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The crisis gripping the German car industry has emerged as a new election campaign battleground, forcing Berlin to call auto bosses to an emergency summit on Wednesday to help restore confidence in the motor vehicle sector ahead of the September poll.

Une programmation populaire, de qualité et accessible au plus grand nombre. Telle est la volonté clairement affichée par la Ville de Renens qui lance sa Saison culturelle 2021-2022.

Nach der Hochwasserkatastrophe will die SPD wissen, warum Armin Laschet keinen Krisenstab eingesetzt hatte. Hierzu braucht es Daten der NRW-Umweltministerin – doch auf diese wartet die Opposition bisher vergeblich.

Vor der Küste Korsikas treibt ein riesiger Ölteppich. Vermutlich wurde ein Schiffstank illegal entleert. Jetzt ermitteln die Behörden, drei Schiffe kommen in Frage.

Learn more about American Negro Spirituals this summer posted on 11:48 AM, May 4, 2021 A Q&A with NATS Virtual Summer Workshop presenter Kenneth Overton Kenneth Overton At our Virtual Summer Workshop (July 8-10), Kenneth Overton presents “Embedded in the Soil and Sung from the SOUL: The American Negro Spiritual” that will explore the performance practices and relevance of the Spiritual in today’s world. The NATS Virtual Summer Workshop is July 8-10. See schedule and details. We’re thril...

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Brahms Listen as Carlos Santana, Branford Marsalis and others pick their favorites of the moody master of 19th-century music. Credit...Angie Wang April 7, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the music of Johannes Brahms (1833-97), master of stirring symphonic exclamations and moody piano solos. We hope you find lots here to discover and enjoy; leave your favorites in the comments. ◆ ◆ ◆ Isata Kanneh-Mason, pianist The ...

Joshua Kosman March 2, 2021Updated: March 2, 2021, 6:32 pm Composer David Del Tredici (left) with soprano Barbara Hendricks and conductor Seiji Ozawa during rehearsals for “Child Alice.” Photo: Chronicle file photo One night in 1983, I went to an orchestral concert with a couple of composer friends. The headline piece on the program was a recent work by an increasingly prominent living composer, and we didn’t care for it at all. So we responded in the way the situation seemed...

€180million facelift for WW1 bombarded French basilica The Connexion uses necessary cookies to help us provide you with a better user experience. By continuing to use this website, you accept our use of cookies. Accept €180million facelift for WW1 bombarded French basilica Notre-Dame de Brebières basilica in the Somme was hit by 2,000 bombs but its golden statue held true to prophecies not to fall until the war ended 2 March 2021 The Basilica remains an important pilgrimage site and is vis...

Ralph Moore | 10/01/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "I have never been fully convinced of the necessity of translating operas and performing them English, especially if the original is in French, which, owing to its stress patterns and vowels, is a particularly intractable and problematic language both to fit successfully to music and even more so to translate into English. I do speak French, but even if I didnt I would prefer to have a libretto to hand and hear "Oui, cest elle; cest la deesse" launc...

(5 out of 5 stars) "I was in Avery Fisher hall when this CD was recorded. I had never heard this work before, but from the first note, I was transfixed by the music. The hall could have burned to the ground around me and I would not have noticed. Apart from a short pause between the first and second movements, the piece was performed continuously. For me, it was the most intense musical experience of a lifetime. Even though I had been attending concerts for years, I had never realized that...