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...“Fall of the Weimar Republic” is Carnegie Hall’s in-season festival this year, running from January 20 to the end of May....
...Leith, whose 2022 opera Last Days was based on Gus Van Sant’s fictionalised account of the final days of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, has lately been working with some even chunkier crayons than usual....
...Then there’s Baumgartner’s wife’s name, “Anna Blume” — a Kurt Schwitters poem. “Blume” is also German for flower, a motif in the only poem of Anna’s we see....
...There will be excerpts from Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera Suite” and classically hedonistic music by some of the era’s forgotten artists....
...Did Kurt Cobain ever see his life in operatic terms?...
...Jazz, represented by the technically astute Kurt Elling and Ian Shaw, was in the mix; so too were soul, blues and lovers’ rock....
...Here is the National Security Council’s Kurt Campbell calling for “escape velocity” in a US-India relationship that he hopes Modi’s visit will consecrate....
...His third finance minister of the year, Kurt Burneo, was among those who quit on Wednesday....
...In central Lima, a few blocks from the town hall where Castillo was initially held, hundreds of supporters gathered at the Plaza de San Martín....
...There is so much Weill we ought to hear more often. ★★★★☆ At a time when concert halls are finding it difficult to get back their audiences, it was good to see a well-filled Royal Festival Hall to greet...
...Kurt Campbell, the White House Indo-Pacific co-ordinator, and Laura Rosenberger, the top National Security Council China official, held a meeting on Taiwan with UK representatives in early March, according...
...revival of Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway show — another introspective journey, this one based around his 2016 autobiography Born to Run.Grohl’s tales of living on corn dogs and sleeping on a sofa beside Kurt...
...Biden made the comments during a wide-ranging CNN town hall event on Thursday evening....
...He has spent a lifetime exploring and melding influences as disparate as Duke Ellington and Kurt Weill, Hollywood and Rossini, all with a fearless disregard for convention and boundaries....
...Moscow’s massive military build-up on Ukraine’s eastern border and in occupied Crimea last month, followed by a partial troop withdrawal, was “from the Kremlin’s perspective a clear success”, Kurt Volker...
...Step by step, the reopening of concert halls and opera houses in the UK is edging closer....
...The orchestral playing was high quality, as evident online as it would be live in the hall....
...Grohl formed the band after Nirvana came to a violent end with Kurt Cobain’s suicide....
...Our Europe editor Ben Hall says the EU is being unfairly pilloried for its vaccine policy....
...I am eyeing up an elegant rosewood desk designed by Kurt Ostervig for Jason, Denmark — yours for £7,250....
...Kurt Volker, former US special envoy for Ukraine The former ambassador to Nato was at the centre of negotiations between Kiev and Moscow to end a five-year proxy separatist war in Ukraine’s far eastern...
...It is one of the only lasting indications that along these halls lumbered one of the most tenacious and intrepid diplomats of this or any other generation....
...Kurt Tong, the former US consul general in Hong Kong was asked to tone down critical comments in a leaving speech on July 2 on direct orders of the state department....
...This is thought to be because Shakespeare had links to the Stanley family, better known as the Earls of Derby, whose ancestral home is Knowsley Hall....
...the Scottish band Frightened Rabbit’s “Swim Until You Can’t See Land”, Scott Hutchison, killed himself in May, a death that resonated in Scotland’s close-knit music community like that of Ian Curtis or Kurt...
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