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Ricky Ian Gordon has written a cycle of songs about flowers. In this episode, we hear one of them. Rachmaninoff wrote a song called “Lilacs.” We hear that, too. Bach opens his Goldberg Variations with ...
The three-week Van Cliburn Competition reached its climax Saturday night with Aristo Sham of China winning the Gold Medal.
One of the highest visibility classical music contests in the world, the Cliburn has been held quadrennially in Fort Worth ...
Thomas Bach — the most powerful man in global sports — returned to Guam Thursday for a second visit before his final term as president of the International Olympic Committee comes to an end.
The little Nova Scotia lighthouse now sits in Ghersini's B.C. office. She said it's nice to know that she's brightened so many people's day by posting about it on Facebook. "It's the first thing I ...
Daniel Dennett has decided that the mind is less like a computer than he had previously imagined. Instead, the Darwinian philosopher suspects that the brain may be even more Darwinian than he had ...
30,197 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?30,197 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?
She explained: “I had a major stroke, maybe three years ago. I had to fight my way back. “It’s been hard, I’m not going to pretend otherwise. But it’s given me a hunger to keep going.” ...
Paramount Group, a major New York City and San Francisco office landlord, is exploring strategic alternatives for its business, which could entail an outright sale of the company. The company ...
A rare and hotly anticipated conversation between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin aimed at ending the war in Ukraine yielded no major ... there was little to indicate ...
An artist's impression of the revamped plans for a major redevelopment of the jam factory precinct in Prahran. Mr Gurner said the goal was to “take an Australian icon and recreate it into a new ...