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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now

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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now

Marsalis: ‘Blues Symphony’ Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Jader Bignamini, conductor (Pentatone) I love when a new recording changes my mind. Previously, I had considered Wynton Marsalis’s Second Symphony (2009), known as the “Blues Symphony,” to be the least persuasive of his orchestral works. In 2019, he suggested that he felt similarly …

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Bertrand Blier, Acclaimed Director of Sexually Blunt Films, Dies at 85

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Bertrand Blier, Acclaimed Director of Sexually Blunt Films, Dies at 85

Bertrand Blier, an acclaimed director whose films scandalized, captivated and entertained 1970s and ’80s France with their sometimes brutal projections of French men’s sexual imaginations, died on Monday at his home in Paris. He was 85. His death was confirmed by his son Léonard Blier. For two decades Mr. Blier …

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