Just saw recently a TV show - looking
back at TV events in 2005 - with Oliver Kalkofe. I was
sooo much laughing that I woke up my sleeping wife, He
is currently the best satirical comedian in Germany.
Check
out his website (in German).
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Want incredible pictures from diving in
the Beqa Lagoon of Fiji? Then check out
Lawaki Beach House and download 65 beautiful
pictures as a PDF file. I was only able to compile them
after
Richard Schneider sent me his lovely pictures. |
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Tune in to
Radio Swiss Jazz or
Radio Swiss Classic. Good stuff! |
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Site of
Mike
Reymond, Fiji's best rock guitarist. 4 free MP3
songs for download. Vinaka, Mike,
for that Saturday in November 2004 when we recorded the blues (or do
you still call it "making noise"?)
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Michelle Rounds, the famous singer and songwriter
born in Fiji has just released a newCD:
A Matcha Chocolate Love Adventure. In the CD
Coffee Time Jazz she also appears in duets with
Cleve Douglas.
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| Really want to go to Fiji? Then you
have to check out the
Lawaki Beach House! It's a place where you can PLAY
Robinson - excellently secluded. And a mix of Swiss and
Fijian home-made cuisine.
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| Recently heard again the 3rd piano
concerto of
Rachmaninoff, played by Vladimir Horowitz in 1978.
Some nice stuff about this version. |
| In my younger days, Wilhelm Backhaus
was my favourite 'pianoman'.
Of special interest to me was his Decca LP of 1958,
playing the C minor piano concerto of Beethoven.
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| It is said that
Arthur Rubinstein did not sign his work. In 1973 I
was lucky that, after playing both Chopin piano
concertos in the Zurich Tonhalle, he personally signed
my LPs. You were one of the greatest, maestro! |
| It would be unfair to name another
great pianist,
Dinu Lipatti. His play of the Myra Hess adaptation
of Bach's "Jesu, Joy of men's desiring" is out of this
world. |
| While in high school I had the chance
to learn organ at the Enge church in Zurich. My teacher
was Erich Vollenwyder (at the same time Hans
Vollenweider was playing at the Grossmünster). Not much
stuff about this great organist on the web. Only found
links to some of his students,
Roswitha Hächler,
Herbert Baumann,
Daniela
van Limburg Stirum,
Margrit Fluor, just to name a few.
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| Während einer Grippekrankheit habe
ich mich etwas mit Creationism, Intelligent Design und
Gegnern der Evolutionstheorie belesen. Hier ein paar
gute Links (hoffe, sie existieren noch):
Entwürfe
in Gottes Namen (Die Zeit, 19/2003)
Der
grosse Plan (SDZ, 2-3-2004)
Rezension
& Replik auf "Evolution - ein kritisches
Lehrbuch"
Rezension
"Gott würfelt nicht"
Rezension
"Propheten des Aberglaubens"
Hume,
Paley & das Design Argument
Creationist's
abstract on biology
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