Blind (2017)

Un amore inaspettato mostra una storia intensa e passionale che porta dritta all'altare, anche se non sono i protagonisti a scambiarsi gli anelli. La damigella d'onore Molly Quinn (Danica McKellar), affermata stilista di New York in procinto di firmare una nuova linea d'abbigliamento - Bestselling novelist Bill Oakland loses his wife and his sight in a vicious car crash. Five years later, socialite Suzanne Dutchman is forced to read to Bill in an intimate room three times a week as a plea bargain for being associated with her husband's insider trading.

Selected by ECHO (the European Concert Hall Organisation) as one of its ‘Rising Stars’ of the 2009/10 season, the Swedish clarinettist Emil Jonason has become increasingly visible on the international music scene. For his first disc on the BIS label he has chosen to record a concerto written for him by his compatriot Christian Lindberg, composer, conductor and legendary trombonist. As Lindberg remarks in his own note on the work, the soloist was involved at all stages of the compositional process. But the Erratic Dreams are the composer’s own – as is the figure of Mr Grönstedt, the main character of those dreams, and of the six movements that make up the colourful score.

At the outset, composer Christian Lindberg decided to associate clarinettist Emil Jonason in all phases of his writing process - from the first embryos that would become the main themes of the concerto, to the most subtle details of the two Cadences solistes, which he conceived at the very end. The title of the work, The Fantastic Dreams of Mr Grönstedt, would have been inspired, according to Lindberg, by the name of a Swedish cognac from the Grönstedt brand founded in 1846 on the one hand by the character of the clarinettist Emil Jonason on the other hand. In these mysterious dreams, one sees an innocent character who is preparing for a spring ball, or who meets a certain Lisa dressed in his magic mantle, among other fantasies.

A novelist blinded in a car crash which killed his wife rediscovers his passion for both life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

A novelist blinded in a car crash which killed his wife rediscovers his passion for both life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

Put Raul Midón in a box and he'll jump right out. Songwriter, instrumentalist, mouth-musician, soul singer, jazz improvisor, Latin songster, guitarist, baritone. None of those identifiers works alone to define his musical strengths. He is all, and more of them, and there's no box that will contain him. His ribbons of talent overflow; they don't tie him up and they are all on display on his upcoming Artistry Music release 'Bad Ass and Blind'.

MasterChef Canada is the Canadian version of the international cooking competition television show MasterChef, now in its 4th season. In Episode 4 in the 4th season, the top 10 cooks are blindfolded while working in pairs in honor of Canada's upcoming 150th birthday, all while bringing in a special guest from the last season of MasterChef Canada.

Ever since the 20th century turned into the 21st, singer-songwriter and guitarist Raul Midón has earned renown as one of music’s most distinctive and searching voices – “a one-man band… who is spiritually connected,” according to The New York Times, and “an eclectic adventurist,” in the words of People magazine.