There are many artworks entitled The Kiss – Rodin, Klimt, Toulouse-Lautrec, etc – but this one is remarkable for being the very first on-screen kiss. It happened in April 1896, between actors May Irwin and John Rice, in Thomas Edison’s short film, called, not surprisingly, The Kiss.
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Wonderfully unexpected 1988 interview with John Williams by his old Hollywood pal, Andre Previn. Williams takes over, leaving Andre struggling to control the conversation… The post So, John Williams, what made you interested in […]
Richard Wagner’s only comic opera had a long gestation. Summer 1845: drawing on the History of German Literature as well as the biography of poet and shoemaker Hans Sachs, the composer sketches out ideas for a satirical […]
The yellow label has recruited its first Chinese composer, it was announced today. The new DG artist is Yu-Peng Chen, 41, a gaming composer known as ‘Archon’ (master) with 1.5 billion audio streams to his […]
