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composer, singer, photographer, pedagogue
- baritone
- estrada, opera, Patrioticheskaya Pesnya, traditional folk song, religious music
- Russia
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Royal Opera House
2014-09-03 15:24:55
Big and Beautiful: The complex questions raised by cosmetic surgery
Eva-Maria Westbroek as Anna Nicole in Anna Nicole © ROH / Bill Cooper 2011 It's hardly surprising that our media send contradictory messages about female body size: they reflect a general confusion in society. What is surprising, perhaps, is that scientific research into the matter, which we might expect to be calmer and more clear-headed, can cloud the issue with equal gusto. Curvaceousness is controlled by female sex hormones, and has been shown as an important factor in determining female attractiveness across Western society. Interestingly, women with large breasts and narrow waists have a distinct physiological profile, which includes a significantly increased concentration of hormones determining the probability of conception. The hourglass shape therefore serves as cue of fecundity and health to prospective partners. But, if large breasts offer evolutionary benefits, what can science tell those not blessed with a prominent upper-frontal superstructure about the possibility of scaling higher […]
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Chamber Music Today
2012-11-10 19:43:00
Xenakis Matters
T he Demiurge (1) creates from an intuition of Good; (2) takes disorder and friction and waste and makes it orderly and efficient, so far as is possible to do; (3) places Reason within the soul, and the cosmic soul within the cosmic body; (4) models the cosmos on the form of a generalized sentient lifeform, i.e., an animal with moral standing; (5) creates the cosmic body on principles of geometric proportionality; (6) creates the world soul out of population-level sameness and difference; (7) blends these into a durable alloy; and (8) divides the alloy into useful, value-generating harmonic intervals.” Plato’s ‘Timaeus’, quoted by Eric Lewis in Kanach, p. 81.U nlike Schoenberg, who controls and organizes his music at the level of the individual note, Xenakis works at the level of the whole population [of all notes, taken together, as a sound-mass].” […]
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