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Swiss women win bronze in curling championship

This content was published on Mar 30, 2008 The team beat Japan 9-7. Team captain Mirjam Ott has two Olympic medals under her belt (2002 and 2006), but she floundered at two previous worlds, finishing eighth in 1997 and 2005. “It’s my first world medal, so it feels great,” said Ott from CC Davos, who was supported by Carmen Schäfer, Valeria Spälty and…

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Public backs boycott of opening ceremony

This content was published on Mar 30, 2008 However the survey, carried out for the SonntagsBlick, Le Matin Dimanche and Il Caffè, found that two-thirds of the public wanted Swiss athletes to participate in the Games. The recent violence in Tibet has brought China’s policies to the fore in the final months before the games. The flame-lighting ceremony for the Beijing Olympic Games…

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Sacred relic still shrouded in mystery

This content was published on Mar 29, 2008 Internationally renowned Swiss textile conservator Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, who was interviewed for the film, always doubted the results the carbon-14 dating tests carried out on the shroud in 1988. At that time three leading laboratories – in Oxford, Zurich and Arizona – concluded that the shroud must have been made between 1260 and 1390. New evidence…

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Aid official urges greater solidarity

This content was published on Mar 28, 2008 Walter Fust, speaking at this year’s annual SDC conference in Zurich, also told swissinfo about Switzerland’s disaster relief achievements and the challenges for the future. The 63-year-old ambassador, who steps down from the SDC at the end of April, will take up his position as CEO of the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum in May. “Humanitarian…

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The Swiss Jazz Scene – Leading Soloists (MH 59/1977)

This content was published on Mar 28, 2008 Featured artists among others are Flavio and Franco Ambrosetti, Miriam and Oskar Klein, Irene Schweizer, Hans Kennel and Andy Scherrer. Musical content 1. Ambrosetti Quintet: Baby Jane(F. Ambrosetti)2. Miriam Klein Trio: Big Stuff(L. Bernstein / I. Eckinger)3. Irene Schweizer: Willem’s Fun Fest(I. Schweizer)4. Magog: Der Bachstelzer(K. König) Production information Musica Helvetica MH 59. The Swiss…

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Swiss Folk Instruments – Wind Instruments (II): The Alphorn (MH 58/1978)

This content was published on Mar 28, 2008 We trace its development from the original concept of the curved primitive animal horn and the straight metal horn of Roman origin. Here the alphorn is featured not only in folk music but also in contemporary classical music and even present-day pop. Musical content 1. Helmihorn – Animal hornCentral SwitzerlandTraditional summons to the Landsgemeinde of…

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Swiss Folk Instruments – Wind Instruments (I) (MH 57/1978)

This content was published on Mar 28, 2008 It was one of the simplest and most primitive ways of making music. But there are folk musicians in Switzerland still practising this art today. This edition traces the role of wind instruments of all forms in Swiss folk music. From the most elementary of instruments, an ivy leaf, to virtuoso woodwinds in conventional country…

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Swiss Folk Music – Historic Folk Songs (MH 56/1976)

This content was published on Mar 28, 2008 In this programme folk singer and balladeer Hans Peter Treichler introduces some of Switzerland’s most famous historic songs, a number of which have even become part of the European folk song heritage. Musical content 1. Hans Peter Treichler: Stets in Trure mues i läbe – Always In Sorrow Must I Live(Trad., arr. H.P. Treichler)Hans Peter…

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Swiss Folk Instruments – Stringed Instruments (Zither and Hackbrett) (MH 55/1976)

This content was published on Mar 28, 2008 The hackbrett was mentioned officially for the first time in a Zurich document dating from the mid-15th century. Both instruments exist in different regional varieties, and their making and playing are skills which have been handed down from generation to generation. Musical content 1. Paul Moser: ‘s Munotglöggli – Little Bell Of The Munot Castle(F.…

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