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Gott auf Kanal 1: Zum 80. Geburtstag Karlheinz Stockhausens auf WDR 3

Man kann dem Westdeutschen Rundfunk vorwerfen, dass sich der hauseigene Klassiksender WDR 3 in letzter Zeit immer weiter zu einer Art klassischer Kaffeeklatschrunde entwickelt hat. (Wie die FAZ gestern berichtete wird sich daran wohl auch in Zukunft nichts ändern). Heute jedoch versucht das Sendehaus an alte, glorreichere Zeiten anzuknüpfen und bringt zum 80. Geburtstag Karlheinz [...]

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• Check out NetNewMusic, a portal for contemporary music where you can listen to new compositions, read news about all the fresh music that is out there, and discuss with fellow new music enthusiasts. #
• Say "hello" to Kulturblogger, an interesting new blog that I just discovered. #
• I can only support Michael Arrington's ideas over at TechCrunch. Yes, an easy-to-use-larger-than-stamp-size-internet-tablet is what we all want. And while we're at it: what about a same-size, touch screen eReader that let's you annotate texts and comes with a zotero-like software to organize your bibliography? #
• Going through my old post for tagging purposes I once again realized that the Berlin Konzerthaus is the most fabulous music institution in the German Capital. Best programming. Period. Someone should really give them a medal. Here are my Konzerthaus-related articles. #
• On Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in New York: "The Adagio of the Ninth was a classic Berliner tour-de-force: the extreme polish of the playing in every section created a fabulous mirage of music as three-dimensional space." -- Alex Ross, New Yorker, December 3, 2007, p. 107 #