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...greatest assets. But even by its galactic standards, Verbier's lineup for its 10th anniversary is extraordinary. There will be no fewer than 45 stars on show, including top conductors James Levine (who heads the festival's resident youth orchestra) and Esa-Pekka Salonen, gypsy fiddler Roby Lakatos, consummate pianist Emanuel Ax and legendary soprano Elisabeth Söderström. Music lovers who have gathered in the village can't believe their luck. "It's so exciting to see all these stars here," enthuses 20-year-old New Zealander Paul Rah, as he waits patiently in line for tickets...
...supporters recruited the likes of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to take up his cause. The ministry wisely decided last week he could stay put. Guilhaumon and Marciac will celebrate his reprieve in style. This year's festival (Aug. 1-15) has some of the biggest names in jazz, starting with pianist Oscar Peterson, one of the last of the great generation of classic jazz artists, as well as Marsalis, Pat Metheny and Diana Krall, the Canadian singer-pianist who is jazz's hottest property right now. With a lineup like that, it's no wonder the Marciac festival generates...
...music is strong." In search of more than a niche market, some organizers have broadened out their offerings. "Jazz festivals these days aren't as much about jazz as they are about quality music," says Fritz Thom, whose Vienna Jazz Festival (June 23-July 13) first took root when pianist Keith Jarrett played the Staatsoper in 1991. "We're an urban festival, and we need a broad spectrum, from mainstream to avant garde," says Thom, whose offerings this year include pianist Chick Corea and New Orleans legend Dr. John...
...Radiohead did. For a concentrated dose of music, nothing quite matches the North Sea Jazz Festival (July 11-13), which packs around 250 acts into one weekend in The Hague. "You make your own festival," says director Theo van den Hoek. Visitors can go pure with Chicago's spectacular pianist-singer Patricia Barber and trumpeter Dave Douglas, or leaven tradition with deep house, like Norwegian Bugge Wesseltoft, or with klezmer, like John Zorn's Electric Masada. If that's all too demanding, no problem: a full weekend's schedule can be crafted with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Steve Winwood...
DIED. NATALYA RESHETOVSKAYA, 84, Russian pianist and scientist better known for her tumultuous two marriages to dissident author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; in Moscow. In a 1974 memoir of their life together, she questioned some of the descriptions of Stalin's prison camps in Solzhenitsyn's book The Gulag Archipelago, calling them "camp folklore." She split from her husband in 1970 but as recently as last year said, "I love him right up to this moment...