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...It was based not just on values and politics, but on the crushing Allied victory that erased the Third Reich and then rebuilt two German sovereignties....
...As the senior generation of American composers such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John Adams draw their pensions, a very active wave of newcomers and middle-agers is taking their place....
...Take a break from the news American composer Steve Reich has been influencing the course of modern music for nearly six decades....
...The centrepiece was Steve Reich’s Drumming Part 1. The quartet stood with sticks before a line of bongo drums mounted on stands....
...The minimalist soundscapes of Steve Reich meet the animation of John Adams in a sound-world that is very much Wolfe’s own, a brash New York in-your-face yelp of delight, well suited to the juggernaut of...
...Traitor King by Andrew Lownie, documents Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson’s love affair with the Third Reich....
...Then Steve sent an email to the composer John Adams and said, ‘You should check out Anna’s music, she’s the real deal.’”...
...Boehm, Pushkin Press £14.99 When Otto Silbermann, a Jewish businessman, goes on the run after barely escaping the Kristallnacht pogrom he travels back and forth across Germany into the depths of the Third Reich...
...On February 15, Adams turns 75....
...Lost for decades and now republished, this is an enthralling, disturbing but also nuanced story that takes the reader into the heart of the Third Reich’s terror state....
...For over 40 years, John Luther Adams lived in the northernmost reaches of Alaska....
...and John Adams....
...It is never possible to infer much from a simple change in price — but the evidence compiled by Chodorow-Reich and his co-authors, Adam Guren and Timothy McQuade, is subtler than that....
...Switzerland’s reputation as an oasis of neutrality was destroyed by the revelations of its systematic money-laundering for the Third Reich, but Sweden has largely — and unjustly — escaped opprobrium....
...Steve Reich’s “For Bob” is a radiant outpouring of rhythm, Louis Andriessen’s “Rimsky or La Monte Young” a study of contrasts....
...Petit deftly recreates the Reich as it enters its death spiral....
...Adam LeBor is the author of ‘Kossuth Square’, a Budapest noir crime novel Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...MK Ultra, staged in outrageous technicolour, guarantees sensory overload in this kaleidoscopic exploration of contemporary iconography and conspiracy theory devised in collaboration with film-maker Adam...
...Then, faced with a comprehensive bank run on Monday 13, the Reich was forced to shut down the entire financial system and to impose exchange controls to limit the outflow of currency....
...Adam Tooze’s brilliant dissection of the Third Reich economy, The Wages of Destruction, chronicles the rise of “silent financing”, where normal Germans were encouraged to deposit as much as possible in their...
...But the Third Reich still casts a long shadow across Europe. Gunther is sent to Athens, where he is soon caught up in a dangerous web of former Nazis and the lost treasure of the Jews of Salonika....
...During the 1930s, Bardon explains, Germany’s Reich Broadcasting Company recorded hundreds of radio broadcasts on shellac disc....
...John Adams....
...In this substantial body of work, Kerr’s sardonic private eye proves a surprisingly apt navigator through the Third Reich and its aftermath....
...Any misconception that minimalist music involves a smallness of scale or ambition is scotched pretty quickly on encountering the output of John Adams, Philip Glass and Steve Reich — the three Americans who...
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