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YouTube's Invisible Beethovens The YouTube musicians will have their horizons widened too. They'll perform with prominent soloists, including violinist Gil Shaham. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Lang Lang will make a video appearance. The musicians will rehearse the program during a classical-music summit at Carnegie Hall from April 12 through 15. They've already had a chance to study the repertory in online master classes hosted by professionals like Maxine Kwok-Adams, a violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra, who offers bowing tips for the Tan Dun piece...
...over it all is the Danta pyramid, of greater volume than the Egyptian pyramid of Cheops and affording sweeping views of the lush green canopy. No trip to El Mirador is complete without a climb to this aerie of the gods - nor a wry contemplation from its summit of the long slog back...
...star wattage will get you only so far. In the run-up to the G-20, continental European powers such as France and Germany made it clear that they viewed with distaste the principal U.S. prescription for recovery: a massive fiscal stimulus to boost demand. Similarly, at the NATO summit to follow the G-20 meeting, Obama could expect to be met with warm words but few pledges of the troops he would like to augment U.S. forces in Afghanistan...
...Sudan A Waltz with Bashir Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir brazenly defied an international warrant for his arrest by embarking on a six-country regional tour. Several leaders expressed solidarity with al-Bashir during a March 30 Arab League summit in Qatar and accused the International Criminal Court--which on March 4 charged him with committing war crimes in Darfur--of placing a double standard on Arab countries...
...preserve the value of their holdings. Besides, replacing the dollar would demand a level of cooperation among the world's major economic powers that is difficult to achieve. Although China and Russia reiterated their calls for reform of the global currency system at last week's G-20 summit in London, the issue barely got any talk time. (See pictures of London protesting the G-20 summit...