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Crossover is nothing new. The Viennese violinist Fritz Kreisler recorded Irving Berlin tunes in 1927, around the same time that a Tin Pan Alley refugee named George Gershwin sent wigs flying with such concert scores as An American in Paris. What has changed is that today's listeners, raised in an era of shrinking arts education, are showing less interest in the classical standards. Meanwhile, younger classical performers, themselves suckled on pop, want to play it, not only to make big bucks but also because they like it. When Jean-Yves Thibaudet, famous for his interpretations of Ravel and Rachmaninoff...
...writers, musicians and directors, from Bertolt Brecht to Arnold Schoenberg, Ernst Lubitsch and Thomas Mann, who gravitated to Los Angeles, worked fitfully but sometimes successfully for the movies and for a while between the Anschluss and the McCarthy years made that palmy city into an extension of the Berlin, the Vienna they had lost. "It is wonderful here on the Pacific, and life is a thousand times better here than in New York," wrote the great director Max Reinhardt to his son. "But I grew up on the fourth balcony of the Burgtheater...
...BERLIN: The World Health Organization announced the number of tuberculosis cases worldwide has leveled off for the first time in decades thanks to a new treatment plan which trains health care workers to make sure patients take their medicine. But the organization warned the skyrocketing number of TB cases in former Soviet bloc countries could afflict Western Europe and possibly the rest of the world if the plan is not vigorously applied there. The treatment strategy, known as DOTS -- Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course -- simply instructs medical workers, teachers and others to observe TB patients more closely in order...
This tradition continued last night in Emerson Hall, when the Friends of the Spartacus Youth Club invited Doris Kohn, a German socialist, to discuss her experiences fighting a neo-Nazi protest in Berlin...
...February 15th, neo-Nazis marched through Berlin to support restrictions on immigration. A counter-demonstration was organized to protest and a street battle erupted...