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The Tragedy of Macbeth

Something wicked this way comes. Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star in Joel Coen’s bold adaptation of a timeless tale of murder, madness, and wrathful cunning. The Tragedy of Macbeth streaming on Apple TV+ January 14

Judith Joy Ross

Ross has been called one of the greatest portrait photographers in the history of the medium. As a long-overdue retrospective opens in Europe, a new generation will witness her radical belief in the individual.

KV 581

On Tuesday, December 28, 2021, violist Amihai Grosz and his friends from Berlin shone in a musical spectacle of the highest level during the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht. Due to the lockdown, the original program of this edition of the IKFU (Dec 27 - Dec 30, 2021) unfortunately had to be cancelled. However, the organizers and musicians did not give up and realized a beautiful concert via a live stream.

W.A. Mozart – Clarinet Quintet in A major, KV 581

Performers:
Clara-Jumi Kang,...

You Will Never Work In Television Again

The Smile - You Will Never Work In Television Again. The Smile are Tom Skinner, Jonny Greenwood, Thom Yorke.

Brenda Hillman - Time Problem

The problem
of time.          Of there not being   
enough of it.

My girl came to the study
and said Help me;
I told her I had a time problem   
which meant:
I would die for you but I don’t have ten minutes.   
Numbers hung in the math book   
like motel coathangers. The Lean   
Cuisine was burning
like an ancient city: black at the edges,   
bubbly earth tones in the center.   
The latest thing they’re saying is lack   
of time might be
a “woman’s problem.” She sat there   
with her math book sobbing—
(turned o...

For Auld Lang Syne

Lucy is throwing a New Year’s party, and it wouldn’t be complete without a classic New Year’s song. Join the Peanuts Gang in singing “For Auld Lang Syne"

Naomi Shihab Nye - Burning the Old Year

Letters swallow themselves in seconds.  
Notes friends tied to the doorknob,  
transparent scarlet paper,
sizzle like moth wings,
marry the air.

So much of any year is flammable,  
lists of vegetables, partial poems.  
Orange swirling flame of days,  
so little is a stone.

Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,  
an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.  
I begin again with the smallest numbers.

Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves,  
only the things I didn’t do  
crackle after the ...

Pur ti miro

Claudio Monteverdi - "Pur ti miro" (L'incoronazione di Poppea)

Extrait du concert "Pasticcio" - Festival de Pâques d'Aix-en-Provence, mars 2021

Les Arts Florissants / Direction musicale William Christie / Lea Desandre- mezzo-soprano / Jakub Józef Orliński - Countertenor

Louise Glück - Unpainted Door

Finally, in middle age,
I was tempted to return to childhood.

The house was the same, but
the door was different.
Not red anymore— unpainted wood.
The trees were the same: the oak, the copper beech.
But the people— all the inhabitants of the past—
were gone: lost, dead, moved away.
The children from across the street
old men and women.

The sun was the same, the lawns
parched brown in summer.
But the present was full of strangers.

And in some way it was all exactly right,
exactly as I remembered: the house, th...

christmas will break your heart

LCD Soundsystem perform ‘christmas will break your heart’ as part of their holiday special directed by Eric Wareheim. Watch the full performance now on Prime Video: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NZ5G7TM