David Kent Randall

Un'indagine brillante e riccamente documentata sulle misteriose ore che occupano quasi un terzo della nostra vita. L'investigazione è tanto più avvincente in quanto il giovane ramo della scienza che se ne occupa ha scoperto che nel nostro corpo, durante il sonno, succedono molte più cose di quanto si pensasse, non meno importanti di quelle che ci accadono da svegli. La più straordinaria di queste scoperte è che una buona consapevolezza di quei meccanismi neurologici aiuta a dormire meglio. E quando si dorme bene, si vive più sani e più a lungo. Il testo è inoltre ricco di informazioni utili e pratiche su come vincere l'insonnia senza farmaci, smettere di russare, convincere i vostri figli ad andare a letto.

Freddie Hubbard got a bad rap from jazz critics while at Columbia – most absolutely hated the music he made there because it indulged pop, soul, funk, and even disco abundantly. He got the last laugh, though. The critics were wrong. Great Britain's BGO offers proof in this two-disc set that contains Hubbard's first three Columbia albums from the mid-'70s: High Energy (1974), the provocatively titled Liquid Love (1975), and Windjammer (1976). Hubbard employed his own quintet on High Energy (something he couldn't do previously at CTI), which was comprised of Junior Cook, George Cables, Kent Brinkley, and Ralph Penland.

Canadian composer Brian Current’s The Seven Heavenly Halls is the result of his being declared winner of the inaugural Azrieli Commission in September 2015. The work premiered on October 19, 2016 at the Maison symphonique by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal with tenor Frederic Antoun as soloist and Kent Nagano conducting.

When Leonard Bernstein was asked by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to compose the inaugural work for the opening of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., he wrote: “The Mass is also an extremely dramatic event in itself—it even suggests a theater work.” Premiered on September 8, 1971, with additional words by Stephen Schwartz of Godspell fame, Mass is a remarkable, visionary work with a kaleidoscope of musical styles that touches on themes of political protest, existential crisis and religious faith lost and found.