" Chapeau bas, Messieurs, un génie... " La parution, en 1831, des Variations pour piano et orchestre sur le thème célèbre de "Là ci darem la mano " de Don Giovanni vaut à Frédéric Chopin ce compliment de taille, lancé par Robert Schumann. Vienne l'accueille et lui fait un triomphe, mais la guerre russo-polonaise l'éloigne à jamais de son pays. A Paris, Chopin trouve la gloire, l'amour, et " le meilleur opéra du monde ". Mais la solitude et la tristesse de l'exil qui nourrissent son oeuvre auront raison de sa santé fragile. Michel Pazdro retrace l'itinéraire de ce virtuose aux " doigts de velours ".

Toneelstuk over het conflict tussen Periander, tiran van Korinthe, en zijn zoon Lykofron die weigert zijn vader op te volgen, gebaseerd op gegevens van Herodotus en Diogenes Laërtius.

The Matrix trilogy continues to split opinions widely, polarising the downright dismissive and the wildly enthusiastic. Nevertheless, it has been fully embraced as a rich source of theoretical and cultural references. The contributions in this volume probe the effects the Matrix trilogy continues to provoke and evaluate how or to what extent they coincide with certain developments within critical and cultural theory. Is the enthusiastic philosophising and theorising spurred by theMatrix a sign of the desperate state theory is in, in the sense of “see how low theory (or 'post-theory') has sunk”? Or could the Matrix be one of the “master texts” for something like a renewal for theory as now being mainly concerned with new and changing relations between science, technology, posthumanist culture, art, politics, ethics and the media? The present volume is unashamedly but not dogmatically theoretical even though there is not much agreement about what kind of theory is best suited to confront “post-theoretical” times. But it is probably fair to say that there is agreement about one thing, namely that if theory appears to be “like” the Matrix today it does so because the culture around it and which “made” it itself seems to be captured in some kind of Matrix. The only way out of this is through more and renewed, refreshed theorising, not less.

Verklaringen van de bijnamen van sommige klassieke composities.

Toneeltekst over een jaloerse koning. Schooluitgave met woordverklaringen in het Nederlands.

“'Must' reading for any pianist concerned with Beethoven's music, which is to say almost every pianist alive.” —William Rothstein, Musical Times