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The late, great pianist is Huang’s favorite, but if she tried to mimic his daring interpretations, “it would not be very good,” she says.
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The 14-year-old pianist wants to drag classical music into the 21st century by creating an iPhone app for fans of the German composer.
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Keeping track of all the different voices in a Bach piece is a fun way to improve your technique, says the 14-year-old champion pianist—but it can also affect your brain.
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“If you put down your controller for just a second while playing Mario Kart—wham—you’ll crash and lose a life.” The 14-year-old champion pianist says the consequences are similar, albeit less […]
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From a distance, Johann Sebastian Bach’s pieces seem so “simple and pure,” says the 14-year-old pianist. But on “the inside” they are much more complex.
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New tools and methodologies involve the consumer in the development and review of the creative process more than ever before. The best marketers bring the consumer in early on to […]
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Following the gulf oil spill disaster, the best thing that BP can do is to clean up the mess as quickly as possible. “Their actions will allow them then to […]
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A conversation with the Global CEO of Razorfish.
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The past doesn’t so much teach us specific lessons as give us an appreciation for the complexity of the issues we face.
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Problems in corporate America are often connected to the fact that management is no longer answerable to the people who actually own their companies.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt couldn’t spell, but he had a consummate passion for competition.
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Digitization has actually made working on biographies more laborious. The sheer amount of material means that the process actually takes longer if you’re going to be thorough.
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Although biographies often focus on individuals, they’re really about exploring big historical trends.
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A conversation with the Cornelius Vanderbilt biographer.
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Digital books and iPads are certainly changing the way that people write, but so did computers when they first came out. You just have to move with the culture and […]
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Writing a novel isn’t a practical, logical thing to do. The author starts by writing an outline from an “emotional place” and then becomes a “cool technician” to shape it […]
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“It’s very easy to write a script compared to a book,” says the author. A novel is not a logical thing and it doesn’t come from a logical place—a screenplay […]
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It’s much less fun to release a book these days—with all the necessary Twitter and Facebook promotions—than when the novelist began.
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The author has “no idea” why characters from his previous novels reappear in his new ones. “It just feels right.”