Swiss Identity

President issues anti-racism appeal

This content was published on Mar 21, 2007 Calmy-Rey made her comments to mark Wednesday’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. “Let’s be honest: we cannot easily dismiss the existence of racism in our country,” this year’s president and foreign minister said in a statement. “People with a different skin colour are [sometimes] vilified and regarded as hostile,” Calmy-Rey added. “This…

Culture

Globalized

This content was published on Mar 20, 2007 Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte is well known in Switzerland and the United States. His critical, humorous cartoons are published in Swiss papers Le Temps and the NZZ am Sonntag, as well as in the International Herald Tribune. Globalized: Cartoons from The International Herald Tribune 2005-2007 is a collection of his best work published in the paper…

Shostakovich: Piano quintet. String quartet no. 12. Bruno Canino, piano. Amati Quartett Zürich.

This content was published on Mar 20, 2007

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Experimental Alphorn

This content was published on Mar 20, 2007 What has been happening in art after World War II – the breaking with traditional forms – should have paved the way for experiences in music, too. Composers started to make use of electrophonic instruments, but already in the 1980s employed them only rarely. In the meantime the folk movement, which had reached Switzerland after…

Mental health project gets green light

This content was published on Mar 19, 2007 But the Swiss Etiological Study of Adjustment and Mental Health (Sesam) will have to abandon genetic testing of the children taking part after massive opposition. Basel-based Sesam, a worldwide first, was approved as a national centre of competence in research by the government in 2005. The aim is to collect data about the participants’ mental…

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Lambiel to defend ice-skating title in Tokyo

This content was published on Mar 19, 2007 Having withdrawn from the European Championships in January citing burnout and having raised the possibility of ending his career, the top skater is back, more motivated than ever. “I want to take a step back to advance better, to bounce back better,” Lambiel said less than six weeks ago, justifying his decision to sit out…

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Edvard Munch

This content was published on Mar 19, 2007

Paiste cymbals come in for a lot of stick

This content was published on Mar 19, 2007 They are made by the Paiste company which is this year celebrating the 50th anniversary of production in the small town of Nottwil. Whether played in a rock band, jazz ensemble or a symphony orchestra, cymbals might not appear very important instruments but they have been described as the “vocals” of a drum kit. “Percussion…

Culture

“Southern Cinema” lights up Fribourg

This content was published on Mar 18, 2007 Besides a retrospective on the “New Wave” from Taiwan, the programme casts a wide eye on urban life. Thirty films are in competition. Martial Knaebel is calm. The Chadian film “Daratt” (Dry Season) has opened his final festival, which he has already proclaimed a success. Knaebel is set to step down in June on a…

Culture

Munch exhibition in Basel attracts royalty

This content was published on Mar 18, 2007 Interior Minister Pascal Couchepin was also present at the private viewing of the largest Munch exhibitions ever held outside Norway. The Beyeler Foundation devoted the first special exhibition in its jubilee year to Munch (1863-1944) and this retrospective review focuses on his significance as predecessor and founder of Expressionism. It also examines his essential contribution…

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