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The article named "Ivan Hewett's Classic 50 No 23: Mozart: Grazioso from Piano Trio in E major" was published on 23, May in 2013 by Ivan Hewett.

The article

The latest in Ivan Hewett's 50-part series on short works by the world's greatest composers. To play the tracks embedded in this article you will need to register with Spotify at spotify.com

The journalist continues his research work in the sphere of classical music.

He stresses that there’s an inherent ambiguity in the word “classical.” It can mean classical music in general, and it can mean music of the classical era, which is the surprisingly short period between about 1770 and 1820 (pop music now has a longer history than “classical music”, using this definition). The confusion points to the fact that the music of that golden half-century is the centre of classical music as a whole. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven – these are the composers who completed the tonal universe that Bach and Handel and all the other great forebears had created. They added drama to spacious architectural grandeur.

This little piece by Mozart exemplifies that union, but so quietly you could miss the drama under the polished surface. He wrote it at a fantastically busy period of his life. Only four days after finishing it, in June 1788, he completed his 39th Symphony, and within another six weeks he’d completed 40 and 41 as well.

In between, he wrote three works for violin, cello and piano aimed at the amateur market, of which this is one. The publishers weren’t impressed with his aim, saying they were unapproachable and difficult.

But Mozart loved them, especially the E major one that contains this movement. He sent it as a thank you to his friend and fellow Freemason Michael Puchberg, whom he was always touching for a loan.

I agree that classical music is rather important for our modern teens and society on the whole. And the example of Mozart is not the sole. I'm sure that such great surnames as Mozart, Shestokovich, Bah, Verdi, etc should be within hearing.

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The article named "BBC Symphony Orchestra, Barbican" was published on 26, May in 2013 by Ivan Hewett.

The article

The journalist says that The BBC Symphony Orchestra performed a moving concert at the Barbican, London.

The author emphasizes that this concert had something perfect at its core, book-ended with things that were interesting and moving, sometimes even overwhelming, but problematic.

The first of those problematic things was Wolfgang Rihm’s Nahe fern 1, a 10-minute orchestral Adagio which evoked the Romantic fascination with twilight (thus the title, which refers to the way a dim light makes nearby things seem distant). It arose out of sighing figures in the deep bass, broken up with silences. These heaved themselves up into the light, but it was never more than a dim light, in which sad drooping horn figures evoking Brahms or possibly Mahler drifted across the scene.

For Ivan Hewett a natural question arises "Was this a real musical experience, or merely a second-hand one?" It was hard to be sure, with music that shrouded itself so determinedly in dimness. One needs a bright light to distinguish true from fake. By contrast Shostakovich’s 11th Symphony, which ended the concert, was almost painfully bright. It painted the heroic but doomed 1905 Russian Revolution, in a long arch that rose from frozen-dawn stillness to deafening martial clamour.

This journalist maintains that the impact of Shostakovich’s symphonies is always magnified by our knowledge of the political and personal torment behind them. And I can't but agree with this assertion.

This lends them weight, but also shields them from criticism. Reverence in the face of unimaginable suffering gets in the way of spontaneous response. But last night I found myself rebelling at the sheer brute insistence of the music, which all the BBC SO’s fervency and conductor Ingo Metzmacher’s shrewd pacing couldn’t disguise.

 

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The article "Win Eurovision 2013 The Album" concerns EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2013 and main news. It was published on 24,  May in 2013.

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Sweden has become one of the world's biggest exporters of music. This important industry recognises its debt to the ground-breaking achievements of ABBA, who turned their 1974 Eurovision Song Contest win into a springboard for an international career of unparalleled success and longevity.

Almost four decades after that first Swedish victory, Loreen, the winner of last year's contest in Azerbaijan, scored a truly massive pan-European hit with 'Euphoria' (No.1 in 13 countries and 29 gold and platinum sales certifications). Thirty-nine countries are hoping to repeat this success in MalmГ in front of a TV audience in excess of 100 million viewers. "We Are One" is the banner under which the 2013 contest is taking place, but a listen to the 39 songs on the official album release reveals that the element that unites the contestants is their spirit of diversity.

Newly discovered stunning vocal talents take their place beside internationally established stars. The
Eurovision Song Contest sets no restrictions on language or style, which makes this collection of songs unique ' 39 brand new compositions with only one common denominator ' they have all been chosen to represent their country with the mandate of hitting the chord of European taste and carrying off Europe's most coveted musical crown.

As for me, I watched this programme from the very beginning to the very end. I am fond of the winner-song, and the winner-performance on the whole. But at the same time, i think the strongest and most impressive show was of the Russian singer Dina.

I know - I'm a patriot.

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The article named "Laura Marling, Once I Was An Eagle" was published on 23, May in 2013 by Neil McCormick.   The article

According to the journalist Neil McCormick Laura Marling's poetic elegance reaches places others don't even get close to. It's a masterpiece.

Having read the author's opinion about Laura Marling as the singer, i can say with the confidence that she is very talented, hard-working and infused.

The author emphasizes that there is something rare and special about Laura Marling. Watching her development since her precocious debut at 17, I feel witness to the unfolding of an all-time great. She has a poetic elegance and fluid, roots musicality that scales the Olympian heights of great Seventies singer-songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison but Marling has a uniqueness that makes comparison gauche, a coolly cerebral quality that maintains tension between her poised singing and playing and the deep, dark depths of her fierce and sensual songs. Once I Was An Eagle touches places other records don’t even get close to.

The author stresses that she has the pale demeanour and gentle tones of a folky English rose but is fiercer than that implies. There is something predatory about her, a kind of exultance in female strength.

On the album cover, Marling stretches upwards, apparently naked, echoing Where Can I Go?, on which she sings “like a woman with her clothes on / You take them off and she’s a bird”. But it is not necessarily a bird of peace. On the title track, she casts herself as eagle, and her hapless lover as dove. She plays with concepts of Ovidian transformation but in her interior world, Marling is both beast and master hunter.

 

 

As for me, i like reading the articles that reveal a personal opinion of the journalists about the singer’s career. And if I know the work of the journalist, I listen to his opinion and his point of view as a professional.

 



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The article "The Great Gatsby: behind the scenes" was published on the 29th of April in 2013 by Marion Hume.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/10014845/The-Great-Gatsby-behind-the-scenes.html

This article id devoted to the new production "The Great Gatsby". Tiffany jewellery, a Jay-Z soundtrack and Jazz Age decadence in 3D... Baz Luhrmann turns up the voltage on The Great Gatsby.

The author notes that "The Great Gatsby" is a slender book. Yet you can be certain of a sweeping epic of a film in May. In F Scott Fitzgerald’s introspective novel, every utterance is weighed. This is not how things work in the world of Baz Luhrmann. You don’t even get through the question, 'When did you first read the…’ before the 50-year-old director who brought us Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet and Australia is in full flow.

As for the film itself, "The Great Gatsby" follows a young Midwesterner, Nick Carraway (played by Tobey Maguire), as he arrives in Manhattan in the wild spring of 1922, at a time when the bond market is rocketing, boot­leggers are thriving and morals are loosening.
He rents a house in Long Island, next to the mansion of a mysterious new-money millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), and across the water from the old-moneyed – and unfaithful – Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton), married to Carraway’s cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan). He quickly gets caught up in a world of arrogant privilege and bears witness to its tragic consequences.

Marion Hume mentions all the characters of the film, their play; the film's scence and the author's message.

The author concludes: The Great Gatsby is out on May 16. Tiffany’s Ziegfeld Collection celebrates the company’s collaboration with Warner Bros and Bazmark Films on The Great Gatsby.

With the help of this article, i'd like to watch "The Great Gatsby". The author of the article has been able to interest me.


 

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The article "100 years of Bollywood: A beginner's guide" was published on the 3d May in 2013 by Alice Vincent (Entertainment writer).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/bollywood/10033530/100-years-of-Bollywood-A-beginners-guide.html

The author writes about the Bollywood film, its peculiarities and roots.

 Alice Vincent reminds that hundred years ago today, the first silent feature film was released in India: Raja Harischandra, created by Dadasahed Phalke. The film told the legend of King Harischandra, and Phalke was rightly dubbed the Father of Indian Cinema: his was the first in an ever-growing line of Bollywood films.

She mentions that a century later, and Bollywood is still a thriving industry – in 2012, nine films made more than 1 billion rupees (£12 million) each at the box office. But while its influence creeps into Western film, there are still a lot of Bollywood rookies in the UK. With the centenary, there’s no better time to get involved. Here’s a few expert tips on where to start.

The basics
The author asserts that Bollywood is also known as Hindi cinema (rather than the portmanteau of Hollywood and Bombay), and its just one aspect of the much larger Indian Cinema industry. The language spoken is Hindi, although some newer films are in ‘Hinglish’, a mixture between Hindi and English. Classic Bollywood films can be lengthy – up to four hours – feature around 10 song-and-dance scenes and have an interval for audiences to take a break. However, modern Bollywood films have a smaller musical element – although the first to be completely without songs was Kanoon, a 1961 court drama.

The taboos
Speaking about the taboos, the author emphasizes that traditionally, the Indian censor board cut portrayals of sex, nudity, social unrest and violence from Bollywood films. The first film seriously to portray a gay relationship was Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyon, released in 2010, and on screen kisses still land a film with an adult rating. Director Baldev Raj Chopra was one of the first to break Bollywood’s taboos of divorce and prostitution, as well as portraying rape for the first time in 1980 film Insaaf-ka-Tarazu.

Besides, this article allows us to read more about classical, parallel and modern Bollywood films.

Frankly speaking, i've never heard about such a phenomenon as a Bollywood film. That's why this particular article is very useful for me and for my mental outlook. This article urges me on watching this kind of films.



 

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The article  Warner Brothers: ninety years of grit and greatness was published on April, 4 in 2013 by David Gritten.

Warner Bros today celebrates nine decades of individuality, big characters, and challenging realism on the big screen .
The author remembered that with the premiere of The Jazz Singer in New York City in 1927, the world of film changed. Starring Al Jolson, it launched the era of the “talkies”, and was the prototype of movies as we know them today: a synthesis of sound and vision.
The Jazz Singer was a film from Warner Bros, which had then been in existence for just four years – and that premiere was screened at the flagship Warner Bros cinema in Manhattan. For that event alone Warners, which today celebrates its 90th anniversary, would deserve a place in the pantheon of great Hollywood studios.

Yet over the years there have been so many more reasons to celebrate Warners. It’s hard to believe now, when every Hollywood studio offers diversified “product” in an attempt to be all things to all people, but there was a time when they actively differentiated themselves from their rivals, specialising in genres or styles. Disney meant animation, of course, while MGM was synonymous with musicals.

Warner Bros made its mark with big-screen realism. From the early Thirties, under the auspices of its brilliant young production chief, Darryl F Zanuck, and his successor, Hal Wallis, it generated a cycle of gangster films and crime dramas: in 1931 alone there was Little Caesar, starring Edward G Robinson; The Public Enemy, starring James Cagney; and Smart Money, which starred them both.
These films chimed resoundingly with the spirit of the times. They held up a mirror to Depression-era America, and appealed directly to ordinry people suffering financial troubles. These Warner Bros films developed a house style: urban settings, snappy dialogue and a brisk pace, with scripts and performances that never strayed into sentimentality.
As for the present situation, the author stated that even today, a distinctive film-maker like Christopher Nolan calls Warners home, and it’s hard to imagine him equally comfortable elsewhere. Of course, Warners’ output is as varied in quality as any other studio – but over 90 years it has created a legacy unlike any other in Hollywood.

I'd like to thank this wonderful website because it's full of such interesting and useful articles as this one. It was very interesting for me read and penetrated into it because i'm fond of cinema and news in this sphere are important for me.