Audrey Hepburn is photographed for Glamour magazine at a farmhouse in Cecchina She was there filming “War and Peace.” The Norman Parkinson Archive/Iconic Images/ACC Art Book It’s one of the reasons the actress remains an icon today But she was also a pro who was a joy to work with “She never kept you waiting,” says Douglas Kirkland a celebrated photographer who worked with Hepburn on a couple of her films Hepburn is photographed backstage at the Fulton Theatre preparing for her Broadway debut in the play “Gigi.” Lawrence Fried/Iconic Images/ACC Art Books In a new book, “Always Audrey,” Kirkland describes what made Hepburn so special “She was always working for the camera,” said Kirkland who has photographed countless movie stars over his career and when she came to our set for setups or stills ready and on time with her wardrobe and hair done precisely I wish there were more Audrey Hepburns today.” Douglas Kirkland/Iconic Images/ACC Art Books Hepburn poses for Glamour magazine in 1955 The Norman Parkinson Archive/Iconic Images/ACC Art Books Kirkland is one of six photographers whose work is featured in “Always Audrey.” The book shows Hepburn on and off stage We went through the negatives and selected images that best represented not only the photographer and the photographer's sort of view and how they worked with Audrey but also showing a real evolution of Audrey as a star,” said Carrie Kania which represents the photographers’ archives “Every decade is represented from the ’50s up into the ’80s and her last film.” The idea for the book came as they went through the archives of Lawrence Fried an award-winning photographer who covered movie stars famous musicians and even world leaders such as John F “We were just absolutely struck by the Audrey Hepburn photos,” she recalled “This is young Audrey in New York City when she just got the role of ‘Gigi’ on Broadway right before she became the star that she is today.” Two years later Hepburn starred in her first Hollywood film “Roman Holiday,” and she went on to win the Academy Award for best actress Hepburn poses for The American Magazine in 1952 Lawrence Fried/Iconic Images/ACC Art Books Hepburn is one of just 15 people who have won an Academy Award Hepburn starred in films such as “Sabrina,” “Funny Face” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Legendary photographers jumped at the chance to work with her You have to remember that there weren’t dozens of television programs back then to promote a new movie and sell tickets Stars depended on publicity from magazines and newspapers and they put their trust in photographers to show them in their best light “They knew the value of a photographer and they knew the value of a great photo appearing in a magazine or newspaper and what that would do to further enhance their career,” Kania said Hepburn on the set of “War and Peace” in 1955 Hepburn seemed to know this as much as any celebrity at the time She also knew herself and what worked for her on camera “She had a great personal style and she maintained a great personal style through the decades,” Kania said “So as the decades visually changed with fashion she always sort of very much remained true to what worked best on her.” In addition to photos from Fried and Kirkland “Always Audrey” features work from fashion photography pioneer Norman Parkinson Greene and on-set photographers Terry O’Neill and Eva Sereny Hepburn is photographed in New York City in 1951 starring on the Broadway play “Gigi” at the time Hepburn on the set of the 1966 film “How to Steal a Million.” Terry O'Neil/Iconic Images/ACC Art Books Contact sheets from the “How to Steal a Million” photo shoot O’Neill worked with Hepburn on the sets of two films: “How to Steal a Million” and “Two for the Road.” But he says in the book that he hopes his photos portray what Hepburn was like off camera “She was one of the most kind and generous people I’ve ever worked with,” he said “She lit up a room and never took a bad picture My job was easy — I just had to be there and press the button “I can’t say enough good things about Audrey Hepburn waits for the next scene on the set of “How to Steal a Million.” Terry O'Neil/Iconic Images/ACC Art Books Industry news and insights from Europe and around the World Keep up-to-date with the latest new products and technology ITALY: Along with the opening of a new climatic test chamber at its Italian chiller factory Daikin Applied Europe has announced a new witness testing service for clients is said to offer testing to recognised international standards across a range of operational modes The development follows significant investment at Daikin Applied Europe’s Cecchina factory in 2016 New production lines dedicated to water-cooled chillers have since been introduced together with the development of new testing infrastructures The state-of the-art testing centre is said to follow a rigorous set of procedures to ensure proper operation of Daikin products in any environment 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beginning of October 2018 with tests now being scheduled for new orders confirmed as of August Cooling Post is the leading online resource covering latest news and developments in the cooling industry air conditioning news and the latest heat pump developments Privacy & Cookie Policy © Copyright 2025, Cooling Post Ltd - All Rights Reserved | Website by Capital Web This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Authors have striven for the same effect since is widely regarded as the first English novel Considering current events, it should also be noted that the novel is about sexual harassment: its fifteen-year-old protagonist is continually threatened with sexual assault by her boss Pamela Andrews’s virtue is rewarded… with marriage to Mr as her goodness transforms him from beast to charming husband (insert question marks) Then there were parodies and pastiches. Some, like Henry Fielding’s An Apology for the life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, was highly critical of the original. In Fielding’s view, Pamela was just a Shamela, a gold-digger feigning virtue as she worked her wiles on the squire, now named Booby. There were also translations and translations of translations: an Italian knock-off was translated into English and then this English translation was translated into French. And the Marquis de Sade’s Justine, subtitled the “The Misfortunes of Virtue,” is thought to be a riposte to the whole Pamela-megillah. Once he had dropped the charade that he was merely the editor of the letters that made up his book, Richardson bemoaned that this creation was “basely Ravished out of my Hands” by everybody cashing in on his handiwork. Richardson’s language is telling. As Taylor details, the body of Pamela and the body of the text of Pamela were intertwined, embodying each other. Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); One is tempted to note that times have changed, but there are enough efforts to censor books (and other media) all over the world to suggest otherwise today. Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_3" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Sorry, this audio is not yet available or has expiredBrought to you by Francesca Caccini was an Italian composer and singer who worked in the court of the famous Medici family in the 17th Century. She was known by the nickname 'La Cecchina' by the Florentines, and served the Medicis as a teacher, singer and composer until 1627, becoming the most well-paid musician at court. It's her birthday today, so you'll hear some of her surviving works, including part of her opera La liberazione di Ruggiero, the earliest surviving opera written by a woman. Also on the program today, Alice Keath shines a spotlight on the Australian ensemble, the Marais Project, with their recordings of Roman, Morel and... Marais! Plus plenty more Baroque gold, including another recording from Christian Li's Four Seasons release. ((Still Life with Musical Instruments and Books, Bartholomeo Bettera)) BaroqueTracklist07:00Played at 07:00Ciaccona [04'35]Composer Francesca Caccini: Sacred and Secular Songs, 94461 Marshall McGuire (harp) + Genevieve Lacey (recorder) The Marais Project + Melissa Farrow (baroque flute) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra + Christian Li (violin) Bach Collegium Japan + Peter Kooij (bass) + Hana Blažíková (soprano) + Gerd Türk (tenor) + Robin Blaze (countertenor) Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 52 - Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BIS-1981 Elena Cecchi Fedi (soprano) + Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini Francesco Cavalli: L'Amore Innamorato, 0825646166428 Choeur de Chambre de Namur + Giulia Genini (bassoon) + Maximilian Ehrhardt (harp) + Pierre-Louis Retat (positive organ) Mario Capuana & Bonaventura Rubino: Requiem, RIC 353 Huelgas Ensemble + Michaela Riener (mezzo-soprano) + Achim Schulz (tenor) + Sabine Lutzenberger (soprano) Francesca Caccini: La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, G0100035453371 Musica Alta Ripa + Ursula Bundies (viola) Telemann: Overtures, Sonatas & Concertos, 3091189-2 Published: 27 Apr 2025Sun 27 Apr 2025 at 5:00am Published: 26 Apr 2025Sat 26 Apr 2025 at 5:00am Download the ABC listen app for free music podcasts and playlists With the absolute predominance of Germany in musical creation, Leipzig has taken the place of Paris, London, and Vienna as the center of the sheet music trade since the early years of the nineteenth century. The year 1840 was key in Robert Schumann's contribution to the lied genre. Along with him, notable production around that year and in the same genre came from his wife Clara Wieck, Robert Schubert, and Felix Mendelssohn.  This concert cycle proposes a journey through the sounds of some of the cities that played an important role in the evolution of music.  CLOSED: 25 and 31 DEC, 1 and 6 JAN, 17 and 18 APR. AUGUST. SaveSave this storySave1/15Native SharePhotographed by Norman Parkinson, wearing Givenchy at the Villa Rolli, Cecchina near Rome during the filming of War and Peace, June 1955. 2/15Native SharePhotographed by Richard Avedon, New York, 18 December 1953. 3/15Native ShareSlippers, donated by a private collector, that Hepbrun wore on the West End stage in the late Forties. 4/15Native SharePhotographed by Robert Wolders during a Unicef mission to Sudan, 1989. 5/15Native SharePortraits from Breakfast at Tiffany's, in role as Holly Golightly, photographed by Howell Conant in his New York studio, 1960. 6/15Native ShareAudrey Hepburn being directed on the set of Roman Holiday alongside co-star Gregory Peck, in 1952. 7/15Native SharePhotographed by Cecil Beaton, wearing an ensemble of his creation, as she filmed My Fair Lady in 1963. 8/15Native SharePhotographed by Cecil Beaton on the set of My Fair Lady with her dog, Assam. ITALY: Daikin Applied Europe claims to be using up to 400,000kg/yr of reclaimed R134a at its heat pump and chiller plant in Cecchina near Rome.  The company announced it was joining Daikin’s Loop circular economy programme at the end of last year The scheme was first launched by Daikin Europe in 2019 with the use of R410A at its VRV air conditioning factory in Ostend the reclaimed gas being recovered and reprocessed in line with the international standard AHRI700 to better than 99.5% purity The programme ensures the continued availability of R134a avoids its environmentally and financially costly end-of-life destruction and is not included in the European F-gas quota system.  “The company is now using reclaimed gas in seven different models across its heat pump and chiller ranges which will make a substantial difference to our environmental footprint and that of our customers,” said Daikin Applied UK product development manager James Henley The scheme covers the EWAD-TZ inverter screw air cooled cooling-only chillers EWAD-T- screw fixed speed air cooled cooling-only chillers EWYD-4Z B multipurpose inverter screw units EWYD-BZ inverter screw air source heat pumps EWWD-VZ water cooled inverter screw chillers EWWD-DZ oil free centrifugal chillers and DWSC/DWDC oil-based centrifugal units.  but what no work of art could afford to be was unfunny but it's quite astonishing how few comic operas have ever succeeded in actually being funny the comic operas that have lasted are the ones that have not tried to be funny at all is found on a battlefield by the soldiers of a regiment She grows up to follow the regiment as a vivandière A man called Toni saves her life; she falls in love with him and saves him from being shot as a spy in return she has vowed only to marry a member of the regiment; he obligingly enlists an old marchioness turns up and claims Marie as her niece with the help of letters saved by a trusty sergeant and Marie is carried off to live in a castle but it's fair to say that it doesn't get any more entertaining in the second the constant saving of each other from frightful danger "Comic opera" here means not a lot more than that the opera ends happily the heroine bounds about the stage irrepressibly and - a most peculiar qualification for the description in 19th-century France - the opera contains spoken dialogue with its spoken dialogue but tragic ending Comic opera was invented in Italy in the 17th century a counterpart to the better-established and more weighty opera seria which was based on mythological or classical subjects were not necessarily about serious moral issues and could even be in a dialect of Italian - often in the early years in Neapolitan operas began to be written on texts by the Venetian dramatist Carlo Goldoni - for instance Piccini's La Cecchina of 1760 called "the first true Italian comic opera" Goldoni now seems a monument of the unfunny though the 18th century liked him a good deal based as it was on that only inadvertently risible book seems unlikely to increase his reputation for hilarity Goldoni and Piccini are now dead museum pieces but the great comic operas that followed them certainly aren't Mozart's opere buffe are probably the greatest of the genre Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro is still quite an amusing play but there's very little in the opera to make anyone laugh The music seems to penetrate too deeply into human emotions to let us laugh at the characters' predicaments - the Countess's heart-rending "Dove sono" would be a blot on a really tightly constructed farce The Count's humiliation and forgiveness seem to take us almost into 19th-century realms of redemption Some people have found The Marriage of Figaro distinctly tiresome because of that; "Is that the one with the pin?" the Queen is supposed to have said when the Royal Opera asked her to pay a visit during Jubilee year the same is true of Mozart's other comic operas Whatever Cosi fan Tutte seemed at the time it now seems quite extraordinarily harrowing An opera may be described as comic if it has a happy ending but it never seems to matter much what the ending of Cosi actually is we are firmly into the realm of the unfunny There is one passage in the second act of Wagner's Siegfried at which devoted Wagnerians make a point of laughing; more casual visitors often find themselves giggling more when Siegfried takes off Brunnhilde's breastplate and declares Against a background in which something as vast and grand as The Mastersingers of Nuremberg can be described as a comic opera a couple of attempts were made to write genuinely funny operas such as Orpheus in the Underworld or The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein now have a somewhat determined air and always seem period pieces on stage today Chabrier's wonderful Le Roi Malgré Lui somehow stops being funny because of the sheer beauty of its music is only half funny; Gilbert's words are definitely funny the texts for the songs are almost always much more amusing read than performed - I've never heard anyone laugh at the terrific joke in the closing chorus of Iolanthe Probably most musical comic effects are variations on the sorts of incongruity Haydn long ago exploited - explosions in quiet passages contrasts between very high and very low register if well handled - I think the only instrumental work that ever made me burst out laughing in a concert is the finale of Shostakovich's first piano concerto with its ridiculous pratfalls and deliberately idiotic tunes bursting out into Mrs Mills-type polkas for no good reason But those incongruities have long become the stock-in-trade of the avant-garde A listener who finds the extreme juxtapositions as comic in the Turangalila symphony or in Birtwistle as he would in Haydn hasn't mastered the idiom as in the very amusing setting of the mechanicals' play in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream the delightfully absurd duet between the English teapot and the China cup in Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges written in the near-monoglot Ravel's own idea of English ("I box you I marmalade you.") The number of composers who have "ironically" quoted the first bars of Tristan and Isolde for parodic purposes is a great deal larger than the number who have made a successful joke of it The general failure of comic operas to make us laugh and the way we fall back on describing them A really good farce has a lot in common with an opera ensembles and firmly timed entrances and exits - I've often thought that a smart composer would do very well setting an episode of Fawlty Towers to music very little makes us laugh at all - there are not many 17th-century Italian plays likely to strike us as irresistibly comic today most composers have been writing in a language not conventionally suited to a comic style Schoenberg wrote a one-act atonal comic opera just to show it could be done; along with the comic operas of Richard Strauss it must be one of the least amusing operas ever written If Berg's Lulu contains some deathlessly hilarious sequences you couldn't think of it as a comedy overall Even the quite good comic operas fall into the category of "not quite as good as they think they are" Poulenc's highly promising Les Mamelles de Tirésias Shostakovich's The Nose and Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges are all much better in synopsis than on stage at least two completely successful comic operas and they're being put on in the spring by the Royal Opera House in a double bill Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole is what one always hoped for a most beautifully constructed farce set to music about a series of lovers being carried into a wife's bedroom in a grandfather clock Puccini always had a certain lightness of touch but it only ever came out in full in the one-act Gianni Schicchi about a crooked servant defrauding his repulsive employers but given the temptation to write something beautiful or touching rather than comic A really funny opera is a great work of art too; and there are few enough in the repertoire instead of the forced and polite chortle as Siegfried so amusingly tootles on his panpipes surprised roar of laughter from the stalls and l'Heure Espagnole/Gianni Schicchi opens on March 30 The International School of Medicine (ISM) of Zhejiang University (ZJU) of Chinarecently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sri Lankanand Australianpartners on educational and cultural exchange CAMG Lanka (Private) Limited in Sri Lanka and its subsidiary CEC China Education Consultants in Australia entered into the MoU with ZJU-ISM The MoU was signed remotely in Colombo [...] The MoU was signed remotely in Colombo (Sri Lanka) Canberra(Australia) and Yiwu(China) represented by Ms Chen Xing Director of International Affairsof ZJU ISM,Ms Country Director and Chairman of CAMG Lankaand Mr Director CEC China Education Consultants in Australia is locatedin the eastern coastal city of Hangzhou As one of the earliest institutionsof higher learning in China ZJU is now a leadingresearch university under the direct administration of China’s Ministry of Education Reputed as the ‘OrientalCambridge’ throughout history ZJU was always ranked among the top universities in China considering its academic excellence in teaching With a long-standing commitment to research and innovation ZJU is keen to further collaborations with global partners to expand its services Zhejiang University International School of Medicine (ISM) is located in Yiwu city which is famous for the largest wholesale market of consumer goods The first stage (376,666 sq.m.) of the new campus is scheduled to open in September 2023 ZJU-ISM will accommodate 1,500 students in various disciplines in 2024 With the combined support of the University and Yiwu government ZJU-ISM will better serve the national ‘Double First-class’ initiative and deliver the top-quality care the region needs and transform health professional education in an interconnected world The MoU will enable Sri Lankan students as well as Sri Lankan expatriate students in Australia to enrol at Zhejiang University International School of Medicine for higher studies medicine CAMG Lanka and CEC Australia are planning to obtain scholarships for outstanding Sri Lankan students from ZJU ZJU-ISM offers a six – year MBBS degree programme in English medium Students will have the opportunity to work and study as an intern doctor in their last year at the University Teaching Hospital (The Fourth Affiliated Hospital (ZJU4H) There are a number of Sri Lankan students currently studying MBBS in Zhejiang University ZJU is one of the only two Chinese universities recognized by the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) for the MBBS qualification many leading foreign medical councils and boards including in the U.K Canada and the U.S.A have recognised the ZJU MBBS qualification As China is now open for travel and long stay after three years of COVID isolation this will be a great opportunity for Sri Lankan students to realise their dream of being qualified in the medical profession from one of the world’s high-ranking universities HitAd.lk is the best and biggest mobile phone market in Sri Lanka, and we guarantee you will find what you need here from our extensive listing of mobile phones for sale in Sri Lanka Whether it’s a budget-priced smartphone for communication or higher end features with advanced connectivity there are many different options from which to choose from on our site Print Edition – The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka