He was the first classical music star of the television age; the only one feted with a ticker-tape parade; the first to sell a million copies of an album; above all he was the Texan who brushed the frost off the cold war with his huge hands, modest manner and electrifying renditions of great Russian composers.It happened by chance.
There are the fine little nature studies of decomposing human forms and crawling insects framed in cast dirt that she has exhibited at White Columns, and the cutely sinister dollhouselike rendition of the modest one-room house she grew up in that can be seen, along with more drawings, in "Ostalgia," an exhibition of art inspired by life in Eastern Europe at the New Museum.
In the clip, the modest church volunteer wowed a skeptical panel of judges, including Simon Cowell, with her rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" from "Les Misérables".
Released as "I'm in the Mood for Love" (and credited to that song's writers) even though his rendition bore only the faintest resemblance to the original tune, it was a modest hit for Mr. Moody in 1951.
Otherwise, her record since 2005 includes the flops "Rendition" and "Penelope" (both of which topped out around $10 million in the U.S). and the modest success "Water for Elephants," which cost $38 million and earned back $57 million in North America.
Such compression by informed prediction (as Bell Telephone Labs first discovered back in the 1950s) can save enormously on bandwidth, allowing quite modest encodings to be reconstructed, by in effect "adding back in" the successfully predicted elements, into rich and florid renditions of the original sights and sounds.
Here's a recent rendition.
"My next rendition," he said.
That was extraordinary rendition, Greatest Generation style.
In Brendel's rendition, it did.
