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- Michael Jackson records pop album of Robert Burns poems - Daily Telegraph
Gest, the former husband of Liza Minnelli, said they recorded the album at Jackson's studio in California with top recording artists, giving a 21st century twist to the Bard's lyrics. Gest, a concert promoter and television personality, said that ...
- Northshore Chamber Society concert - Budgeteer News
Transplanted and Lyrical A song recital by Janet MacDonald, mezzo-soprano, and her son Michael MacDonald, baritone, with Samuel Black, pianist. Music by Reynaldo Hahn and Gerald Finzi, both translplanted conmposers who are exceptionally lyrical in ...
- Failing Darwish's legacy - Electronic Intifada
Electronic IntifadaFailing Darwish's legacyElectronic Intifada, IL - 3 hours agoIn a 2002 interview, Darwish stated: "I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is ...
- Hail to smartypants champ - The Sun Daily
Hail to smartypants champThe Sun Daily, Malaysia - 12 hours agoThe Times of London gave British poet Fanny Walker a whole page last week in which she made an impassioned plea that performance poetry be included in the ...
- Book Review: Magisterium by Joel Deane (Blogcritics.org)
This is poetry written at the limits of what our language can do; without sacrificing accessibility. It’s hard to pinpoint the power in Joel Deane’s Magisterium. Perhaps it’s the duality between the intuitive, interiority and the strong authoritative, apocalyptic voices that guide these poems. They are at once powerful and booming, yet muted at the same time. The tension created by this ...
- Beethoven's Ninth Reflects Will to Live, Says Kurt Masur - Deutsche Welle
Beethoven's Ninth Reflects Will to Live, Says Kurt MasurDeutsche Welle, Germany - 13 hours agoAnd that is what I want to show through this example: Someone who is sitting there that evening understands perfectly that the ease, the poetry, ...
- Extra curricular - guardian.co.uk
Extra curricularguardian.co.uk, UK - 16 minutes agoDH Lawrence used to come here on holiday and Tennyson and his brothers shouted poetry at the sea, so perhaps that's why in my spare time I also do voluntary ...
- Master of Many Styles, and Many Mentors - New York Times
New York TimesMaster of Many Styles, and Many MentorsNew York Times, United States - 10 minutes agoThere was even art criticism, some of it recorded in on-the-spot assessments (including poetry) on pieces of paper, called colophons, attached to the very ...
- Hard man in a hard country (Khaleej Times)
Tomorrow, there will be no presidential hopefuls, no hordes of advisers and staff, no senior TV anchors, none of the razzmatazz of an American election campaign. The routine lack of routine that is life in Kabul will have been restored.
- Event: 85th birthday celebrations of Suchitra Mitra When: Today at ... - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphEvent: 85th birthday celebrations of Suchitra Mitra When: Today at ...Calcutta Telegraph, India - 2 hours agoIt evokes this fluid journey through the sensuous and romantic poetry of Indian musical genres and the lyrical beauty and imagery of Kathak. ...
- Russell lectures about Armenian-Slavic folklore connections Thursday - Abington Mariner
Prof. James R. Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University, will give the first lecture of NAASR’s fall 2008 series on Thursday, Sept. 11, at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) Center, 395 ...
- Kiss the librarian - Baywindows.com
Lillian Faderman, lesbian scholar and author of Gay L.A. and Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America , recalls her first exposure to the work of Jeannette Howard Foster. It was 1962, and she was a grad ...
- Spencer's famous library cat dies - Sioux City Journal
SPENCER, Iowa -- One of the world's most famous felines, Dewey Readmore Books, died Wednesday in the arms of librarian Vicki Myron who had acted as his "mother" for most of the last 19 years. Dewey was adopted as the library cat at the Spencer Public ...
- Gaia Online Completes $11 Million Series C Funding (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN JOSE, Calif.----Gaia Online, the leading online hangout for teens, today announced an $11 million Series C round of venture funding from Institutional Venture Partners . At a time when eMarketer is predicting the number of teen internet users visiting virtual worlds will jump from the reported 8.2 million users in 2007 to 20 million in 2011, Gaia Online is dedicated to bringing this growing ...
- Bridging the Gap (Modesto Bee)
TURLOCK -- Prisma Lisbeth Soria's high school friends didn't like that she wanted to take honors classes. They ignored her on campus for months and accused her of leaving them behind. So, the 17-year-old threw away her poetry collection and hunkered down in her basic classes to be accepted again.
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