After all, it was as a pianist that she trained and first made her mark on Irish musical life in the 1980s. When she first encountered Wallace’s music, she says, she was won over by his “fantastic ability to write lyrical piano music. I didn’t know anything a...
This knowing is so minor it no longer filters your aesthetic references. Yet it becomes the only question we keep answering:do you enjoy your life? Will you denounce their automatic responses? Deselect the choice of self-harm. Sometimes—concealed deep within admiration—survival extends ...
This made Hayes the first African-American to win an Oscar in a non-acting category. Moreover, Hayes's talents were not confined to the realm of music. He also had a successful acting career. Perhaps his most memorable role was as the voice of Chef, a loveable school cafeteria worker, ...
The more he turned the matter over, the more he was non-plussed, and made uneasy and discomforted. In his disgustful recoil from an overture which tho' he but ill comprehended he instinctively knew must involve evil of some sort, Billy Budd was like a young horse fresh from the ...