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UNCOVERED: Antonio vivaldi | History Defined

Primavera review – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is school-of-Salieri backdrop for period musical biopic

The composer has an affair with a teenage violinist in this lifeless adaptation of a novel by Tiziano Scarpa

The Guardian - UK

I created a Vivaldi-inspired sound artwork for the Venice Biennale. The star of the show is an endangered bush-cricket

It was late January when I got the call. I’m asked to bring my sound art to a collaborative ecology and design project, Song of the Cricket, for the Venice Biennale of Architecture. When such as invitation arrives, you have no choice but to jump in.

The Conversation

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons album review – Pioro’s ‘ode to the imagination’ of Vivaldi has interest but also indulgence

The violinist’s rethinking of Vivaldi’s best known work includes four new poems by (and read by) Michael Morpurgo but, placed together at the start of the disc, the music and poetry feels disconnected

The Guardian - UK

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Look! ESA and JAXA Captured the Dramatic Craters On Mercury’s Surface In Unprecedented Detail

A new video from the European and Japanese mission BepiColombo gives a sneak peak at what Mercury might soon reveal about itself.

Inverse

BepiColombo probe captures stunning Mercury images in closest flyby yet

BepiColombo made a close flyby of Mercury on Sept. 4, getting just 103 miles (165 kilometers) above the planet.

Space

The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable review – compelling tale of Vivaldi’s musical protege

A well-crafted historical fiction inspired by the composer’s tenure as music teacher in a Venetian orphanage

The Guardian - UK

New fish found off Madagascar: remarkable long-nosed skate discovered in the deep ocean

The Madagascar Ridge, in the southwestern Indian Ocean, is a remote, elevated area of seabed south of Madagascar. In 2016, my colleagues and I discovered a new cartilaginous fish species in its deep waters; a catshark that we named Bach’s catshark (Bythaelurus bachi) after German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. (In…

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Orphan's masterpiece comes to life in rural Australia

An orphan named Agatha was left at a Venice orphanage in 1712, when Vivaldi was teaching children. Her unearthed music is finding a home in regional Victoria.

AAP

Music painted on the wall of a Venetian orphanage will be heard again nearly 250 years later

Imagine Lady Gaga or Elton John teaching at an orphanage or homeless shelter, offering daily music lessons.

The Conversation

TV tonight: Lesley Manville’s overlooked war drama World on Fire returns

The cast also boasts the Little Mermaid star Jonah Hauer-King. Plus, how women won the right to get in the fighting ring. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Guru's Weekly Buzz for Mar 17-23

Guru By Bangkok Post's pick of the most exciting products, activities, art exhibitions, shows, food and hotel deals.

Bangkok Post

Earth Day Anthems: Songs to celebrate our amazing, damaged planet

Tunes to remind us that our world is still worth saving

The Independent UK

CSO, Muti find music of the baroque an interesting challenge

The conductor and orchestra brought the same skill, care and commitment to this music as they do to everything else they take on, but it seems fair to say that this repertoire is not their forte.

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