Old orchestra with a fresh approach Mar 1, 2010
Riccardo Chailly (above) conducted the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Thursday night ... The venerable Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra took the stage with its music director Riccardo Chailly and before long, its storied string section was radiating the heat of a crackling fire ... These days in Leipzig, tradition has a fresh swing in its step. (Boston Globe)
Brain has areas devoted to learning nouns, verbs Feb 27, 2010
Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, psychologist from the University of Barcelona, along with Anna Mestres-Misse, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, and Thomas Munte from the Otto-von-Guericke University in Germany, have just confirmed neural differences in the map of the brain when a person learns new nouns and verbs. The team knew that many patients with brain damage exhibit dissociation in processing these words, and that children learn nouns before verbs. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Music: the week ahead Feb 25, 2010
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA The venerable ensemble returns to Symphony Hall under the baton of Riccardo Chailly. The program is all-Beethoven, including the Symphony No. 7 and the Emperor Concerto with piano soloist Louis Lortie. (Boston Globe)
The Asymmetry of German Reunificati... Feb 7, 2010
70,000 East Germans marched in Leipzig on October 9th, and the SED did not forcefully repress the protest (Turner 231). Exactly one month later, November 9th, an official s ambiguous comment on a new travel law caused thousands of citizens to storm the checkpoints, which the guards opened (Turner 235). (Suite101.com)
European B-schools eye tie-ups for dual degree courses Jan 13, 2010
It is also in talks with Leipzig Graduate School in Germany for a similar programme. IIM Calcutta has been approached by a few European B-schools too. (India Times)
Europe struggles under cold snap Jan 10, 2010
Leipzig in the east shivered under 29cm of snow, Berlin had 27cm and Hamburg in the northwest 12cm. Dozens of villages in rural Schleswig-Holstein state and on the Baltic Sea islands were completely cut off, while more than 1,000 car accidents have been reported across Germany in recent days, several of them fatal. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Germany suffers more snow misery Jan 10, 2010
Germany was hit by severe winter weather for a second day on Sunday, with Leipzig and Berlin both under almost a foot (30cm) of snow and gale-force winds buffeting many places. Dozens of villages in rural Schleswig-Holstein and on Baltic Sea islands remain cut off and many accidents have been reported on icy roads across the country, a situation exacerbated by shortages of grit. (BBC News)
