What’s the difference between it and even a grand piano? A lot: “It was a gigantic experiment. If you think of a typical concert piano, of course they sound amazing. But with this piano, there is an extra level of depth and resonance again because the piano wires are more than 20 feet long,”
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Agnes Varda Is 89, Still Making Movies, And Collaborating With (Relative) Youngsters
She was supposed to be co-directing Faces Places with artist JR, a 34-year-old. Here’s his take: “”At the beginning it was a little bit harder for me because she would just direct everything and I couldn’t place one word, and at some point I had to be like, ‘OK, if we’re really co-directing, I have to fight.'”
Harvey Weinstein Has Been Fired From The Weinstein Company
A third of the board of The Weinstein Company resigned before he was fired, and his lawyer stepped down as well.
Re-examining Dr. Seuss’ Legacy, Including Unsavory Racism
Children’s literature scholar Philip Nel has published many books about Theodore Seuss Geisel, including August’s Was the Cat in the Hat Black? “He did great anti-racist work … and he did work that was racist,” Nel says. “It was the same person, the same body of work, done at the same time.”
Late Night Isn’t Exactly The Most Diverse Landscape, But Here Comes Robin Thede
The history of African American women on late night is limited but prestigious – previous hosts have been Whoopi Goldberg, Mo’Nique, and Wanda Sykes. So Thede’s new The Rundown is “both a risky proposition and a potential breakthrough for BET, which has a sporadic history of late-night talk-show programming, and for Ms. Thede, who was most recently the head writer and an occasional performer on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore.”
The Otherworldly Falsetto Of Moses Sumney Comes From His Deep Childhood Shyness
The musician says he spent a lot of time singing under his breath at school. “At 10, his pastor parents moved from California, where he was born, to Accra in Ghana, where his fellow students would mock his American accent. It kickstarted what he calls ‘an almost obnoxious obsession with loneliness, singledom, isolation,’ which has permeated his music ever since.”
If You’re Not Sick To Death Of Politics, Hey, The Observer Calls These The Best Political Novels And Plays
You want to read about fighting against despotic leaders who have almost total spy control over their populations, right? Right? Or maybe you just want to read Richard III again. You’ll find all of that here.
Queens Museum Director Speaks Out Because ‘Neutrality Is Fiction’
Lauren Raicovich runs the museum in, the most diverse borough of New York, where 165 different languages are spoken. She “seems to be charting her own community-focused path, with an emphasis on making the museum a safe haven for the borough’s large immigrant population. ‘I take my leadership very seriously — not just in a physical and managerial sense,’ Ms. Raicovich said in a recent interview at her museum office. ‘Care and equity has to be part of what I bring to my position.'”