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Its draw is also in the departures from tradition. Without them, Aix would be another Salzburg instead of the most interesting opera festival in Europe — though at this point in Pierre Audi’s tenure as artistic director, “opera” is too limiting a label, with a slate over the past week of film, music theater, concerts and, yes, opera, including two new works, each of vastly different character. Many summer festivals exist primarily for the pleasure of music-making beyond the usual concert halls and theaters. In this edition, not everything succeeded artistically (or with audiences); some of what I saw was reckless, some of it offensive. In the pit, so to speak, was the Orchestre de Paris under the baton of its music director, Klaus Mäkelä.
Persons: Pierre Audi’s, , , Klaus Mäkelä Organizations: Ballets, Vitrolles, Orchestre de Paris Locations: Aix, Salzburg, Europe
Violent protests challenge French view on race
  + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Joshua Berlinger | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
Nanterre, France CNN —What does it mean to be French? That vigorous adherence to equality often prevents the government from doing anything that would appear to categorize French citizens based on race, including collecting statistics. “We’re talking people who have been in France for 100 years or half a century, but are still considered foreigners, strangers foreign to France, even though they are French citizens,” she said. French people often use anglicisms to address issues of race rather than the French equivalent – for example, Black people are referred to as “Black” rather than “noire,” the French word for black – despite the aversion of the francophone world to the rising usage of English in French culture. Workers clear a street filled with charred cars in Nanterre, France, on Friday.
Persons: It’s, Nahel, Adama Traore, rebuts, Rokhaya Diallo, , , Daniele Obono, Mame, Fatou Niang, “ We’re, Niang, Joshua Berlinger Organizations: France CNN, Fifth, CNN, , France Unbowed, Center for Black European Studies, Atlantic, Carnegie Mellon University, Elysee, French Foreign Ministry, Workers Locations: Nanterre, France, French, Fifth Republic, Paris, Africa, Caribbean, Asia, Republic, France’s, United States, ” Suburbs
The boy, Nahel, was shot dead during a traffic stop Tuesday morning in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. The officer said he fired his gun out of fear that the boy would run someone over with the car, according to Nanterre prosecutor Pascal Prache. He is currently facing a formal investigation for voluntary homicide and has been placed in preliminary detention, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported Thursday. This screengrab from video posted on Twitter shows the moment when police interacted with a 17-year-old teen during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb. Fires were set in the Paris suburb of Montreuil early Friday morning.
Persons: France CNN —, Pascal Prache, , Mounia, Prache, BFMTV, Stephane Rouppert, Nael, Emmanuel Macron, Nahel, Laurent, Franck Lienard, , ” Lienard Organizations: France CNN, France, CNN, Twitter, Interior Ministry, BFMTV, French, country’s Foreign, RTL Locations: Nanterre, France, Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Roubaix, Marseille, Lille, Montreuil, Aubervilliers,
Protesters clash with police in Nanterre, France, on Friday, June 30. Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters A firefighter extinguishes a car that was burnt during clashes between protesters and police in Roubaix, France, on June 30. Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images People look at burning tires blocking a street in Bordeaux, France, on Thursday, June 29. There was no disruption to the Eurostar service connecting London, Lille and Paris as a result of the protests. Further afield, the US State Department issued a security alert on June 29 covering France.
Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Nahel, Pascal Prache, Prache, Gonzalo Fuentes, Pascal Rossignol, Bertrand Guay, Kenzo Tribouillard, Philippe Lopez, Firas Abdullah, Zakaria Abdelkafi, Benjamin Girette, Antoine Gyori, Stephanie Lecocq, , Gerard Darmanin, Macron, Elton John, Yves Herman, TikTok, Snapchat Organizations: CNN —, Reuters, Fort, Getty, AFP, Anadolu Agency, Police, Bloomberg, Firefighters, Overseas, Rights, Europe, Amnesty, Twitter, UN, Human Rights, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Interior Ministry, Metro, Eurostar, US State Department Locations: CNN — France, Paris, Nanterre, France, Roubaix, Lille, Aubervilliers, AFP, Bordeaux, Cayenne, French Guiana, Brussels, Clamart, Neuilly, Marne, Préfecture, Marseille, London, Britain,
Meredith Monk stepped out onto a circular stage, her stride paced yet fluid. She didn’t sing at first, but when she did, she let out a clear, clean soprano sound. This is Meredith Monk at 80 — performing in the staged premiere of her latest work, “Indra’s Net,” at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam on Friday and Saturday — though it could describe her at pretty much any moment in her career, whose trajectory resembles a constellation more than a straightforward path. The first staged performances of “Indra’s Net,” an evening-length work about interconnectedness and interdependence, were delayed by the pandemic. And this fall, the retrospective exhibition “Meredith Monk: Calling” will open at the Haus der Kunst in Munich.
Persons: Meredith Monk, doesn’t, Monk, Organizations: Holland Festival, , Kunst Locations: Amsterdam, , Munich
Mr. Modi agreed to join Mr. Biden in the East Room to meet with journalists and will also address a joint session of Congress in the afternoon. Image The scene on the South Lawn in the morning underscored the rising role of Indian Americans in the United States. Image Mr. Modi suggested the two nations could tackle international challenges in tandem. They considered it a victory that the administration had persuaded Mr. Modi, who famously refuses to hold news conferences, to meet with reporters alongside Mr. Biden, as most major world leaders do when they visit the White House. Credit... Pete Marovich for The New York TimesMr. Biden pointed to the prevalence of Indian Americans in prominent positions.
Persons: Biden, Narendra Modi, Modi, , ” Mr, , Mr, , Doug Mills, China’s, Atomics, Biden’s, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, “ Modi, Pete Marovich, Kamala Harris, Harris, Harris’s, Erin Schaff, Joshua Bell Organizations: White, , New York Times, Artemis Accords, International Space Station, General Electric, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Boeing, Biden, New York Times “ Equity, United States, , Cortez of New York, Twitter, The New York Times, Mr, The New York, Penn Masala, University of Pennsylvania, U.S . Marine Locations: India, United States, Russia, China, U.S, Moscow, Beijing, American, Ukraine, Russian, New York Times India, New Delhi, Cortez of New, portobello, Asian
Mr. Biden celebrated India’s rise with a lavish display of friendship marked by marching bands, honor guards and a 21-gun salute on the South Lawn, to be followed by an Oval Office meeting and a gala state dinner. Mr. Modi agreed to join Mr. Biden in the East Room to meet with journalists and will also address a joint session of Congress in the afternoon. Image The scene on the South Lawn in the morning underscored the rising role of Indian Americans in the United States. Image Mr. Modi suggested the two nations could tackle international challenges in tandem. Credit... Pete Marovich for The New York TimesMr. Biden pointed to the prevalence of Indian Americans in prominent positions.
Persons: Biden, Narendra Modi, Modi, , ” Mr, , Mr, , Doug Mills, China’s, Atomics, Biden’s, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, “ Modi, Pete Marovich, Kamala Harris, Harris, Harris’s, Erin Schaff, Joshua Bell Organizations: White, , New York Times, Artemis Accords, International Space Station, General Electric, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Boeing, Biden, New York Times “ Equity, United States, , Cortez of New York, Twitter, The New York Times, Mr, The New York, Penn Masala, University of Pennsylvania, U.S . Marine Locations: India, United States, Russia, China, U.S, Moscow, Beijing, American, Ukraine, Russian, New York Times India, New Delhi, Cortez of New, portobello, Asian
Modi, a strict Hindu who follows a vegetarian diet, will be served a first course that includes a grilled corn kernel salad and tangy avocado sauce, the White House said. With the slightly Indian-accented dinner, the Bidens are following a White House tradition of serving guests from abroad food that has faint echos of home with a strong American bent. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 2009 state dinner featured basmati rice, but also White House grown arugula and pumpkin pie tarts. The tables will be adorned with lotus blooms, revered in Indian design and a symbol of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party. Reporting by Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose; Editing by Heather Timmons and Sonali PaulOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Jill Biden, Narendra Modi's, Evelyn Hockstein WASHINGTON, Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, Modi, Manmohan Singh's, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Raj Subramaniam, Joshua Bell, Jeff Mason, Nandita Bose, Heather Timmons, Sonali Paul Organizations: Indian, White, REUTERS, Modi, Apple, Google, Microsoft, FedEx, Entertainment, Penn Masala, University of Pennsylvania, Bharatiya Janata Party, Thomson Locations: United States, Washington , U.S, Gujarat, portobello, American, Asian, U.S
There has been close attention to diplomatic detail in advance of Thursday’s state dinner, including catering to the guest’s dietary restrictions. Nina Curtis, a plant-based chef from Sacramento, California, will be the dinner’s guest chef, working with White House Executive Chef Cris Comerford, and White House Executive Pastry Chef Susie Morrison to develop the menu, the office of the first lady said. Modi, a White House official said, is a vegetarian and “the First Lady selected Chef Curtis for her experience with plant-based cuisine.”And Grammy Award-winning American violinist and conductor Joshua Bell will provide the evening’s entertainment, the office of the first lady said. The state dinner is one element of an elaborate visit for the prime minister, which comes amid some criticism over Modi’s human rights record. This will mark the third state dinner of the Biden administration after the Bidens hosted French President Emmanuel Macron in December and South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol in April.
Persons: Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Narendra Modi, Nina Curtis, Cris Comerford, Susie Morrison, Modi, Chef Curtis, Joshua Bell, Betty Monkman, Jake Sullivan, , Biden, Emmanuel Macron, Yoon Suk Organizations: CNN, White, State Department, South Locations: Washington, Sacramento , California, India, United States
In San Francisco, a Week of Destination Opera
  + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Joshua Barone | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Frank’s partnership with Cruz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, has been fruitful in the concert hall, but this is their first opera. Their subject is extremely familiar — the love of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera — but the treatment is less biographical and more mythic. But here, instead of the hero traveling to the underworld to retrieve a lost love, the protagonist journeys to the land of the living. In both cases, though, a creative spirit is required to cross borders, and there are dire consequences for any missteps. And rather than tell a life story — which in opera tends to result in episodic, undramatic works — Cruz hews to classical unities, with a focused plot that unfolds on the Mexican Day of the Dead.
Persons: Cruz, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera —, Eurydice, Kahlo, — Cruz hews, Diego —, Alfredo Daza, , Frida, Daniela Mack, doesn’t, Leonardo, Jake Ingbar, Yaritza Véliz, Lorena Maza, Jorge Ballina’s, Eloise Kazan’s Organizations: Azul
Paris CNN —Can humans and rats live together? Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is forming a committee to study “cohabitation” – to what extent humans and rodents can live together – one of her deputies said Thursday during a city council meeting. Boulard had called upon the city government to outline a more ambitious plan against the proliferation of rats in public spaces. The study is being financed by the French government, though the city of Paris is a partner in the project. She added that she was asking the French High Council on Public Health to weigh in on the debate.
Persons: Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, , Anne Souyris, Paris, Geoffroy Boulard, Boulard, Hidalgo, ” Boulard, Souyris, , Paris Animaux Zoopolis, Organizations: Paris CNN, Paris Mayor, Paris, Republican, Twitter, French High Council, Public Health, , CNN Locations: Paris, PAZ
And there are definitely areas where AI chatbots could be useful — especially when it comes to business. Artificial IntimacyThe shift toward AI relationships isn't just a theoretical possibility: Some entrepreneurs and companies are already working to create chatbot-driven connections. While it has garnered a lot of attention, CarynAI isn't the first attempt at providing people with companionship through an AI chatbot. Snap recently deployed its own AI chatbot, called My AI, aimed at supplementing social interactions on the app. In researching new AI chatbots, I was struck by the missed opportunity for disconnected people to forge new connections.
Persons: ChatGPT, Derek Thompson, , you've, Eric Klinenberg, Jenny Leigh, isn't, Caryn Marjorie, Marjorie, Caryn, CarynAI, Replika, Evan Spiegel, Joshua Bote, Zers, Brent Orrell, Daniel Cox Organizations: Pew Research Center, University of Pennsylvania, Software, New York, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Brown University, Hasbro, Science Foundation, Survey Center, American Enterprise Institute Locations: New York City
And there are definitely areas where AI chatbots could be useful — especially when it comes to business. Artificial IntimacyThe shift toward AI relationships isn't just a theoretical possibility: Some entrepreneurs and companies are already working to create chatbot-driven connections. While it has garnered a lot of attention, CarynAI isn't the first attempt at providing people with companionship through an AI chatbot. Snap recently deployed its own AI chatbot, called My AI, aimed at supplementing social interactions on the app. In researching new AI chatbots, I was struck by the missed opportunity for disconnected people to forge new connections.
Persons: ChatGPT, Derek Thompson, , you've, Eric Klinenberg, Jenny Leigh, isn't, Caryn Marjorie, Marjorie, Caryn, CarynAI, Replika, Evan Spiegel, Joshua Bote, Zers, Brent Orrell, Daniel Cox Organizations: Pew Research Center, University of Pennsylvania, Software, New York, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Brown University, Hasbro, Science Foundation, Survey Center, American Enterprise Institute Locations: New York City
CNN —One of the worst train accidents in India’s history is raising questions over the safety of the country’s massive and outdated rail network, as the government invests in its modernization. India’s extensive rail network, one of the largest in the world, was built more than 160 years ago under British colonial rule. Decaying infrastructure is often cited as a cause for traffic delays and numerous train accidents in India. India has seen several similar deadly incidents involving train accidents in recent decades. The same year, Modi announced huge investments in India’s railway system aimed at improving safety and connectivity.
Persons: Rafiq Maqbool, Odisha, Narendra Modi, Modi’s, Albright, Modi, ” Mamata Banerjee Organizations: CNN, AP Authorities, Howrah, National Crime Records, Group, Indian, Rail Plan, India, Bharat Locations: Odisha, Shalimar, Chennai, Yesvantpur, India, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jammu, Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh
Ms. Saariaho, who hadn’t had the desire to write an opera, changed her mind after seeing Mr. Sellars’s 1992 staging of Messiaen’s “St. That experience, Ms. Saariaho told her publisher, “opened my mind to what can be done by telling a story with music,” and led to a series of collaborations with the soprano Dawn Upshaw, one of its stars. And so Ms. Saariaho entered the 21st century with the premiere of her first opera, “L’Amour de Loin,” which was widely celebrated as a masterpiece and considerably raised her international profile. Francois d’Assise” team, including Mr. Sellars and Ms. Upshaw. Her output, Mr. Salonen said, “can be seen as a vast forest where all these plants and trees grow, and they’re in sort of a symbiotic relationship with each other.
Persons: Saariaho, hadn’t, Francois d’Assise ”, , Dawn Upshaw, Rudel’s, Amin Maalouf, Sellars, Upshaw, Anthony Tommasini, , Salonen, Mr Organizations: Salzburg Festival, The New York Times, Locations: “ St, Austria, , Finland
James, a comedian, is one of the posters behind the Instagram page Chaotic Hong Kong Expats. But the age of social media has catapulted the activity into public consciousness with a wave of begpacking-shaming Instagram accounts and Facebook pages. “Hong Kong is a very expensive place to live and the average (monthly) wage is 15,000 Hong Kong dollars ($1,915). Viral social media photos of begpackers in places like Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong have been appearing on social media in recent months, re-igniting debate over the issue. “I think it kind of represents the growing arena of location-independent tourists blurring boundaries between leisure and work,” says Bernstein.
Persons: Ashley James, , James, , ” James, Stephen Pratt, He’s, Pratt, , begpackers, Patrick Leigh Fermor, ’ ”, ” Will Hatton, “ you’ve, ” Joshua Bernstein, Bernstein, begpack, Raphael Pangalangan, Begpacking, ” Pangalangan, ” Hatton, Hatton, it’s Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Hong, Rosen, of Hospitality Management, University of Central, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Language Institute, Thamassat University, Michelin, European Union Locations: Hong Kong, Asia, Kong, Thailand, India, Indonesia, begpackers, University of Central Florida, Hong, Kowloon, Europe, begpacking, Bangkok, North America, Malaysia
A British man has been banned from teaching for numerous breaches of the Teachers’ Standards code, a Department for Education (DfE) panel report shows, contrary to claims that Joshua Sutcliffe was banned only for using the wrong pronoun when addressing a transgender male pupil. One Facebook user (here) wrote: “So a teacher has been ‘banned’ from HIS profession, simply because HE ‘misgendered’ a student (is it ok to say student?). All the maths teacher did was praise a group of pupils by saying: 'Well done girls'.”Similar posts can be seen here and here. “His conduct... demonstrated a failure to treat pupils with dignity and/or respect and/or a failure to safeguard pupils’ well-being,” the panel added. Joshua Sutcliffe was banned from teaching for numerous reasons, which included, but was not limited to, his misgendering a pupil.
Persons: Joshua Sutcliffe, , Sutcliffe, , , Mr Sutcliffe, ” Sutcliffe, Tom Allen, Joshua, Read Organizations: Department, Education, LIFE, Agency, Christian Concern, TRA, Reuters Locations: B.i, B.ii
One of the most significant developments in American classical music so far this century has been the ascendancy of the Los Angeles Philharmonic: a showcase of talent, inventive programming and strong finances that has become the envy of other orchestras. First, Gustavo Dudamel, the orchestra’s popular music director, announced that he would leave in 2026 to become the next music director of the New York Philharmonic. A few months later, Chad Smith, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s chief executive officer, who championed and drove its inventive programming, announced he was resigning to run the Boston Symphony Orchestra. When Frank Gehry, the architect who designed the Los Angeles orchestra’s futuristic steel-clad home, Walt Disney Concert Hall, first heard the news that Smith was leaving, he initially said, quite bluntly, that he was “scared” by the double hit of departures. But he then explained that he remained hopeful, given the orchestra’s track record of successful reinvention.
Persons: Gustavo Dudamel, Chad Smith, Deborah Borda, Frank Gehry, Smith, I’ve, ” Gehry, , Organizations: Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic’s, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Walt Disney Concert Hall Locations: Angeles
Now, Guggeis might read about a discovery related to something he remembers studying in school. In between classes one day, he sat in on a rehearsal of Strauss’s “Die Frau Ohne Schatten” led by Petrenko. He recalled watching the young conductor lead a rehearsal and immediately thinking he was gifted. “And he was obviously a very natural conductor. He moved his arms in a natural way, and was naturally in command.
And in “Succession,” he evokes a classical music tradition in which a composer doodles at the piano to improvise on a theme, putting it through permutations based on mood and form. This could serve as good parlor entertainment, but also the basis for inventive, kaleidoscopic works; Britell’s soundtrack, in its pairing of piano and orchestra, has an ancestor in Rachmaninoff’s concerto-like “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.” He would do well to adapt his score into a similar piece. With his theme and variations, Britell offers a parallel of the show itself: an idée fixe established at the start — a patriarch’s departure from the top of his business empire is more of a when than an if — and a circular (some would say static) plot about the ways in which three of his children maneuver to take over. It is a premise that carries on even after the father’s death early this season; the most recent episode, about his funeral, demonstrates the psychological hold Logan Roy still has over his children and how, united in grief, they nevertheless continue to scheme.
That's because the vehicle platform redesigns need to come through semiconductor innovations in processing and power-management technologies, analyst Joshua Buchalter wrote in a report on Monday. "We believe these powerful secular content themes are underappreciated amidst appropriate cyclical concerns and pushback on EV attach rate projections," he added. In fact, companies indexed to these trends can outgrow the broader market and should be on investors' radar today, Buchalter said. TD Cowen's proprietary model forecasts the total automotive semis market growing at a 9% compound annual growth rate from 2023 to 2030 — doubling to about $121 billion. The company has already amassed a $30 billion auto revenue pipeline, spread across the digital cockpit, connectivity and ADAS, he pointed out.
Persons: TD Cowen, That's, Joshua Buchalter, Buchalter, Mobileye, Matthew Ramsay, Ramsay, — CNBC's Michael Bloom Organizations: Microsystems, Mobileye's, Nvidia, Qualcomm Locations: ADAS
I would have liked to watch a few more episodes," the grandfather bot replied. Yu told Tang his grandmother needed the chatbot to process her emotions and mourn. As for himself, he declined to share his intimate conversations with his grandfather bot. Like Yu's grandfather bot, Wu's bot produced limited responses. "These emotions might have overwhelmed me too much to work and live my life," he told Tang.
Claire Chase Is Changing How People Think of the Flute
  + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Joshua Barone | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Something unusual happens when people speak about the flutist Claire Chase. They use superlatives that would seem reckless if they weren’t repeated so often. “It’s so difficult to talk about Claire,” the composer Marcos Balter said. “She’s so much more than a virtuoso flutist or a pedagogue. Earlier in May, she played Kaija Saariaho’s concerto “L’Aile du Songe” with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
Until Tuesday, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra hadn’t been to Carnegie Hall since 1968. Its chief conductor at the time was Jorma Panula, who was at the podium for that visit. Now, 55 years later, the group is led by one of his former students: Susanna Mälkki. Her tenure in Helsinki, where she has been the chief conductor since 2016, ends this season. In Los Angeles, Mälkki’s repertoire has been varied: a lot of well-shepherded contemporary music, but also insightfully transparent interpretations of the classics.
Though investigators have yet to pin down a motive in the attack, they are probing whether Garcia was driven by extremist ideologies, a law enforcement source told CNN. Among those killed were two elementary school-aged sisters; three members of a Korean American family, including a child; a mall security guard; and a young engineer. Law enforcement does not yet feel they have a “complete picture” of Garcia’s past and are continuing to dig into his background, a law enforcement source told CNN. The child’s name and age were not given, but the Texas Department of Safety did note a three-year-old child was among those killed. Other victims included Christian LaCour, an outlet mall security guard, and Aishwarya Thatikonda, who was killed while visiting the mall with a friend, CNN affiliate WFAA reported.
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