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Guy Lodge Film Critic At the height of his career, Czech-born composer Josef Mysliveček was the most prolific and sought-after figure in Italian opera, bound for immortal celebrity. Nearly three centuries later, his name isn’t forgotten to classical music scholars, but neither does it have anything approaching household status; the facts and records of his personal life, meanwhile, have largely been lost to history. Via a blend of free narrative speculation and exacting musical presentation, Petr Vaclav’s stately, sumptuous biopic “Il Boemo” seeks to restore a degree of iconic status to a talent latterly overshadowed by relative 18th-century contemporaries, albeit not with much swagger or modernity of its own: This is costume drama of a traditional, ornately brocaded stripe, a classical music lesson for classicists.

EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Flute Film will operate as Flimmer going forwards, after Christopher Zwickler reacquired rights to the Flimmer brand. Roland Emmerich and Marco Kreuzpaintner, who co-founded Flimmer with Zwickler, have joined its advisory board.

Felix Mendelssohn was a 19th-century musical prodigy in Germany whose stature in the 19th century came close to rivaling that of a towering Austrian giant from a century earlier, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.Both were acclaimed pianists, conductors, and teachers in their respective eras, and compositions from the two are represented in the last concert of the National Chamber Ensemble’s Season 15, dubbed the “Reuniting with the Masters, Live!” season.The Arlington-based group’s “Marvelous Mozart and Mendelssohn” program features a piano quartet from each composer: the Piano Quartet No. 2 in E Flat Major, which Mozart composed in 1786, or just five years before his death at age 35; and the Piano Quartet No.

Eddie Van Halen's son Wolf hilariously expressed his relief that Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott's new baby no longer shares his name.Kylie and Travis welcomed their second little bundle of joy last month and announced that they had called him Wolf Webster.However Kylie, 24, revealed this Monday that they had decided to change the name, prompting Wolf Van Halen to tweet: 'THANK F***.' Phew:Eddie Van Halen's son Wolf hilariously expressed his relief that Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott's new baby no longer shares his name Delight: Kylie, 24, revealed this Monday that they had decided to change the name, prompting Wolf Van Halen to tweet: 'THANK F***'Kylie dropped the bombshell on her Insta Stories on Monday, writing: 'FYI OUR SONS NAME ISN'T WOLF ANYMORE.'She explained: 'WE JUST REALLY DIDN'T FEEL LIKE IT WAS HIM. JUST WANTED TO SHARE BECAUSE I KEEP SEEING WOLF EVERYWHERE.' Wolf Van Halen, whose full name is Wolfgang, is the son of the late Eddie Van Halen and the onetime sitcom star Valerie Bertinelli.His famous parents apparently named Wolf after the legendary Habsburg-era composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Radio Times magazine, of her Desert Island Discs appearance in 1987.“I was so scared and I knew nothing about anything.“I shouldn’t have done it then.“I wasn’t ready,” she added.During her appearance on the show, Elaine chose a song from one of her favourite musicals.She picked Something’s Coming from West Side Story, sung by Barbra Streisand.Her other selections included tracks from The Beatles (Here Comes The Sun), The Everly Brothers (All I Have To Do Is Dream) and Paul Simon (Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes).She also included two classical pieces of music.George Frideric Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s aria Der Hölle Rache (from The Magic Flute).Her final choices were Lena Horne with I Got A