Allegro con brio Andante con moto (7:28) Scherzo (17:25) Allegro (22:48) I refuse to be stripped of it. I refuse to have it reduced to anything less epic than it is (or can and should be). Everybody knows Beethoven's fifth symphony, or at least those arresting opening notes. They've infiltrated popular culture almost to have …
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I don't know what to feel. I love my country. Not just because I was born and raised here, or love the natural environment; the playfulness and creativity of our people (sometimes I wonder if we don't actually have a higher than average talent quotient per capita, despite all); and the simple pleasure of …
I've been thinking about blogging a lot the last year or so, perhaps over thinking the when, how, wherefores... I blog for work (Marionettes & MEP Publishers), but hardly ever for, well, me. I suppose the closest thing is the "micro-blogs" of Twitter and Facebook status updates – not quite the longform musings that …
Originally written for and published on OUTLISH.com in 2012 “A breath of fresh air.” That was the phrase that numerous people used over and over, when I spoke to them after K2K’s launch of their 2013 Carnival presentation, “The Human Race” last Thursday. Twin designers Karen and Kathy Norman have introduced something to the Carnival …
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This peace was originally published in Outlish digital magazine as K2K: Fashion, Mas & Philanthropy on 13 August, 2012 “A breath of fresh air.” That was the phrase that numerous people used over and over when I spoke to them after K2K’s launch of their 2013 Carnival presentation, The Human Race last Thursday. Twin designers Karen …
Originally written for and published in Caribbean Beat magazine in 2012. The full interview transcript is published here, and at Discover Trinidad & Tobago. In 2000, news spread about a Trinidad-born actress making waves on Broadway. Her command of her emotions made you sure that her onstage tears must come from some fresh real-world trauma. The truth was very …
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You know a country by how it treats its most vulnerable: its children, its seniors, its 'differently abled', its 'minorities', its natural environment - including its animals. Shame on us all, mostly for permitting so many governments and political parties to get it so, so wrong for so, so long. Shame. Shame. Shame. The Dangerous …
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Every role is challenging for me in its own way, but dramatic roles (in comedy-loving, or comedy-acclimated, Trini audiences) prove the most terrifying before a play's debut. Still, it is not often that an award-winning team of local actors are assembled on one stage, led by an award-winning director in a gripping local play by …
Continue reading This week: Queen’s Hall debut of Theresa Awai’s “Coming Home”
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