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MOZART IN MOTION: His Work and His World in Pieces, by Patrick Mackie Musicians tend to be wary of ascribing specific meanings to music or making too much of a piece's extra-musical associations.In one of his Norton Lectures at Harvard in 1973, turning to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, Leonard Bernstein asked the audience to forget all about birds and brooks and rustic pleasures and instead concentrate on pure music.

Gov. Mike Parson of Missouri said on Monday that he would not intervene to stop the execution of Michael Tisius, a 42-year-old who murdered two jail guards in 2000.In a clemency petition sent to Mr. Parson last month, several jurors who had voted to sentence Mr. Tisius to death said they now believe life imprisonment was appropriate.

On a Wednesday in March at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the art historian, curator and podcaster Katy Hessel lingered by Leonora Carrington's 1953 painting And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur.The mysterious dreamscape depicts a white bull in a red robe, seated at a table covered in crystal spheres.

Architect couple Leandro Garcia and Amanda Dalla-Bona have renovated a 1970s apartment in Curitiba, Brazil, for themselves, reconfiguring the layout and choosing eclectic furniture.All of the electrics and plumbing needed to be replaced, and the floor plan was rethought to create "a place to pause and retreat".

The Duchess of Edinburgh has said she is deeply saddened by the death of a woman who was hit by a motorcycle that was part of her police escort.Helen Holland, 81, was struck at the junction of West Cromwell Road and Warwick Road in Earl's Court, west London, on the afternoon of May 10.Ms Holland's son Martin told the BBC she died after sustaining multiple broken bones and massive internal injuries.

An elderly woman who was hit by a police motorcycle escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh is reportedly in a coma in hospital.The Metropolitan Police said the motorbike collided with a pedestrian at around 3.21pm on Wednesday at the junction of Cromwell Road and Warwick Road in west London, leaving her in a critical condition.

Prince Louis once again stole the royal show as he fidgeted, waved and yawned his way through his grandfather's coronation.The young prince, who recently turned five, stole hearts by waving to royal fans as he travelled to Westminster Abbey in a carriage with the Prince and Princess of Wales and his two siblings.

Mackenzie Crook said his family are clutching at straws a week after the disappearance of his sister-in-law but they remain determined and driven to find her.Laurel Aldridge, 62, who is the older sister of Mr Crook's wife, was reported missing from her home in Walberton, in the Arundel area of West Sussex, on Tuesday February 14.

Cassandra Jackson was in her 30s when she first encountered the expression replacement child, and it took her breath away.Coined by psychologists in the '60s to describe a son or daughter conceived to fill the void after another child's death, the term is the closest I will come, Jackson writes in her anguished, affecting memoir, THE WRECK: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother (Viking, 307 pp., $28), to a name for what I am.

What does it mean to be a pop songwriter in 2023?Part of the job is what it has always been: coming up with catchy melodies, terse lyrics and instrumental hooks; creating crisply defined verses and choruses; capturing short attention spans while tapping into broadly shared experiences.Pop structure is always happening in my songs, said Hannah Jadagu, 20, whose debut album, Aperture, will be released on Friday.

Stuart Hodes, who danced with Martha Graham in the 1940s and '50s and who for the rest of his life served the field of dance as a performer, choreographer, educator, administrator and author, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.He was 98.His daughter Martha Hodes confirmed the death, in a hospital.Mr. Hodes did not grow up as a dancer.

They sat quietly next to each other in the backseat a year ago, riding to the City Section girls' tennis individual finals, an awkward tension suddenly separating sisters.Johanna and Julianna Galindo didn't talk to each other at breakfast that morning either, silently eating bagels and eggs.Later that day, they'd be staring at each other on opposite sides of the net, two Marshall High stars playing for a singles championship.

A n elderly woman who was hit by a police motorcycle escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh is reportedly in a coma in hospital.The Metropolitan Police said the motorbike collided with a pedestrian at around 3.21pm on Wednesday at the junction of Cromwell Road and Warwick Road in west London, leaving her in a critical condition.

My friend Maureen Edwards, who has died aged 77, was a popular member of the congregation of Saint Anne's church, Wandsworth, in south-west London.Her association with St Anne's went back 53 years, and in January this year she was awarded the Lancelot Andrewes medal by the bishop of Southwark for godly service and zeal for the gospel.

The head of a school.A pastor's daughter.And three children still in the third grade.As yet another community reeled in the wake of a school mass shooting, details on the six victims began to surface Monday.Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney were all 9 years old when their lives were cut short by the 28-year-old gun-wielding former student who was killed by police in Nashville.

Emily is strikingly played by Emma Mackey, the French-British actor known for her work on the series Sex Education; she was also the best thing in the recent remake of Death on the Nile.Mackey has the kind of searing gaze that cuts right through any period-piece decorum, and that makes her perfect for the sardonic, self-amused Emily.

Emily is strikingly played by Emma Mackey, the French-British actor known for her work on the series Sex Education; she was also the best thing in the recent remake of Death on the Nile.Mackey has the kind of searing gaze that cuts right through any period-piece decorum, and that makes her perfect for the sardonic, self-amused Emily.

Jordan Houegban is a 16-year-old L.A. kid with African roots raised by a single mother.He fell in love with basketball from the first day he showed up as a 5-year-old at the Palisades Recreation Center."I was always telling my mom when I was young I wanted to play basketball," said Houegban, whose mother was born in Sierra Leon and father in Benin.

To be honest, I've said "yes" too many times in my career.Some have given me opportunities and blessings, while some have ended in resentment, regret, and burnout.Those regretful yeses left me feeling like an empty vessel of a person.Of a designer.Of an employee.My impulsive trigger for saying yes, or rather, my difficulty in saying no roots back to my childhood.

The family of a mother killed in a fire at her home in Stoke-on-Trent have paid tribute to her as a supportive, caring woman who always tried to keep the family together.Staffordshire Police have appealed directly to Georgian Constantin to give himself up following the death of his former wife Valentina Cozma in a blaze at her home on Campbell Road, Stoke-on-Trent, last Thursday.

Months after announcing that she had ditched her original name for her infant son, previously named "Wolf," Kylie Jenner finally dropped the new unique baby boy's name that she and his dad, Travis Scott, have landed on.And her son's new unique name has a sweet connection to his older sister, Stormi.

Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. (8) before a game against the Cleveland Browns.(Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)A 15-year-old who was charged in two high-profile crimes last year - the fatal shooting of a teenager and the wounding of Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. - pleaded guilty in both cases Monday.

Author Scott Neuman's sailboat, Symbiosis, on passage between St. Lucia and Martinique in 2017.Debbie Daigle There's another universe not far from land.It is devoid of buildings, trees, cars, cellphones and the internet.Seemingly limitless water extends uninterrupted in all directions.You don't have to travel a great distance to discover this other cosmos.

Byron Cohen/ABC via Getty Images My older sister has scrutinized every boyfriend I've ever brought home.But she isn't performing the standard quality control checks.She wants to know if they're good enough for ... our future Family Feud squad.For years we've been trying to put together an A-list lineup, always looking for the best formula of family members to take on our imaginary rivals.

Gerald Stern speaks to the audience during the National Book Awards in New York Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1998.Stern, one of the country's most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died.

Part of Molly Sampson's shark tooth collection including the tooth of a megalodon from some 15 million years ago (left) sits on display on Jan. 11.Her collection contains over 400 teeth.Alicia Sampson Molly Sampson's favorite Christmas present was the one she went out and got for herself that morning: a 5-inch-long Otodus megalodon tooth from a shark that lived millions of years ago.

Three members of an Albanian gang who brutally killed a 23-year-old and dumped him on a residential street in Cardiff have been jailed.The body of Tomasz Waga, from Dagenham in east London, was found on Westville Road in the Penylan area of the city on January 28 2021, having been severely beaten.Josif Nushi, Mihal Dhana and Hysland Aliaj were found guilty of taking part in Mr Waga's killing following a trial at Newport Crown Court.

A seven-year-old with a big heart and strong legs has raised more than 1,000 as a way of thanking staff who looked after him in hospital.Elliott Evans, from Swansea, spent almost two weeks in Morriston Hospital's Oakwood ward after banging his head while playing in a park.During that time, he celebrated his seventh birthday, with the nurses making a fuss and allowing him home with his family for the day.

Next year, South Koreans will turn a year or two younger  if only on paper.South Korean lawmakers voted on Thursday to standardize the way the government counts a person's age, in an attempt to move away from the use of several alternate methods  including a distinctively Korean tradition of counting people as 1 at birth and adding a year on Jan. 1.

Mouna Soualem is one of three actresses to play the adult Hasna in "You Resemble Me." (You Resemble Me)(3.5 stars) Hasna (Lorenza Grimaudo) and Mariam (Ilonna Grimaudo) are sisters, born two years apart but raised like twins; at 9 and 7, they run wild in the streets of suburban Paris while their mother sleeps at home.

There are lots of podcasts out there designed to lull people to sleep, be it through guided meditation, gentle storytelling, or straight-up hypnotism.is not one of them.In 2019, Rick & Morty writer Heather Anne Campbell and baleful Nick Wiger launched the podcast over their shared love of video games, in which they played and reviewed the worst and weirdest ones of past and present.

Three girls died after failings in the care they received from NHS mental health services in the north-east of England, an independent investigation has found.Who were the vulnerable girls who died within eight months of each other in 2019-20?Christie was born in Slough, Berkshire, in 2002.In 2008, the family moved to Durham.

NEW YORK  Gerald Stern, one of the country's most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died.He was 97.Stern, New Jersey's first poet laureate, died Thursday at Calvary Hospice in New York City, according to his longtime partner, Anne Marie Macari.

Gerald Stern, one of America's most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humour about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died aged 97.tern, New Jersey's first poet laureate, died on Thursday at Calvary Hospice in New York City, according to his longtime partner, Anne Marie Macari.

Gerald Stern, one of the US's most loved and respected poets, who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humour about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died.He was 97.Stern, New Jersey's first poet laureate, died on Thursday at Calvary Hospice in New York City, according to his longtime partner, Anne Marie Macari.

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.When Dorothy Spencer was asked what it took to become a film editor, her answer was always the same: patience.In a five-decade career, she worked as an editor on more than 70 movies and received four Academy Award nominations across a range of genres: the Oscar-winning 1939 western Stagecoach; the espionage thriller Decision Before Dawn (1951); the costume epic Cleopatra (1963); and the disaster movie Earthquake (1974).

Pierre Soulages, whose searching explorations of the color black established him as France's pre-eminent postwar abstract painter, died on Wednesday in Sete, a port city in southern France.He was 102.His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by Dominique Levy and Emilio Steinberger, the co-founder and senior partner of LGDR, the gallery that represents Mr. Soulages in the United States.