I'm not a basketball fan - - I'm not a fan of any sport actually, unless you see opera or dance as a sport (and maybe you should). I was surprised to hear that Kobe Bryant was an Oscar winner, for Best Animated Short. I found it on YouTube and it's so beautiful, I want to share it with you.
Of course it never hurts to have John Williams write the score!
This was another case of YouTube making a helpful suggestion on their homepage:
Composer David Del Tredici died the other day at the age of 86. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1980 for "In Memory of a Summer Day," part one of Child Alice. He wrote many pieces inspired by A
The Best Actress winner for 2000 was Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich. That performance was a beguiling mixture of diva and mensch so instead I'm going to focus on two other Best Acrtess nominees tha