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59-504: Originally called the Grammy Award for Best New Age Recording , the honor was first presented to Swiss musician Andreas Vollenweider at the 29th Grammy Awards in 1987 for his album Down to the Moon . Two compilation albums featuring Windham Hill Records artists were nominated that same year. The record label was founded by William Ackerman , later an award nominee and 2005 winner for

118-500: A bachelor's degree from the University of Paris in 1449 and a master's degree in 1452. Between this year and 1455, nothing is known of his activities. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) says "Attempts have been made, in the usual fashion of conjectural biography, to fill up the gap with what a young graduate of Bohemian tendencies would, could, or might have done, but they are mainly futile." On 5 June 1455,

177-674: A Dutch Edison Award in the Instrumental category for Caverna Magica . In 1984, the album White Winds entered the American billboard chart. Released through CBS Masterworks in North America, his records remained on catalogue, clocking up to six-figure sales. Vollenweider embarked on his first American tour in November of that year, making his debut at the Beacon Theatre , New York. It

236-570: A Grammy Award for the soundtrack album of the current DVD release The Magical Journeys of Andreas Vollenweider . Concerts in Europe and the United States followed, as did, in September of that year, the release of the two-CD double album Andreas Vollenweider & Friends - 25 Years Live , which covered the period from 1982 to 2007. In 2008, during his composition of the music for, and his recording of,

295-520: A beneficial effect of music on the preterm brain". His style has been described as weaving "elements of European classical and folk music, Third World vocal and percussive effects and natural sound effects into cyclical suites". Vollenweider is perceived as one of the pioneers of the New Age genre, although his earlier recordings appeared on the Billboard jazz chart. The composer found that "what I am doing

354-818: A benefit show for Chernobyl's children on Moscow's Red Square . The same year, he won the World Music Award in Monaco. In 1993-94, he produced his first album including vocals. The 1993–94 album Eolian Minstrel featured contributions from American singers Carly Simon and Eliza Gilkyson . The release was followed by worldwide tours. In 1994, he performed at the Pavarotti and Friends event in Modena , Italy, where he played duets with operatic lyric tenor Luciano Pavarotti (a native of Modena) and Canadian rock balladeer Bryan Adams . After conducting tours and open-air shows in Europe and

413-534: A campaign by ROKPA, a charity he has been working with for decades. Children who had once lived on the streets in Kathmandu, Nepal, visit eight Swiss cities to tell their moving stories using theatre, dance and music, with a changing roster of Swiss musical guests and an equally celebrated line-up of TV moderators. For a scientific study conducted between 2013 and 2016 by researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and

472-448: A cold, dank cell; or in a fight in some dark street with another French coquillard ; or perhaps, as he always feared, on a gallows in a little town in France. We will probably never know. Le Petit Testament , also known as Le Lais , was written in late 1456. The work is an ironic, comic poem that serves as Villon's will , listing bequests to his friends and acquaintances. In 1461, at

531-993: A daughter, Noëmi. In 1975, Vollenweider discovered the harp and, finding its traditional versions too limited for his own musical ideas, developed his own style, tailoring the instrument according to his needs. He created the electro-acoustic harp. He formed the trio Poesie und Musik together with Rene Bardet (bass) and Orlando Valentini (guitar), recording interpretations of the poetry of François Villon and Heinrich Heine , but left in 1978. During this period, Vollenweider also wrote music for film, mainly nature documentaries. In 1979, he released his solo debut, Eine Art Suite in XIII Teilen in Switzerland. He subsequently began forming his ensemble "Andreas Vollenweider and Friends", which included Walter Keiser (drums), Pedro Haldemann (percussion), Bobby Reveron (percussion), and Jon Otis (percussion). This five-piece debuted on July 11, 1981, at

590-436: A few minor poems make extensive use of Parisian thieves' slang. Still Villon's verse is mostly about his own life, a record of poverty, trouble, and trial which was certainly shared by his poems' intended audience. Villon's poems are sprinkled with mysteries and hidden jokes. They are peppered with the slang of the time and the underworld subculture in which Villon moved. His works are also replete with private jokes and full of

649-469: A member of his ensemble and another in 1995 for Prayer for the Wild Things as a solo artist. Irish musician Enya has received four awards. Kitarō holds the record for the most nominations, with sixteen (with only one win, in 2001). All five volumes of Kitarō's Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai series were nominated for Best New Age Album. Pianist Peter Kater held the record for most nominations without

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708-641: A translation in 1924. Another translation is one by Anthony Bonner, published in 1960. One drawback common to these English older translations is that they are all based on old editions of Villon's texts: that is, the French text that they translate (the Longnon-Foulet edition of 1932) is a text established by scholars some 80 years ago. A translation by the American poet Galway Kinnell (1965) contains most of Villon's works but lacks six shorter poems of disputed provenance. Peter Dale's verse translation (1974) follows

767-501: A very early time, but many scholars now believe them to be the work of other poets imitating Villon. Villon was a great innovator in terms of the themes of poetry and, through these themes, a great renovator of the forms. He understood perfectly the medieval courtly ideal, but he often chose to write against the grain, reversing the values and celebrating the lowlifes destined for the gallows, falling happily into parody or lewd jokes, and constantly innovating in his diction and vocabulary;

826-491: A win, with 12, until he finally won his first Grammy (for Dancing on Water ) in 2018 . He also holds the record from the most consecutive nominations, with 11, having been nominated every year between 2007 and 2018. Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai is the only artist to be nominated for more than one work within the same year—for the 42nd Grammy Awards he was nominated alongside Paul Horn for Inside Monument Valley and for his own album Inner Voices . Each year

885-448: Is interesting to compare his version with Mr. Lepper's: both maintain a scholarly fidelity to the original, but one notes with a certain degree of surprise the extraordinary difference which they yet show." George Heyer was a fluent and idiomatic French speaker and the French and English are printed on opposite pages. The book also contains a number of historical and literary notes. John Heron Lepper  [ Wikidata ] published

944-471: Is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year. Andreas Vollenweider Andreas Vollenweider (born 4 October 1953) is a Swiss harpist . He is generally categorised as a new-age musician and uses a modified electroacoustic harp of his own design. He has worked with Bobby McFerrin , Carly Simon , Luciano Pavarotti and in 1987 received a Grammy Award for the album Down to

1003-584: Is really a very old thing, a very 'old age' thing, because I'm doing what people have been doing for thousands of years". In the 1980s, Vollenweider was described as someone whose "politics run to the left, including support for Amnesty International and Greenpeace ". He is an outspoken pacifist and follower of the principles of non-violent conflict management of Mahatma Gandhi . Fran%C3%A7ois Villon François Villon ( Modern French : [fʁɑ̃swa vijɔ̃] ; Middle French : [frãːˈswɛ viˈlõː] ; c.  1431 – after 1463)

1062-688: Is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages . He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems. Villon was born in Paris in 1431. One source gives the date as 19 April, 1432 [ O.S. April 1, 1431]. Villon's real name may have been François de Montcorbier or François des Loges : both of these names appear in official documents drawn up in Villon's lifetime. In his own work, however, Villon

1121-433: Is the only name the poet used, and he mentions it frequently in his work. His two collections of poems, especially " Le Testament " (also known as "Le grand testament"), have traditionally been read as if they were autobiographical. Other details of his life are known from court or other civil documents. From what the sources tell us, it appears that Villon was born in poverty and raised by a foster father, but that his mother

1180-463: The See of Orléans . Villon may have been released as part of a general jail-delivery at the accession of King Louis XI and became a free man again on 2 October 1461. In 1461, he wrote his most famous work, Le Testament (or Le Grand Testament, as it is also known). In the autumn of 1462, he was once more living in the cloisters of Saint-Benoît. In November 1462, Villon was imprisoned for theft. He

1239-505: The White Winds album with his five-piece band. The shows were described as a new age experience that combined the use of lights and dry ice while Vollenweider appeared as a "white-clad figure who's poised to drive the audience wild with a harp". In 1987, Down To The Moon , which had been originally recorded and released in 1984, received a Grammy Award . This was followed by tours in Canada,

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1298-501: The "Dancing With The Lion Orchestra" concert on the shore of Lake Zurich; it featured a gathering of Vollenweider's musical friends from all corners of the world. In 2011, three decades after his first concert, he accepted the invitation of Montreux Jazz Festival founder Claude Nobs to perform an exclusive jubilee concert, on 7 July, at the 45th such Festival, titled "30 Years Andreas Vollenweider & Friends". It featured special guests Richard Bona and Raul Midon . In 2012, he played at

1357-612: The "symphonic novel" Tales of Kira Kutan , which premiered at the Warsaw Film Music Festival 2001, with the orchestra Sinfonia Varsowia ( Yehudi Menuhin ), conducted by co-orchestrator André Bellmont . Returning to his native Switzerland, Vollenweider premiered Carte blanche at the AVO Festival in Basel, where his guests, in addition to a mini orchestra, included Abdullah Ibrahim and David Lindley . In 2002, he performed at

1416-473: The 74-year-old Armenian duduk legend Djivan Gasparyan , Galician bag-pipe and whistle virtuoso Carlos Núñez Muñoz , the American singer-songwriter Carly Simon, and American blues-trombone master Ray Anderson , from all over the globe to create "world music". Throughout 2000, he traveled with the COSMOPOLY project in Europe. Its changing configuration of musicians — almost daily — enabled Vollenweider to follow

1475-781: The Budapest Spring Festival in Hungary. Performances of the symphonies Tales of Kira Kutan and Wolkenstein at the Festival "Live at Sunset" in Zürich, with Sinfonia Varsovia, followed, as did a European summer tour, with the newly formed AVAF-mini orchestra, that included a performance at the "Big Chill Festival" in England and continued that fall. It was around this time that he collaborated with German film composer Hans Zimmer , in Los Angeles, on

1534-706: The Montreux Jazz Festival. Vollenweider was discovered by the German record-producer and manager Vera Brandes, who oversaw the release of Behind the Gardens - Behind the Wall - Under the Tree... . through her VeraBra Records. The album was distributed through CBS Records International and reached 32 in the German album charts in March 1982. The follow-up Caverna Magica was recorded in

1593-487: The Moon . Vollenweider's style has been described by The New York Times as "swirling atmospheric music, which evokes nature, magic and fairy tales". Vollenweider was born on 4 October 1953 in Zürich , Switzerland, and is the son of Hans Vollenweider (1918–1993), an organist and composer, while his mother was a painter. In 1971, he married Beata, a kindergarten teacher, with whom he has two sons (Jonathan and Sebastian) and

1652-511: The United States, in 1995 he played in Latin America for the first time. 1995–97 saw Vollenweider playing a series of shows in remarkable locations: a tour of Polish castles, a show with Italian singer/songwriter Zucchero at the 2500 m high location (at -8°C) of Brunico in the Southern Alps, and in a giant volcanic cave at Lanzarote 's Festival Musica Visual. In 1998, Vollenweider began

1711-425: The United States, thirteen European countries, Japan, and Australia. When he composed the music of, and recorded, the dynamic album Dancing With The Lion in 1988 and 1989, Vollenweider opened his project, for the first time in his career, to numerous guests from a wide range of musical genres. He directed and produced two award-winning videos, one of which was for the title selection; for both videos, he contributed to

1770-510: The University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) in Switzerland, Vollenweider wrote music that was specifically designed to improve the neural development of premature babies. The composer wrote three sound environments of eight minutes each, with punji, harp and bells pieces. The neural networks of premature babies who heard Vollenweider's music were significantly improved, becoming more similar to those of full-term newborns, "providing evidence for

1829-480: The age of thirty, Villon composed the longer work which came to be known as Le grand testament (1461–1462). This has generally been judged Villon's greatest work, and there is evidence in the work itself that Villon felt the same. Besides Le Lais and Le grand testament , Villon's surviving works include multiple poems. Sixteen of these shorter poems vary from the serious to the light-hearted. An additional eleven poems in thieves' jargon were attributed to Villon from

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1888-496: The album Returning . From 1988 to 1991 the category was known as Best New Age Performance . from 1992 to 2023, the award was presented as Best New Age Album . Beginning in 2001, award recipients included the producers , engineers , and/or mixers associated with the nominated work in addition to the recording artists. From 2023, the category has been known as Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album . While "new-age" music can be difficult to define, journalist Steven Rea described

1947-646: The album A I R , Vollenweider was a guest performer at the celebration concert for the 80th birthday of Armenian duduk legend Jivan Gasparyan . In 2010, Vollenweider gave concerts in Eastern and Western Europe. In June, he undertook a special concert project, which he titled The Watercourse Way, at the Shanghai Centre in Shanghai, China, as part of Expo 2010 . A "Dream Concert" of the extended AVAF followed in August, as did

2006-457: The award category reflected a "coming of age" of the music genre, though some musicians classified as new age dislike the term "new age" and some of its negative connotations. As of 2015, Paul Winter holds the record for the most wins in this category, having won six times (four times as the leader of the group Paul Winter Consort ). Winter is the only musician to win the award consecutively; he received an award in 1994 for Spanish Angel as

2065-509: The chapel of the Collège de Navarre was broken open and five hundred gold crowns stolen. Villon was involved in the robbery. Many scholars believe that he fled from Paris soon afterward and that this is when he composed what is now known as the Le Petit Testament ("The Smaller Testament") or Le Lais ("Legacy" or "Bequests"). The robbery was not discovered until March of the next year, and it

2124-608: The far past, mid-past, and modern time. Rossetti used "The Ballad of Dead Ladies"; "To Death, of his Lady"; and "His Mother's Service to Our Lady". W.E. Henley , while editing Slang and its analogues translated two ballades into English criminal slang as "Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves" and "Villon’s Good-Night". American poet Richard Wilbur , whose translations from French poetry and plays were widely acclaimed, also translated many of Villon's most famous ballades in Collected Poems: 1943–2004 . The phrase "Where are

2183-691: The farewell concert for Claude Nobs, who had died in January of that year. In the same year Vollenweider was granted the Swiss Music Award for "Outstanding Achievement Award" for his continuing life's work. On Christmas Eve, Swiss Television broadcasts the first major documentary devoted to Vollenweider, in which filmmaker Cristina Karrer shows impressing and touching sequences recorded in October 2010 in South Africa. In May 2012 Andreas Vollenweider lends his name to

2242-405: The first blood, not only received a dagger-thrust in return, but a blow from a stone, which struck him down. He died of his wounds. Villon fled, and was sentenced to banishment – a sentence which was remitted in January 1456 by a pardon from King Charles VII after he received the second of two petitions which made the claim that Sermaise had forgiven Villon before he died. Two different versions of

2301-460: The first major recorded incident of his life occurred. While in the Rue Saint-Jacques in the company of a priest named Giles and a girl named Isabeau, he met a Breton named Jean le Hardi, a Master of Arts, who was also with a priest, Philippe Chermoye (or Sermoise or Sermaise). A scuffle broke out and daggers were drawn. Sermaise, who is accused of having threatened and attacked Villon and drawn

2360-456: The formal pardon exist; in one, the culprit is identified as "François des Loges, autrement dit Villon" ("François des Loges, otherwise called Villon"), in the other as "François de Montcorbier." He is also said to have named himself to the barber-surgeon who dressed his wounds as "Michel Mouton." The documents of this affair at least confirm the date of his birth, by presenting him as twenty-six years old or thereabouts. Around Christmas 1456,

2419-460: The genre as "music that is acoustic, electronic, jazzy, folky and incorporates classical and pop elements, Eastern and Latin influences, exotic instrumentation and environmental sound effects." According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards , the award is presented for instrumental or vocal new-age albums "containing at least 51% playing time of newly recorded material", with seasonal recordings not being eligible. The addition of

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2478-703: The music score for the movie Tears of the Sun (starring Bruce Willis and Monica Bellucci ). In 2003, he continued his work with Zimmer. A performance followed, with his mini orchestra, in Johannesburg and at the "North Sea Festival" in Cape Town . In 2004 and 2005, AVAF continued to increase touring activities in Europe. At this time, Vollenweider's entire catalogue was re-mastered and re-released on new record labels worldwide (USA/Canada: www.kinkoumusic.com; international: www.edel.com). A compilation, The Best of "Magic Harp ,

2537-465: The names of real people – rich men, royal officials, lawyers, prostitutes, and policemen – from medieval Paris. George Heyer (1869–1925; father of novelist Georgette Heyer ) published a translation in 1924. Oxford University Press brought out The Retrospect of Francois Villon: being a Rendering into English Verse of huitains I TO XLI. Of Le Testament and of the three Ballades to which they lead, transl. George Heyer (London, 1924). On 25 December 1924 it

2596-583: The open concept of the album. In New York City, he and his friends played two concerts for the United States release. Carly Simon joined the group, as did Mindy Jostyn , Carlos Núñez , Djivan Gasparyan, XiaoJing Wang and Walter Keiser . Concerts in Brazil — with Milton Nascimento and composer/pianist Wagner Tiso — followed. In 2001, Vollenweider performed in Bali (Indonesia) at the international conference "song of convergence" with Balinese musicians. He began writing

2655-453: The period May–November 1982 while Vollenweider and his band performed around Europe. Released in January 1983, the album managed to reach 11 in the German album chart. In 1983, he underlined his commitment to environmental issues with the EP "Pace Verde" in support for Greenpeace , which was accompanied by a video that Vollenweider directed and produced himself. In October of that year he was awarded

2714-754: The poet's rhyme scheme. Barbara Sargent-Baur's complete works translation (1994) includes 11 poems long attributed to Villon but possibly the work of a medieval imitator. A new English translation by David Georgi came out in 2013. The book also includes Villon's French, printed across from the English. Notes in the back provide a wealth of information about the poems and about medieval Paris. "More than any translation, Georgi's emphasizes Villon's famous gallows humor...his word play, jokes, and puns". Translations of three Villon poems were made in 1867 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti . These three poems were "central texts" to Rossetti's 1870 book of Poems , which explored themes from

2773-450: The recording of Kryptos, a work for symphonic orchestras and guest virtuosos from all over the world. He initiated a symphonic live project which he called Wolkenstein . In 1999, he returned to free improvisation and intimate musical dialogues with his album COSMOPOLY He invited friends, including American vocal acrobat Bobby McFerrin , Brazilian cult poet and singer Milton Nascimento , South-African ethno-jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim ,

2832-596: The same poem, which he titled "Ballade of the Ladies of Time Past", in his Collected Poems: 1943–2004 . In his translation, the refrain is rendered as: "But where shall last year's snow be found?" Villon's poems enjoyed substantial popularity in the decades after they were written. In 1489, a printed volume of his poems was published by Pierre Levet . This edition was almost immediately followed by several others. In 1533, poet and humanist scholar Clément Marot published an important edition, in which he recognized Villon as one of

2891-409: The sentence was commuted to banishment by the parlement on 5 January 1463. Villon's fate after January 1463 is unknown. Rabelais retells two stories about him which are usually dismissed as without any basis in fact. Anthony Bonner speculated that the poet, as he left Paris, was "broken in health and spirit." Bonner writes further: He might have died on a mat of straw in some cheap tavern, or in

2950-473: The snows of yester-year ?" is one of the most famous lines of translated poetry in the English-speaking world. It is the refrain in "The Ballad of Dead Ladies", Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's translation of Villon's 1461 " Ballade des dames du temps jadis ". In the original the line is: "Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?" ["But where are the snows of yesteryear?"]. Richard Wilbur published his translation of

3009-403: The storyline, the choreography, and set/costume designs. Vollenweider's double album The Trilogy (1990), consisted of a selection of the first three albums ( Behind The Gardens , Caverna Magica , and White Winds ) and previously unreleased material. In 1991, he followed up with Book of Roses , which included symphonic orchestral elements for the first time. In 1992, he participated in

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3068-523: The summer of that year, he recorded a new album, titled Midnight Clear , in which he again collaborated with Carly Simon. (See above for his previous collaborations with her.) The last three months of 2006 saw Vollenweider touring in Europe, in addition to his release of Midnight Clear on a worldwide basis and that of the DVD The Magical Journeys of Andreas Vollenweider in the rest of the world. 2007 saw Vollenweider draw his third nomination for

3127-513: Was a wanderer. He may have been, as his friends Regnier de Montigny and Colin des Cayeux were, a member of a wandering gang of thieves. The next date for which there are recorded whereabouts for Villon is the summer of 1461; Villon wrote that he spent that summer in the bishop's prison at Meung-sur-Loire . His crime is not known, but in Le Testament ("The Testament") dated that year he inveighs bitterly against Bishop Thibault d'Aussigny, who held

3186-485: Was not until May that the police came on the track of a gang of student-robbers, owing to the indiscretion of one of them, Guy Tabarie. A year more passed, when Tabarie, after being arrested, turned king's evidence and accused the absent Villon of being the ringleader, and of having gone to Angers , partly at least, to arrange similar burglaries there. Villon, for either this or another crime, was sentenced to banishment; he did not attempt to return to Paris. For four years, he

3245-590: Was presented by Carly Simon who had come across his music a year earlier. She explained that "I knew I had discovered something that was going to change me in a wonderful way, I became so obsessed with his music that anyone who came to my house was introduced to it within the first 10 or 15 minutes". Through CBS she got in contact with the artist and arranged for his American debut. As his instrumental tracks were generally deemed unsuitable for radio, he largely relied on word-of-mouth in gathering an international following. Vollenweider spent much of 1985 on tour, promoting

3304-686: Was released in the United States and Canada, and The Storyteller was released in Europe. A four-hour DVD was also produced. He played for the Dalai Lama, when the latter paid a visit in Zürich. In 2005, he released the album VOX . In the first three months of 2006, following extensive touring in Europe, Vollenweider conducted his first tour of the US in over ten years, touring from coast to coast. At that time, he also released his first DVD, The Magical Journeys of Andreas Vollenweider , which contained almost four hours of live concerts, documentaries, interviews. During

3363-488: Was reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement , p. 886 and the review began "It is a little unfortunate that this translation of Villon should appear only a few months after the excellent rendering made by Mr. J. Heron Lepper. Mr. Heyer's work is very nearly as good, however: he makes happy use of quaint words and archaic idioms, and preserves with admirable skill the lyrical vigour of Villon's huitains. It

3422-447: Was still living when her son was thirty years old. The surname "Villon," the poet tells us, is the name he adopted from his foster father, Guillaume de Villon, chaplain in the collegiate church of Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné and a professor of canon law , who took Villon into his house. François describes Guillaume de Villon as "more than a father to me". Villon became a student in arts, perhaps at about twelve years of age. He received

3481-537: Was taken to the Grand Châtelet fortress that stood at what is now Place du Châtelet in Paris. In default of evidence, the old charge of burgling the College of Navarre was revived. No royal pardon arrived to counter the demand for restitution, but bail was accepted and Villon was released. However, he fell promptly into a street quarrel. He was arrested, tortured and condemned to be hanged ( "pendu et étranglé" ), although

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