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...“For [then chief executive Jack] Dorsey and Twitter, it was an embarrassing and costly introduction to dealing with Trump,” writes Bloomberg journalist Kurt Wagner in his new book Battle for the Bird....
...Russia’s state-owned news agency Ria said the newly arrived soldiers belonged to Africa Corps, a semi-official arm of the defence ministry that subsumed the private military company Wagner Group after the...
...Kurt Wagner, chief financial officer of Illuminate USA, said the tax credits were “an important financial component” for the project....
...Kurt Wagner, Illuminate USA’s chief financial officer, told the Financial Times that the partnership with Longi gives the US the opportunity to “really catch up on the technology”....
...The normal structure of verses and choruses that tell us where we are in a song is replaced by a looser, more improvisatory setting through which Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner picks his way carefully in a low-voiced...
...The longstanding Kurt Masur had earlier cherished its long tradition of cultured, Germanic warmth. To these, Nelsons has added his own penchant for grandeur of utterance....
...In further reading this week, I enjoyed Kurt Wagner's analysis, for Recode, of what has happened at Twitter since founder Jack Dorsey returned to run the social media group in 2015....
...“I wanted to make a record my wife would like,” Kurt Wagner says of his band Lambchop’s latest album FLOTUS (For Love Often Turns Us Still). Mrs Wagner can take pride in the uxorious gift....
...Lambchop FLOTUS (City Slang) “Shake the cobwebs free,” Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner sings in a curious voice — one fed through pitch-correcting software in the newfangled style of the modern electronic crooner...
...Kurt Wagner, Recode: Hey Mark....
...“I think it will come out sounding very much like [Kurt] Weill,” he says....
...#TwitterStopAnnouncingStuffSoEarly— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) October 14, 2015 This time, Twitter announced a new chairman, as Dorsey had previously been executive chairman before being appointed chief...
...renewing art means that “he’s Kurt Cobain, he’s James Dean”....
...The Devil’s Detective, by Simon Kurt Unsworth, Del Rey, RRP£12.99 A police procedural set in Hell, this fiendishly good debut marks Unsworth out as a talent to watch....
...Her vocal contributions, impeccably gauged, embraced songs by Grieg, Sibelius, Wagner, Berlioz, Schubert and Richard Strauss, not to mention the jolt of Kurt Weill’s Saga of Jenny....
...That is, of course, an illusion, as music is always political – just look at Wagner and Verdi....
...Dan Wagner, chief executive of Powa Technologies, said: “If I trusted and valued my employees so little that I wanted to take away their employment rights, why would I wish to give them shares in my business...
...Friendship is its theme too: that between Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner and singer-songwriter Vic Chestnutt, who died from a suspected suicide in 2009....
...The most animated of them was the band’s leader, Kurt Wagner, who sat at one end of the semi-circle, sideways to the audience, one leg tapping up and down, rocking towards the microphone when songs built...
...Kurt Lauk, chairman of the CDU business council, has long condemned her refusal to spell out her policies (and passions) more clearly, especially on her crisis-management of the eurozone....
...Kort Invariable Heartache (City Slang) Kort are Lambchop’s sleepy voiced leader Kurt Wagner and fellow Nashville resident, singer-songwriter Cortney Tidwell....
...Elsewhere, though, Jurowski uncovered Mendelssohn’s early Romantic provenance, with echoes of Weber in the first movement and a surprising foretaste of Wagner in the chorales....
...The marvellous singers, seconded by gutsy actors and a virtuosic chorus, include Peter Mattei as the murderous Shiskov, Stefan Margita as the crafty Luka, Kurt Streit as the love-crazed Skuratov, Willard...
...It will be the first time Paris Opera has performed Wagner’s epic cycle since 1957. Das Rheingold runs until March 28....
...The Overture to Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg closed the evening in proper celebratory style, and never mind that the huge brass department came awry in the final seconds....
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