In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we would play to make our friends fall in love with classical music, piano, opera, cello, Mozart, 21st-century composers, violin, Baroque music, sopranos, Beethoven, flute, string quartets, tenors, Brahms, choral music, percussion, symphonies, Stravinsky, trumpet, Maria Callas, Bach, the organ, […]
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What to watch if you love romantic films and TV
Television Starstruck BBC iPlayer Rose Matafeo’s 2020s take on Notting Hill returned for a second series this week. It follows Kiwi cinema worker Jessie (Matafeo), who has a one-night stand with Tom (Nikesh Patel), only to discover he is a movie star. Funny and heartwarming, this modern fairy tale is […]
Adrien Brody Returns to His First Love: Painting
The aqua slapped onto the canvas first. Then white, cobalt and cotton candy pink. Yellow blurted on with a rude noise, followed by red and black. This was on a frigid morning in a borrowed art studio in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn. In a crumbly brick building along […]