Word: berliner
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...felt like I was playing with the Berlin Philharmonic because the orchestra was so incredible,” Koh said...
...Isang Yun concert hall where he performed is an exact replica of the Berlin Philharmonic’s concert hall. In fact, it has slightly better acoustics Koh noted...
...department store jeans. The chorus of village maidens, bodices laced up and hair braided like so many St. Pauli Girls, drink lager out of disposable frat-party cups. A rustic wooden barrel that looks like it might have been used in the original 1821 production at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, shares space on the stage with a blue plastic trash bin that looks like it might have been purchased at the Home Depot in West Roxbury, Mass. The period and setting are never clear, producing an inscrutable operatic haze that frustrates singers and spectators alike.The haze finally cleared?...
...recent weeks, as the scale of the world's crisis has shifted from worry about buying holiday toys to worry about standing in bread lines, one government after another has stepped into the markets. Attempting to right the financial ship, London, Berlin and now even Washington are buying up stakes in financial institutions. And as governments wade into private business, they have sparked media coverage, particularly among conservatives, warning of a return of Big Brother. WE'RE ALL SOCIALISTS NOW, COMRADE, Britain's Daily Telegraph declared in one headline...
Opel was one of the first Western firms to move east to Eisenach after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and it pulled an army of suppliers and service companies in its wake. On Adam Opel Street, Lear Corporation makes seats for the Corsa, while parts makers Mitec AG and Robert Bosch are across town. Uwe Laubach, head of the local chapter of the IG Metall union, says as many as 900 temporary workers in the local auto industry have lost their jobs in recent weeks. "The situation is dramatic," says Michael Lison, head of the industry association Automotive...