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When artists break through by doing what they think will make them famous, not what they love, expressing their "real" selves becomes far harder.
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When Maria Schneider looks out at her audiences, she sees "mostly young people." Meanwhile, jazz continues to assimilate new genres at lightning speed.
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Since composing her first dance work ("Dissolution"), Maria Schneider has created all her music while dancing around her apartment. The neighbors may stare, but the results are exhilarating.
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Creative juices dry up when artists fear their best work is behind them. As a potter once taught Maria Schneider, the solution is to "break your bowls" and move on.
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What is the relationship between composition and improvisation in jazz? Grammy Award winner Maria Schneider explains.
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How one of America’s finest jazz composers brings music into "three-dimensional space," and why writing for an orchestra can be an expression of love.
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Once the composer recognized the gender imbalance in the jazz world, she developed a theory about why women are discouraged from the arts.
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Hearing her piano teacher play for the first time, composer Maria Schneider felt like Dorothy stepping into Oz.
The US Army general in northern Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of behavior which could lead to a court martial while serving under his command.
Israel has admitted harvesting organs from the bodies of Palestinians and Israelis without permission from their families during the 1990s.
A top rabbi has accused the Pope of “insensitivity” towards Jews after he moved his World War II era predecessor Pope Pius XII a step close to sainthood.
The “Arbeit macht frei” sign stolen from Auschwitz on Friday has been recovered in Northern Poland and five men are now being questioned by police.
Iran’s opposition has seized upon the death of one of the republic’s founding fathers, Grand Ayatolllah Hossein Ali Montazeri, to take to the streets in mourning.
Early this morning the Democrats won a major victory in the push for health care reform after the Senate voted to end debate on a package of controversial revisions to the bill.
A satellite has captured images of “night-shining clouds”, which form at high altitudes and glow after night falls, and NASA has used them to create a new map of the formations.
Scientists paid a load of young people to get drunk and then analysed the results to find out which alcoholic beverages produced the worst hangover – with interesting results!
An engineering team has developed face recognition software which they claim is “remarkably accurate in realistic situations” unlike existing face recognition systems.
Aurora borealis, or the Northern Lights, can sometimes collide producing spectacular displays of light according to NASA which deployed cameras around the Arctic to catch the phenomenon.
Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom loves investigating the things that make our minds uniquely human, from fiction and art to religion and morality. But where many scientists would be content […]