voices for Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Alice in… Read more »
A Sweet Newness in the Exchange of Musical Traditions Wajdi Cherif, Fuzzy Colours 2009, Wech Records Wajdi Cherif, Jasmine 2006, Wech Records ?Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don’t agree with what they’re playing. It teaches you the… Read more »
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Book: Muriel Barbery, Gourmet Rhapsody Translated by Alison Anderson from Une Gourmandise, 2009 Publisher: Europa Editions The Sweet, Slow Unveiling of Our Magical, Delectable Planet ?The only word that mattered to me at the time was terroir?but today I know that a terroir exists only by virtue of one’s childhood mythology, and that if we… Read more »
Christos Stassinopoulos is a Greek tenor opera singer and actor with a distinguished career in theatre, television, radio, and film. The Walt Disney Company selected him as the voice of Aladdin in the Greek dubbed version of the animated movie and its sequels and as the dubbed voices for Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Alice in… Read more »
DVD: The Yes Men Fix the World Theatrical release October 2009, DVD release April 1, 2010 Directors: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno Screenwriters: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno What the World Needs Now is Gildas, Reggies, and SurvivaBalls ?This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and… Read more »