The bell just rang, school is out for summer. Maybe it’s out forever—leaving school behind as our heroes and antiheroes spend long, hot days laying about in the city or countryside, anticipating college dreams or fearing a return to the classroom. Or, more likely, not thinking of studies at all, just anticipating the next summer day and how to score more thrills.As the season winds down, here is a mix that is an ode to the teenage summer—so wonderfully captured in many films—a choice selection that evokes endless possibilities: sweat, love, passion, booze, drugs, and questions of the great unknown just around the corner. The characters of these summertime stories are either breaking hearts, heartbroken, running from hell or somewhere lost in between.Some favorite moments include the confusion, chaos and otherworldly essence of Gheorghe Zamfir’s flute from the unforgettable score for Peter Weir...
- 9/19/2022
- MUBI
In the wake of the terrible attacks in Paris, I found myself listening to a lot of French music and thinking about the Leonard Bernstein quote going around on Facebook: "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." This list came to seem like my natural response. A very small response, I know. This list is chronological and leaves off people I should probably include. The forty [note: now forty-one] composers listed below are merely a start.
Léonin Aka Leoninus (c.1135-c.1201)
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris in the 1100s was a major musical center, and Léonin (the first named composer from whom we have notated polyphonic music) was a crucial figure for defining the liturgical use of organum, the first polyphony. Earlier organum was fairly simple, involving parallel intervals and later contrary motion, but the mid-12th century brought...
Léonin Aka Leoninus (c.1135-c.1201)
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris in the 1100s was a major musical center, and Léonin (the first named composer from whom we have notated polyphonic music) was a crucial figure for defining the liturgical use of organum, the first polyphony. Earlier organum was fairly simple, involving parallel intervals and later contrary motion, but the mid-12th century brought...
- 11/15/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Galerie St. Etienne, hidden in the back of a 57th Street office building, is full of elderly women whispering reverently before drawings by Expressionist painter Egon Schiele, many of them sexually explicit. It’s a bit incongruous, and then Walton Goggins bursts through the door, his slightly sunburned face the only break in head-to-toe black. Immediately there is that smile, those large and blinding white teeth, promising both seduction and menace. And then the luscious drawl: “Hello, darlin’!” I’d wondered why the actor—who stars as charming criminal Boyd Crowder on the FX drama Justified—had chosen to meet here, but all is quickly revealed. “I played Schiele when I was 24, in a theater piece in Los Angeles,” he says. “It was about his incarceration in 1912 for pornography and the seduction of a minor. Wow!” Goggins walks toward a drawing. “That’s Wally, his mistress. She was the love of his life.
- 1/7/2013
- by Mary Kaye Schilling
- Vulture
Alan Pardew has no doubt woke up this morning knowing that the one task he must achieve today is the signing of a new striker before the 11pm transfer window deadline, something he hasn’t been able to do since the beginning of the summer. Previous targets Kevin Gamiero and Gervinho who he tried to buy early on moved elsewhere, 3rd choice Mevlut Erdinc couldn’t be convinced to leave Paris Saint-Germain and a deal for latest target Modibo Maiga, the one player who does want to move to Tyneside, has stumbled over a difficulty to agree a deal with his French club Sochaux.
The Sochaux Chairman yesterday stated that he would only let Maiga go if a deal could be agreed for a replacement but having lost out on the £2 million signing of Max Gradel from Leeds who went to their rivals St. Etienne instead, a deal for Maiga...
The Sochaux Chairman yesterday stated that he would only let Maiga go if a deal could be agreed for a replacement but having lost out on the £2 million signing of Max Gradel from Leeds who went to their rivals St. Etienne instead, a deal for Maiga...
- 8/31/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Franz Ferdiand are preparing to return to the stage this December, reports suggest. The group, whose last album Tonight: Franz Ferdinand was released in 2009, are rumoured to be playing at an event hosted by All Tomorrow's Parties, called Bowlie 2 Weekender. The gig is currently being headlined by Scottish group Belle and Sebastian, with St. Etienne and The Go! Team also featuring in the line-up. Music Rooms quotes a source close to the group as saying: "The Bowlie Weekender was what started off (more)...
- 11/24/2010
- by By Robert Copsey
- Digital Spy
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