House, Rosecliff, Ochre Court and more -- the Newport Music Festival is one of the world’s most extraordinary music events, the peak experience of summer for many music lovers. This special collection of concerts and highlights includes the Newport debut of 20-year-old American pianist Adam Golka, "Chopiniana" with French superstars Jean-Philippe Collard and Henri Demarquette, "Lisztening Post" (music by Franz Liszt, with six pianists), an all-Schumann program by world-renowned pianist Eduardus Halim, "Pieces of Eight" (octets and piano eight hands), and "Newport Music Fest Goes POPS!," with new Mozart improvisations by pianist John Bayless and suggestions from the audience. DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE commentary clips featuring longtime ...  (less)

Prix France-Québec Jean-Hamelin. He died in September 2000.This astounding novel fully deserves to be called a saga. It begins a thousand years ago in the time of the Vikings in Newfoundland. It is crammed with incidents of war and peace, with fights to the death and long nights of lovemaking, and with accounts of the rise of local clan chiefs and the silent fall of great distant empires. Out of the mists of the past it sweeps forward eight hundred years, to the lonely death of the last of the Beothuk.brbrThe Beothuk, of course, were the original native people of Newfoundland, and thus the first North American natives encountered by European sailors. Noticing the red ochre they used as protection against mosquitoes, the sailors called them “Red-skins,” a name that was to affect an entire continent. As a people, they never were to be understood. EveniThe Canadian Encyclopedia/iadmits: “Very little is known about Beothuk society and even less about Beothuk history.”brbrUntil now. By adding his novelist’s imagination to his knowledge as an anthropologist and a historian, Bernard Assiniwi has written a convincing account of the Beothuk people through the ages. To do so he has given us a mirror image of the history rendered by Europeans. For example, we know from the Norse Sagas that four slaves escaped from the Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows. What happened to them? Bernard Assiniwi supplies a plausible answer, just as he perhaps solves the mystery of the Portuguese ships that sailed west in 1501 to catch more Beothuk, and disappeared from the paper records forever.brbrThe story of the Beothuk people is told in three parts. “The Initiate@  (less)

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