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...But Wagner’s music just cruised along. The big climactic outbursts leapt out, of course, but again without special urgency....
...Mercenaries from Russian paramilitary group Wagner are deployed in Mali, and last year Moscow reopened its embassy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital, after a three-decade absence....
...He had studied in Vienna under Otto Wagner and made the transition from Secession to Modernism via a Japanese-inflected artsy-craftsiness. But there is nothing twee or nostalgic here....
...in a military coup last September, told state broadcaster Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTB) that Russia was a supplier of equipment for Ouagadougou’s military and that the countries enjoyed a “frank...
...Nuland said her conversations with the junta representatives to press for a negotiated solution to the crisis “were extremely frank and at times quite difficult”....
...The conversation, Nuland said, was “extremely frank and at times quite difficult”....
...Rana playing Rachmaninov plus ballet accompaniment, Martha Argerich appearing alongside longtime collaborator Mischa Maisky — but they’re offset by quirkier offerings from Laurie Anderson, a tribute to Frank...
...Until February 15; further information and tickets here February Art ‘Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads’, The Courtauld The first ever ensemble of the huge charcoal portraits that Auerbach produced...
...“Exactly as in Wagner’s operas, it has to end for him, the hero, as tragically as possible,” Dalí’ wrote in 1944. “I think Putin’s the same,” Sorokin says....
...Frank Lucas, a Republican lawmaker from Oklahoma, said: “I’m nervous. How much longer can we sustain numbers like this before you become nervous?”...
...Karlheinz Stockhausen looked back to the “forward-looking” Richard Wagner for his own crackpot, week-long opera cycle Licht....
...The second world war is over, but men in uniform can still be seen, and we overhear the lyrics to “I Wish I Didn’t Love You So”, written by Frank Loesser and released in 1947....
...It is a vast tome on the multi-dimensional effect of Wagner’s music on the world....
...Otto Wagner’s incredible chapel for the Hospital am Steinhof just outside the city, meanwhile, managed to combine obsessive, minimalist hygiene with a fantastical domed and subtly-decorated building....
...Perhaps the number one spot is where the country that gave us Bach, Beethoven and Wagner is always expected to be....
...But even since his opera took hold, various other composers have been inspired to create contrasting works, including Swiss composer Frank Martin in 1941....
...Architect Frank Gehry donated his services to design its chamber music hall, which is named after the late composer/conductor Pierre Boulez and opens next weekend....
...The third part of the trilogy, inspired by Wagner’s Ring, was never completed....
...Barenboim, with some 250 musicians at his disposal, shows us how much Elgar owes to Wagner and German romanticism, without ever losing the composer’s own ethereal clarity....
...Dan Wagner’s Powa Technologies was thought to be one before its collapse in February this year....
...Who Knight Frank, knightfrank.co.uk, tel: +44 20 7629 8171...
...Not least because of her frank descriptions of sex, her books are some of the most often challenged in an America where free speech is theoretically guaranteed....
...Newly installed as music director at the Bayreuth festival, Thielemann sets out his thoughts on Wagner the man and the artist....
...The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think, by Julian Baggini, Granta, RRP£14.99, 320 pages Surely it’s not quite healthy, surely it’s not quite right, this obsession we have with – let’s be frank –...
...For these and a thousand other petty provocations, the Bayreuth audience rewarded stage director Frank Castorf with more than 15 minutes of solid booing when he appeared for his curtain call after Götterdämmerung...
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