Alicia de Larrocha
Isaac Albéniz: Iberia; Navarra; Suite Española; etc.
(Emi Classics)
Isaac Albéniz led one of the most exciting and unusual lives of any composer. Born May 29, 1860 in Camprodón, Spain, he was precocious in the extreme, making his public debut as a pianist when just four years old. (His sister Clementine was also a piano prodigy.) Already composing by age seven, when he became a pupil of Antoine-Francois Marmontel (who also taught Bizet, Debussy, and d'Indy) in Paris, the handsome and virtuosic Albéniz was a popular attraction even at that age and was booked for concert tours by his parents, for which he was dressed in a French musketeer's uniform complete with sword.
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Isaac Albéniz: Iberia; Navarra; Suite Española; etc.
(Emi Classics)
Isaac Albéniz led one of the most exciting and unusual lives of any composer. Born May 29, 1860 in Camprodón, Spain, he was precocious in the extreme, making his public debut as a pianist when just four years old. (His sister Clementine was also a piano prodigy.) Already composing by age seven, when he became a pupil of Antoine-Francois Marmontel (who also taught Bizet, Debussy, and d'Indy) in Paris, the handsome and virtuosic Albéniz was a popular attraction even at that age and was booked for concert tours by his parents, for which he was dressed in a French musketeer's uniform complete with sword.
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- 5/29/2010
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Christian McKay has been teased about his uncanny resemblance to Orson Welles, a comparison he did not like. He wanted to be compared to Richard Burton. Still, when he found himself relegated to playing eunuchs in Shakespearean productions—"and that's several rungs lower than spear carriers," he says—followed by 18 months of unemployment, he reappraised the idea of Welles as a kind of alter ego. McKay performed the one-man show "Rosebud: The Lives of Orson Welles," by his pal Mark Jenkins, at the Edinburgh Festival and in London, Toronto, and New York. In Gotham, the actor was seen by Richard Linklater, who cast him as Welles in his film "Me and Orson Welles." McKay admits it's a meteoric career leap. Nevertheless, he acknowledges there's something to be said for being an unknown. "Audiences aren't going to say, 'There's so-and-so trying to be so-and-so,' " says the 36-year-old Lancashire, England,...
- 11/27/2009
- backstage.com
Happy ‘May Day’ Boxwishers! For those of us in the UK, the first Monday of May brings with it the excitement of a day off work/ school. For those of you not enjoying this spring time treat, we hope that your Monday isn’t too depressing. And why should it be when we’ve got a shiny new crop of movie morsels heading your way? It’s quite quiet on the DVD front, but there are a few modern classics getting their Blu-Ray debut so sit back and take in these new home entertainment treasures…
If you see… A high school student go on a cross-country road trip to meet a girl he met online in raucous lads comedy Sex Drive.
Why Not Read Andy Behren’s book of the same name upon which the movie is based. Rock out to the sound of American band Fall Out Boy who...
If you see… A high school student go on a cross-country road trip to meet a girl he met online in raucous lads comedy Sex Drive.
Why Not Read Andy Behren’s book of the same name upon which the movie is based. Rock out to the sound of American band Fall Out Boy who...
- 5/4/2009
- Boxwish.com
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