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The whiff of scandal surrounding Shostakovich’s Nose

Edit The Guardian 15 Oct 2016
With its cast of 80, a new English version of Shostakovich’s satirical opera The Nose is set to bring mayhem to Covent Garden, as its translator David Pountney explains ... This colourful collection of stories would inspire several operas by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky, and is a close cousin of the Jewish folktales from the shtetl that were lovingly recorded by Sholem Aleichem. My hero. Dmitri Shostakovich by Julian Barnes. Read more ... ....

20 great UK walks with pubs, chosen by nature writers

Edit The Guardian 15 Oct 2016
Pull on your boots and enjoy the countryside in all its autumn glory ... Pull on your boots and enjoy the countryside in all its autumn glory ... 1 Grassington, Yorkshire dales ... Encircled above by a searing escarpment, this magnificent oval-shaped expanse of cold cobalt blue is rich in myth and mystery (the most popular folktale tells of a beautiful fairy girl rising from the lake and begetting three sons who would become famed physicians) ... ....

Tall tales from Interstate 84 (OTE - Oregon Travel Experience)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Oct 2016
(Source. OTE - Oregon Travel Experience). Remember the American folktale about Babe the Blue Ox? You could say that Babe and his sidekick Paul Bunyan were a just a tad bit on the extra large size-gargantuan even. Recently, folklore almost came to life when two supersized oxen calmly grazed inside a horse corral at Oregon Travel Experience's Stanfield Rest Area ... A life's passion teaching pioneer history ... ... (noodl. 35805368) ....

Spectrum of classical dance

Edit The Hindu 13 Oct 2016
For followers of classical dance in Thiruvananthapuram, the season starts in the initial weeks of October, as Soorya hosts its annual dance and music festival ... Bharatanatyam. Rama Vaidyanathan ... Meenakshi Srinivasan ... Priyadarshini Govind ... The dance production, conceived and choreographed by Sharmila Mukerjee and presented by her along with members of Sanjali Dance Ensemble, was based on the folktale ‘A Flowering Tree’ by A.K....

The spartan lyricist

Edit The Hindu 12 Oct 2016
On October 6, the Manipuri theatre stalwart Oja Heisnam Kanhailal passed away after a brief illness. He was 75 ... Then there are his plays ... His popular plays like Pebet , a 1975 production based on fireside stories, and 1973’s Kabuui-Keioiba , based on a folktale about a strange ‘half-man half-tiger’ creature, are marked by this non-verbal veneer of sheer expressiveness that conveys everything demanded of their themes ... ....

Sahibaan remains unheard

Edit The Hindu 11 Oct 2016
Many Indian filmmakers seem to be so convinced of the legendary status of certain folktales and short stories that they fail to consider them as products of a different time. Tales from our ‘hoary’ folklore, such as Heer-Ranjha, Laila-Majnu, and Sohni-Mahiwal, were outputs of a period when both the political system and the social settings were loaded against the lead women ... Mirza-Sahiban is no different ... Keywords....

The Master of Highbrow Horror

Edit The Atlantic 11 Oct 2016
The director Guillermo del Toro won’t have a feature film out in 2016, but his brand—and his spirit—seem to be everywhere ... A ... And in Robert Eggers’s The Witch (2015)—subtitled A New-England Folktale—the question of belief in monsters, the basic del Toro theme, takes on a different sort of urgency, because the children here belong to a family of devout 17th‑century Puritans settled on a sere, ungiving patch of land ... ....

Guy Ritchie to Direct Live-Action Aladdin for Disney

Edit Coming Soon 10 Oct 2016
Guy Ritchie to direct live-action Aladdin for Disney ... His next film will be�King Arthur ... Based on the�Middle-Eastern�folktale Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, the 1992 animated film was co-directed by�Ron Clements and�John Musker, who had previously-directed The Little Mermaid and would go on to make other Disney classics including Hercules,�Treasure Planet,�The Princess and the Frog, and the upcoming�Moana ... The Animated Series ... ....

Community Foundation For Southeast Michigan And Detroit Auto Dealers Association Announce Largest Round Of Grantmaking In DADA Charitable Foundation Fund’s History (NAIAS - North American International Auto Show)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Oct 2016
... - Albion, $30,500for support for the expansion of training that holistically responds to the effects of trauma on children and adults in Macomb County Wild Swan Theater (www.wildswantheater.org) - Ann Arbor, $29,200for support for an original main stage and touring production for elementary school audiences, inspired by folktales from Arab culture....

Merch yr Eog/Merc’h an Eog review – a salmon man’s upstream struggle

Edit The Guardian 09 Oct 2016
3 / 5 stars. Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth. This Welsh/Breton co-production has a fine cast but suffers from prosaic writing and a dramatically challenged translation app ... Based on a play by Welsh novelist Owen Martell and Breton actress Aziliz Bourgès, there is, as the title (The Salmon’s Daughter) suggests, a poetic, folktale quality to the story, which is powerfully present in the look and sound of the production ... Twitter ... ....

A spooky sojourn

Edit The Times of India 08 Oct 2016
Get rid of all your fears by meeting the dead and the deadly in Salem, a little town near Boston, Massachusetts. Lights turn on and off on their own, creaking doors open and shut by themselves, and gusts of wind blow through the house even when there is no ventilation ... There's an eerie story at every nook and corner. But it also means you have endless gripping folktales to narrate to your friends back home. Get Ready For Fear-Driven Fun....

Brothers Grimm trail opens Oct. 14

Edit The Mercury News 07 Oct 2016
The Moreland Education Foundation’s annual pumpkin patch will feature a spooky and “Grimm” twist this year. The pumpkin patch opens Oct. 14 and will feature a new Brothers Grimm-themed trail for visitors to walk. Actors portraying characters from the brother’s folktales will take to the “Grimm’s Hollow” trail as guests complete a quest to find Little Red Riding Hood ... A carnival is set for Oct ... 30....

'Killer clowns' in Canada: Why are these sightings spreading?

Edit BBC News 07 Oct 2016
After a wave of "creepy" clowns were spotted across the United States late this summer, the phenomenon seems to have migrated north to Canada. Why are these sightings spreading? ... More reports have spread on Twitter and Facebook ... But sometimes it can turn much darker, such as when two young girls in Wisconsin killed their friend in 2014 to appease "Slenderman," an internet meme turned folktale created by the artist Eric Knudsen ... ....
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