Trading Places Trading Places Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. It tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker and a homeless street hustler whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet. Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis also star. The storyline is often called a modern take on Mark Twain's classic 19th-century novel "The Prince and the Pauper". The film was written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod and was produced by Aaron Russo. It was released to
The Wind in High Places The Wind in High Places The Wind in High Places is a composition for string quartet by the American composer John Luther Adams. "The Wind in High Places" has a duration of roughly 16 minutes and is composed in three movements: The composition was developed from the 2007 piece "Three High Places" for solo violin, which Adams composed in memory of his friend and collaborator Gordon Wright. The piece uses only natural harmonics and open strings. "The Wind in High Places" has been praised by music critics. Pwyll ap Siôn of "Gramophone" wrote: The piece was also lauded by John