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The Garden of Forking Paths—website
on the work of Jorge Luis Borges.
Piazzolla.org—website
on the work of Astor Piazzolla, including the Piazzolla Listening Booth—a database of Piazzolla's music, available for listening.
One of my favorites is "The rough dancer and the cyclical night (Tango apasionado)".
The Tango Lesson—website
on the 1997 film by Sally Potter. Video clips with magnificent dancing
(tango, milonga, waltz)
and music.
Tango impressions from Nijmegen on YouTube:
Todotango—Everything
you always wanted to know about tango… (in English and Spanish).
BBC documentary "The tango salon: La Confiteria Ideal", featuring Javier Rodriguez and Geraldine Rojas, among others. Fragment 1 and fragment 2.
"Mozart Tango" ballet of Maurice Béjart, including, among others, Mozart's Rondo K.382 and German Dance No.3 K.605, and the tangos El Flete, La Cumparsita, El Choclo, and A La Gran Muñeca. Mozart wrote some 200 dances and was a good dancer himself (Mozart and dance).
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Books (in
Dutch) on cycling and soccer—"De man en zijn fiets" [The man and
his bike] by Wilfried de Jong,
and "Over vaders en zonen"
[About fathers and sons] by Hugo Borst—absolutely
wonderful.
Holland Sport—Live programme on Dutch television, every Monday evening from 2004-2011 (it stopped in June 2011).
The programme that I attended: March 7, 2011
The Mozart Forum—site dedicated to the discussion of the music, person, and world of Mozart.
Magnificent book "Mozart's women" by Jane Glover, viewing Mozart through the women in his life, including his mother, sister Nannerl, the four Weber [Weaver] sisters (among them his wife Constanze), and the women in his operas.
One of my favorite opera pieces is the trio "Soave sia il vento" from Mozart’s Così fan tutte.
Horowitz plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, K.488 Horowitz listening and commenting his performance Pas de deux "Abandon" by Isabelle Guérin and Laurent Hilaire danced to the Adagio from Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 (from the ballet Le Parc by Angelin Preljocaj)—breathtakingly beautiful.
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Buitenkunst (Open-air Arts)—Site on seasonal dance, theatre, music,
literature, and visual arts projects in which professional practitioners in
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Father and
Daughter—Brilliant
short (8:30 min) animated film by Michael Dudok de
Wit.
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