Consequence Sound and others feature Ryuichi Sakamoto’s final performance last March.
Ryuichi Sakamoto’s final performance before passing in late March was captured for a concert film titled Opus, set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 5th.
Recorded without an audience in December 2022, the film solely features the late Japanese composer and electronic music pioneer on his piano as he plays 20 handpicked pieces spanning his entire career, from his initial success as co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra to his film scores for The Last Emperor to his final album, 12. Sakamoto performs several works as solo piano performances for the first time, including The Wuthering Heights, Ichimei — Small Happiness, and a new arrangement of the 1978 Yellow Magic Orchestra track “Tong Poo.” (Eddie Fu)
A contributor to
LitHub discusses access to literature in prison.
One evening, I walked out of the cellblock through white hallways to do some research in the prison’s general library. I live in Sullivan Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison tucked in the Catskills. The library is spacious and bright, with rows of fluorescent lights that bathe bookcases of 12,000 books. I dropped three book returns on the inmate clerk’s desk, as Ms. Fishman, the librarian, swiveled her chair in my direction and greeted me with her Bronx accent. I smiled and asked for Charlette [sic] Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
As she looked up titles in the computer, I searched the shelves, top to bottom, not for any book in particular. I was looking for a novel with strong intent; I was on a mission to read great literature. Once I spotted the author, or the title, I would know. After a few minutes of idle browsing, I suggested to Ms. Fishman that they devote one bookcase to the classics. “We’re lucky we have books,” Ms. Fishman said. I didn’t argue. Prison libraries, no matter how scantily stocked, represent keyholes to freedom.
Ms. Fishman told me no Jane Eyre and she only had Crime and Punishment in Spanish. (Robert Lee Williams)
Wuthering Heights is one of the '7 classic romance novels everyone should read' according to
Times of India.
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