Kim Bülow Bonfils
At its release in 1985, this was praised as the ultimate biography of the infamous German terror organization, Rote Armee Fraktion. And to this day, I can’t imagine a more perfect telling of this traumatic story.
In the academic discipline of “Big History,” historians and thinkers attempt to draw the grand lines of human history. And it’s no wonder that Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” has become many people’s first encounter with this discipline. He writes in an easily readable style with a lot of humour – and his arguments strike a...
In the small German town of Halberstadt, a piece of music history unfolds: John Cage’s organ work “Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible)” is being performed – with a planned duration of 639 years.
There are two kinds of extraordinary musical experiences: One is hearing something unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. The other is not being bored for a single moment. It’s rare that I can tick both boxes. But when David Thomas visited Jazzhouse in Copenhagen, I could.
Night after night, a man stands by his elevator with a suitcase, waiting for the secret police to take him away and punish him for his crimes.The man is the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, the setting is Stalin’s Soviet Union, and the crime is his music.
Today, most people think of the music video as appearing in the 1980s, gaining momentum with the rise of MTV, and at the very least being closely linked to the invention of videotape. However, the music video actually had a quirky predecessor named Scopitone—and it is quite a charming acquaintance.
