French composer Henri Dutilleux wins prestigious Siemens music prize
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French composer Henri Dutilleux has won the prestigious international Ernst von Siemens music prize this year, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation announced on Friday.
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American Steve Reich won Japan's   Praemium Imperiale award for music on Thursday, but the   influential minimalist composer said it took time for his work   to be widely accepted.
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Gretchen Parlato won the Thelonius Monk International Jazz competition this year, where the chosen instrument was the voice.
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Elfriede Jelinek, an avant-garde Austrian author and dramatist known for politicized prose that stabs at social convention and sexual oppression, won the Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday.
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The much coveted award was given to Scotland&#39;s art-rock band Franz Ferdinand for their 2004 self-titled album. The four-piece was in the top running for the Prize, along with the Streets and the Zutons.
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Alberto Iglesias, who composed the soundtracks for Oscar-winning film director Pedro Almodovar's "Talk to Her" and "All About My Mother," has won Spain's 2007 National Film Award, the Culture Ministry said Monday.
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Intense music performed by Alexandra du Bois, Alexander Fiterstein and Nicholas Canellakis made for a fitting evening at the floating concert hall on Wednesday.
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Physicist Stephen Hawking received the highest award for scientific achievement Thursday for his work in theoretical physics and cosmology.
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Germany has awarded the Daphna prize to Russian ballet dancer Polina Semenova. The award instituted by the Union of Berlin Theatre Goers in 1976 was conferred upon the Russian ballet dancer at the Unter - den ...
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French President Jacques Chirac bestowed the country&#39;s highest honour on director Steven Spielberg at a star-studded ceremony in Paris on Sunday.
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AN annual award was launched yesterday to encou
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Cncerto con Garfunkel per il premio George Gershwin
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Franz Ferdinand scooped this year's Mercury Prize, the most prestigious musical award in the United Kingdom.
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Aaron Goldin, this week&#39;s Person of the Week, won the grand prize at the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology.
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Austrian novelist and playwright  Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature on  Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.
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The composer belts out an impressive concert.
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Alstom SA, the French engineering company rescued from near bankruptcy, said it won contracts worth 1.36 billion euros ($1.69 billion) to provide China with trains as well as hydroelectric and nuclear power equipment.