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...Interested by the documentary-style images, he set out to photograph people as they learnt to swim in the waters of San Francisco’s Jewish Community Center, Richmond Plunge and the Recreation Center for...
...It is not in the same league as, say, Gustav Klimt’s 1907 “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I”, known as “The Woman in Gold”, which was eventually returned to the sitter’s heirs in 2006 and later sold at Christie...
...Drappier Brut Nature sans soufre, £40.50 for 75cl; thechampagnecompany.com. Candles, from £1; flyingtiger.com....
...Audiences in the six cities on this month’s San Francisco Symphony Asian tour schedule will find a world of music awaiting them....
...Where the Boston accent had been strong and clear, everything that San Francisco did spoke in a well blended, thoughtful tone....
...Now in its 38th year, San Francisco-based Chanticleer stands as a rebuke to blinkered musical prophets....
...The San Francisco Symphony concluded the first season of its innovative, club crowd-directed concert series last weekend with an engrossing survey of the composing generation that will inherit the serious...
...Every sophisticated, self-respecting musical community needs a chamber orchestra of distinction, and after two decades, San Francisco’s Bay Area can claim the New Century Chamber Orchestra as one of its...
...InterDigital, the San Diego-based intellectual property group, and Qualcomm, the US mobile chip company, have also complained....
...His opera Poliuto, based on Corneille’s tragedy Polyeucte, about the martyrdom of an early Christian saint, was pulled weeks before its production at the Teatro San Carlo....
...That much was underlined by the San Francisco Symphony’s weekend concerts in the Shell Classic International series....
...Marc Quinn’s mauve, supersized, inflatable Alison Lapper, a disabled pregnant woman rendered as a party balloon, is a tasteless eyesore dominating the façade of San Giorgio Maggiore....
...When the psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung visited Taos, New Mexico, in the 1920s, he met and conversed with an elder from the Hopi tribe named Mountain Lake....
...Whenever Michael Tilson Thomas takes the San Francisco Symphony on tour, audiences can expect a guided expedition through the conductor’s current preoccupations....
...San FranciscoWerther From Wednesday, San Francisco Opera performs Jules Massenet’s opera based on Goethe’s novel....
...Gustav Mahler 27. The tweeting celebrities are: i) (c) Britney Spears; ii) (a) Ashton Kutcher; iii) (b) Oprah Winfrey 28....
...Key pieces include “Woman Crouching with Green Scarf”, “Houses with Laundry” and “Reclining Nude”; they hang alongside works by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl and Kolo Moser....
...This time, the San Francisco Symphony’s indefatigable maestro has conjoined the spirits of Schubert and Berg in a valiant attempt to trace, in the space of a fortnight, the history of Viennese Romanticism...
...Not the San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas....
...On a limited budget, several students created a prototype design for Gustav Stickley-inspired chairs and convinced a local furniture manufacturer to mill the parts....
...In any case, piano and orchestra (here sans violins) tended to occupy separate musical spheres while the music unfolded in a single, continuous span embracing a multitude of arrestingly crafted, highly concentrated...
...Bush flew to Texas to follow the federal response to the storm from emergency centres in Austin and San Antonio, having cancelled plans to speak to the Republican convention last night in St Paul, Minnesota...
...Mr Bush plans to oversee the federal response to the crisis from response centres in Austin and San Antonio, Texas today....
...But the San Francisco Symphony followed through with its planned performance of the Sixth, or “Tragic”, Symphony of Gustav Mahler....
...Steht die Sonne, which was co-commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, is divided into three untitled movements of decreasing length....
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