Among Germany’s most popular and influential comedians, Otto Waalkes hasn’t only recorded a lot of strike humor albums, starred in immensely successful films tailored to match his comic persona, written bestselling books, drawn popular comics, and gathered numerous honours — since he offers risen to popularity in the mid-’70s, he …

American composer Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) was, along with William Schuman and Walter Piston, among the most important associates of what is becoming known, somewhat inappropriately, as the American educational school of composition. Blessed in Philadelphia through the First Globe War, Persichetti began monitoring music at age 5, acquiring lessons in …