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Christine Milne: 20 people, 20 questions
Katharine Murphy (source 
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The leader of the Australian Greens answers 20 questions on a range of subjects including policy, environment and culture. Chrstine Milne answers questions for the Guardian on (clockwise from top) Carry On films, water skiing, classical music and the Galapagos Islands. Photograph: Rex features/Don Mcphee/Murdo Macleod/Corbis/Other 1. Peter Doherty, Nobel laureate, immunologist What will you do to stop the concreting-over of productive agricultural land? Christine … Continue reading
Istanbul’s orchestra teams up with Buika
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İş Sanat is closing its 13th season with Buika, an artist known for her passionate voice of love, as well as the Istanbul Opera Orchestra. İş Sanat closesseason with Buika and Istanbul Opera Orchestra on May 24. The concert is expected to be one of the best performances of the season. Buika, who has captivated audiences and critics alike around the world with her love … Continue reading
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Why Your Brain Craves Music
Michael D. Lemonick (source )
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If making music isn’t the most ancient of human activities, it’s got to be pretty close. Melody and rhythm can trigger feelings from sadness to serenity to joy to awe; they can bring memories from childhood vividly back to life. Comments The taste of a tiny cake may have inspired Marcel Proust to pen the seven-volume novel Remembrance of Things Past, but fire up the … Continue reading
Cyprus crisis: Thousands at benefit concert for poor
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Thousands of people have attended a charity concert in the Cypriot capital Nicosia, in aid of those hardest hit by the financial crisis. Some concert-goers compared the mood to that during the 1974 Turkish invasion About 50 Greek and Cypriot artists performed in the afternoon and evening in the Concert of Solidarity and Help. There was no admission fee, but concert goers were asked to … Continue reading
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Dr Sarmast’s Music School
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The recent screening of ‘Between the devil and the deep blue sea’ in Fremantle was the ice breaker between me and a teacher at a local public school here in Western Australia. This sincere documentary is raising awareness about the asylum seekers who are living ‘on hold’ in Indonesia, waiting for their transport into Australia. The film is doing a tour around 30 major cities … Continue reading
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To Hector The Hero
George Galiatsos (source )
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Has it been that long Hec? …..A year to the day? Most of us have tried to come to terms with your absence and got on with our lives. Isn’t that what you would have wanted us to do? An open letter What else could we have done? However, it’s not that easy….your name, your image, has been popping up in our thoughts, minds and … Continue reading
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Van Cliburn dies at 78; pianist who gave U.S. a Cold War victory
Dennis McLellan (source )
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Van Cliburn, a young Texan, won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 and was given a hero’s welcome back in the United States. He went on to a long and acclaimed career. Pianist Van Cliburn performs in Moscow at a concert dedicated to the memory of the victims of a terrorist attack on a school in Beslan, Russia.(Sergey Ponomarev / Associated Press … Continue reading
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David Bowie: The Next Day – review
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David Bowie’s eagerly awaited new album is thought-provoking, strange and filled with great songs. David Bowie’s The Next Day ‘offers what you might call an index of Bowiean obsessions‘. Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex Features comments When David Bowie chose to break a decade’s silence by releasing a single, Where Are We Now?, on his 66th birthday, dissenting voices were hard to find amid the clamour made by … Continue reading
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Getting to Carnegie Hall From Kabul Takes More Than Practice
ALISSA J. RUBIN and DANIEL J. WAKIN (source )
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Every night Mohsen, a slight, awkward 13-year-old boy, goes home from school to an orphanage here and does something that would probably have been impossible a dozen years ago: he practices his violin before going to bed. Fakriya, 15, and members of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music orchestra practiced in their facilities in Kabul before their tour of the United States. … Continue reading
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