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Barenboim is currently music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Staatskapelle. His musical career includes performances with all of the world’s major orchestras, hundreds of recordings, and dozens of international awards...
Barenboim still makes frequent appearances with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic and has authored a book titled “A Life in Music.” He has received numerous awards, including a Grammy in 2003, and most recently, the Wolf Prize for the Arts for his efforts to unite Palestinians and Israelis...
Roland Emmerich had to brace himself. The German director of such U.S. blockbusters as Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow was leaving behind the warm breezes of Hollywood to plunge into wintry Berlin, because he heads the judging panel at this year's Berlin Film Festival, which starts this week. That a Hollywood player like Emmerich was chosen for the job hints at the profound changes that have swept the German movie industry. Though his country's art house élite despises his commercial movies, he can expect a warm welcome this year from a film community that...
STONECIPHER: I like the list of airlines that have given us deposits on the airplanes. [Not all have been publicly announced.] But established U.S. airlines don't have the money right now. Outside of Asia, the big airplane orders recently have been from airlines like Air Berlin. Those aren't established airlines. Those are start-ups. But that is the way the industry is going...
Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher spent last Christmas at his St. Petersburg, Fla., home. He wasn't happy about that. Angered because key airlines like AirAsia and Air Berlin were buying rival Airbus planes, all too aware that the European manufacturer would soon be rolling out its new 555-seat, double-decker A380 jumbo liner, Stonecipher had told his salespeople he would travel anywhere in the world, even on Christmas Day, if he was needed to close a deal. Yet no one called. "The whole idea is that I will go anywhere for them," he says...