I'm ending our Beatles tribute (and ending the year) with a bird's eye D/M view of the Beatles. It seems to me that they generally progressed from Diva to Mensch. There was plenty of both at all times but they seem to become more menschy with time. An example:
Diva: Early - - "Do You Want To Know a Secret?"
Mensch: Late - - "Long and Winding Road"
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