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The Magic Lantern
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Photograph of Vladimir Ashkenazy.
“Piano Concerto № 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 - Movement I: Moderato” - Sergey Rachmaninov.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haFPBgsgBMw&fmt=18
Beautiful rendition of Rachmaninov’s famous second piano concerto by Ashkenazy.
Marie Laforêt
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Ballerinas standing between barre and round windows against which they are silhouetted during rehearsal for Swan Lake at Grand Opera de Paris
by Alfred Eisenstaedt
from LIFE
[few more here and at liquidnight;]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6htpyzs161qztk1wo1_500.jpg)
Ballerinas standing between barre and round windows against which they are silhouetted during rehearsal for Swan Lake at Grand Opera de Paris
from LIFE
[few more here and at liquidnight;]
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The “living sculpture” of the Beast’s castle in Beauty and the Beast (1946, dir. Jean Cocteau)
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“Why, she was pressed, does she think she provoked such strong feelings of empathy from her audiences? After all, she was not a sex symbol (‘I sure wasn’t’), so what was it - her beauty, her vulnerability, her sense of humor, her sensitivity? - that gave her that special aura?
‘It’s impossible for me to know,’ [Audrey Hepburn] said with hesitation, ‘but if you asked me what I would like it to be, though it may sound presumptuous to say so, it’s an experience I’ve had with other performers who somehow make you open up to them. For me, it always has to do with some kind of affection, love, a warmth.’
‘I myself was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it,’ she went on. ‘That’s what I’d like to think maybe has been the appeal. People have recognized something in me they have themselves — the need to receive affection and the need to give it. Does that sound soppy?’”
-excerpted from New York Times interview, April 1991](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5xt8sa0lH1qzdvhio1_r1_500.jpg)
“Why, she was pressed, does she think she provoked such strong feelings of empathy from her audiences? After all, she was not a sex symbol (‘I sure wasn’t’), so what was it - her beauty, her vulnerability, her sense of humor, her sensitivity? - that gave her that special aura?
‘It’s impossible for me to know,’ [Audrey Hepburn] said with hesitation, ‘but if you asked me what I would like it to be, though it may sound presumptuous to say so, it’s an experience I’ve had with other performers who somehow make you open up to them. For me, it always has to do with some kind of affection, love, a warmth.’
‘I myself was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it,’ she went on. ‘That’s what I’d like to think maybe has been the appeal. People have recognized something in me they have themselves — the need to receive affection and the need to give it. Does that sound soppy?’”
-excerpted from New York Times interview, April 1991
Don Hunstein Miles Davis, New York City 1958
This shot was taken by Hunstein in New York City, at the 30th Street Studio where Miles and Gil Evans were in the process of recording their brilliant interpretation of Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess.” Davis later said that his and Evans’ reworking of the Gershwin opera into cool jazz was one of his favorite recordings. The look of transcendent joy on Miles’ face during this break in the recording session kind of tells you that he already felt that way, even as the recording was being made.
