Tag: The Netherlands
'Climate Protesters Who Targetted Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ Win Appeal Against Jail Sentence
-
'Sir Anthony Hopkins Goes Emotional as He Finally Hears His Waltz 50 Years After it was Written Thanks to André Rieu
Sir Anthony Hopkins gets visibly emotional as he hears his waltz composition for the first time, which he had written 50 years prior, performed by André Rieu and his orchestra. -
'Amsterdam Police & Neighbor Mistake Opera Singing for Screaming
Most people can tell the different between music and other kinds of noise, but some genres may be tougher to distinguish than most. In an extreme case of this, a concerned man in Amsterdam thought his neighbor, who was singing along to some opera on his headphones, was a man screaming in agony. From afar, listening to the singing man without the context of the music must have been a terrifying and intense experience -- intense enough, in fact, to call the Amsterdam police. And while music is probably best enjoyed with some level of intensity, the incident finely illustrates how things can quickly go from invigorating to threatening.
