Michael Colina is a multiple GRAMMY® winning composer and producer who is based in New York with deep musical roots in his fathers homeland, Cuba. In his commissions and recordings, Colina embraces classical, jazz and Latin music often in an engaging and distinctive mashup that displays his love for the sheer diversity of his musical influences.
Here is his lovely "Notturno," performed by internationally-acclaimed Anastasia Khitruk, violin, and Elizaveta Kopelman, piano.
This video was edited by Michael Bregman from materials supplied by Mr. Colina.
Please view in HQ and full screen. Mysterious, imaginative night-piece of shifting images from the creative husband-and-wife team of artist Gary Zaimont and composer Judith Lang Zaimont. Videography by Michael Bregman, and Doris Lang Kosloff leads the chamber ensemble. Judith’s “Borealis”, from SKY CURTAINS for mixed ensemble, is recorded on the CD “Neon Rhythm”.
A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome could well be the oldest person to vote in the 2008 US Presidential election.
Sister Cecilia Gaudette, who last voted for President Eisenhower in 1952, has registered to vote and says she will vote for Democrat Barack Obama.
Although hard of hearing, she keeps herself informed by reading newspapers and watching TV at the convent.
"I'm encouraged by Senator Obama," she says.
"I've never met him, but he seems to be a good man with a good private life. That's the first thing. Then he must be able to govern," she adds.
Sitting in her modest office in the convent where she has lived for the past 50 years, the diminutive nun appears uninterested in the row inside the American Catholic church over Senator Obama's support for pro-choice policies on abortion.
Asked about her hopes for the US under an Obama presidency, she says: "Peace abroad. I don't worry about the Iraq war because I can't do anything about it. Lord knows how it will end."
"It is very complicated," she said. "Those Eastern people are not like we are."
But despite taking part in the 4 November election, Sister Cecilia does not intend to return to the US.
"I have no plans for the future. I am too old to go back to the US. Life has changed too much."
But she still watches "very important events" on TV. The election comes under this category.
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