Certain critics have analyzed his music and his stories and concluded that his operas are too easily enjoyable, and maybe not intellectual enough, to justify Puccini's great success.

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Working with professional film makers they were encouraged to explore stories, the music and the language of the Gypsy heritage of Wales.

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They liked realistic art (proper pictures of proper things), classical music traditionally interpreted, and good solid stories with a nice uplifting moral.

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We shared laughter, tears, stories, meals and music.

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But it was fun to watch them tell their stories and talk about this music that's clearly so important to them.

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And he plans to launch a quarterly magazine in Europe filled with stories and pictures evoking the Red Bull world: music, extreme sports, night life, social trends.

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It tells the personal stories of men and women on the frontline, with music they listen to away from home.

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Wolfgang Mozart didn't just write pretty incidental music for the court, Jane Austen didn't just write love stories and Bonnard didn't just paint pretty flowers, bowls of fruit and tabletops.

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But there are more stories of peaceful coexistence, and that's most vividly expressed through music.

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Playing his favorite music, holding hands together, telling stories that praised Rich while touching humorously on his quirks and forgivable faults.

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His self-styled journey of discovery included stories on endangered lemurs of Madagascar, dying Arabic-Swahili music styles in Tanzania and bungee jumping over the Zambezi River in Zambia.

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