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TOP 3 - Our Cultural Highlights of the Week
TOP 1:PIERRE BOULEZ, Berlin Music Festival
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Music with an edge to it: Pierre Boulez is one of the great composers and conductors of our time. This year, the Berlin Music Festival is honouring the French master. This major orchestral festival links earlier works with modern ones – like those of Boulez, who’s been composing contemporary classical music since the 1940s and is considered a leading exponent of the avant-garde. The maestro, who turned 85 this year, will be conducting as well. So in addition to works by Bartok, Berio and Brahms, there'll be plenty of Boulez at this year's Berlin Music Festival.
TOP 2:FRANKA POTENTE, A New Book
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Our number two is a book of ten stories about people in Japan by actress Franka Potente. She first gained international recognition playing the title role in the film Run Lola Run. Now she’s writing – about Japan, a country she can’t get enough of. In her stories, she tracks down people who withdraw into themselves– for instance, a young woman dreaming in a nightclub of finding the love of her life. Stories about conventions, encounters and the yearning for happiness. Franka Potente’s book "Zehn" or “TEN” presents ten titbits to whet Europeans' appetites for Japan, so familiar to them in some ways and so new in others.
TOP 3: WIR SIND HELDEN, A New Album
The German pop band Wir sind Helden is back. After a three-year break, they’ve released their best album yet, and it’s our number three this week. Appropriately, its title, Bring mich nach Hause, means Bring Me Home. The four band members have matured and they’re asking questions about the meaning of life. When they first broke onto the scene ten years ago they were seen as pioneers of German new wave music. Back then, they were rebelling against commercialism. In contrast, the new album is an introspective journey – profound and melancholy
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