Conductor Kent Nagano: The surfer wields a wicked baton
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. conductor Kent Nagano feels he lives in three worlds - his native California, his ancestral Japan and the Europe of the music he conducts. But his...
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Conductor Kent Nagano: The surfer wields a wicked baton
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. conductor Kent Nagano feels he lives in three worlds - his native California, his ancestral Japan and the Europe of the music he conducts. But his...
Rolling Stones call off tour after L’Wren Scott death
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones called off their tour in Australia and New Zealand on Tuesday after lead singer Mick Jagger's girlfriend L'Wren Scott was found dead of...
Moldovan violinist Kopatchinskaja: ‘Art should be alive’
LONDON (Reuters) - Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has already applied her virtuosity to a musical depiction of the Columbia shuttle disaster, down to the sounds of the rockets blasting the...
Moldovan violinist Kopatchinskaja: ‘Art should be alive’
LONDON (Reuters) - Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has already applied her virtuosity to a musical depiction of the Columbia shuttle disaster, down to the sounds of the rockets blasting the...
Saunders wins Folio prize, sees boost for short story
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. author George Saunders, whose short stories specialize in "darkly playful" twists of fate, said after winning the inaugural Folio literary prize worth 40,000 pounds ($66,500) on...
Soprano Netrebko pulls out of ‘not right’ London ‘Faust’
LONDON (Reuters) - Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has pulled out of a mostly sold-out production in April of Gounod's opera "Faust" at the Royal Opera House in London, saying that...
Soprano Netrebko pulls out of ‘not right’ London ‘Faust’
LONDON (Reuters) - Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has pulled out of a mostly sold-out production in April of Gounod's opera "Faust" at the Royal Opera House in London, saying that...
Asian films win big as Chinese thriller takes top Berlin prize
BERLIN (Reuters) - Asian films were big winners at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday, led by gritty Chinese thriller "Bai Ri Yan Huo" (Black Coal, Thin Ice) about...
Director Loach says small jabs at society got better results
BERLIN (Reuters) - British film director Ken Loach, receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin film festival on Friday, said the more ambitious his films were in trying to...