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UN rights group to send mission to Middle East

This content was published on Apr 5, 2002 The draft resolution, proposed by Islamic states, was debated at a special meeting of the current UN Human Rights Commission session, called in response to the deteriorating situation in the West Bank. Virtually all the autonomous Palestinian towns in the region have been reoccupied as a result of an Israeli military offensive, launched in response…

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Rigamonti grabs bronze

This content was published on Apr 5, 2002 Rigamonti completed the 800m course in 8’23”38, over six seconds off the Swiss record she set in December, when she won the European championships in Anvers. Thursday’s win brought the Ticino swimmer her ninth major medal. The Chinese swimmer, Chen Hua, took gold, finishing in 8’16”34, ahead of the Russian, Irina Oufmitseva. It was an…

Curlers gunning for success

This content was published on Apr 5, 2002 In the men’s competition hopes will be resting on the Lausanne-Olympique team, led by the 1998 Olympic champion, Patrick Hürlimann. The 39-year-old, who made his world championship debut in 1986, will be making his fifth and final appearance when he lines up with his squad in Bismarck, North Dakota, on Saturday. Hürlimann narrowly missed out…

The Swiss National Anthem

This content was published on Apr 5, 2002 The story of the Swiss National Anthem It was the summer of 1841. Alberik Zwyssig (1808-1854), a priest and composer from Uri, was visiting his brother at St.Carl, a magnificent patrician’s house at the gates of Zug, when he received mail from Leonhard Widmer. Widmer (1809-1867), a music publisher, journalist and songwriter from Zurich, entrusted…

Pop & Rock in Switzerland – From the Beginnings until 1985 (5)

This content was published on Apr 5, 2002 Pop music for Switzerland Pop music is an all-encompassing term for popular music and includes rock’n’roll, folk songs and Alp reggae. But pop can also stand for the classic song style built around a catchy melody. The most popular of these songs made it into the hit parade which has “officially” existed in Switzerland since…

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Pop & Rock in Switzerland – From the Beginnings until 1985 (4)

This content was published on Apr 5, 2002 A refreshing breeze Rock music in Switzerland slumped into a crisis during the mid-seventies. The charts were dominated by frivolous pop songs while “serious” rock musicians reveled in a bombastic, ostentatious style that won the interest of a few. A refreshing breeze began to blow in from England and the United States in 1976: pub…

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American billionaire bankrolls Geneva-Servette promotion

This content was published on Apr 5, 2002 Geneva-Servette may be a tiny outpost in the Anschutz entertainment empire, but it looks likely to upset the established order at the top of Swiss ice hockey. After winning 4-0 against Chur on Thursday evening, the National League B champions became the first side ever in the history of Swiss ice hockey to go through…

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Pop & Rock in Switzerland – From the Beginnings until 1985 (3)

This content was published on Apr 5, 2002 Roots Swiss pop music was strictly Anglo-American in style at the beginning. Anything cultural that was connected to the Swiss (German)dialects – folk music, for example – was considered conservative and old-fashioned.Nevertheless, a few beat bands began to mix modern rhythms with native folk songs already during the sixties. However, the young pop musicians left…

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Pop & Rock in Switzerland – From the Beginnings until 1985 (2)

This content was published on Apr 5, 2002 Musical identity By the end of the sixties many young Swiss rock musicians were trying to find their personal musical identity and to establish their music as an independent art form. The “super group” Krokodil was tinkering on a unique, consciously noncommercial sound, a mixture of Alp groove, LSD hallucinations, folk and blues. They were…

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Pop & Rock in Switzerland – From the Beginnings until 1985 (1)

This content was published on Apr 5, 2002 Les Sauterelles – The Swiss Beatles “We are trying to copy the originals as closely as possible”, said Toni Vescoli in an interview in 1967. The leader of Les Sauterelles thus described in a nutshell the Swiss sound of the sixties. Individuality wasn’t called for during the beginnings of Swiss rock. You took the Anglo-American…

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