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...central Germany, police arrested four Kurdish militants in connection with a string of fire bombings targeted at Turkish property across the country. Over the past month, more than 100 Turkish travel agencies, stores, banks, newspaper offices, mosques, cultural centers and meeting halls in 15 German cities have been hit by Molotov cocktails. Officials suspect the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, which has waged an 11-year war for an independent Kurdish homeland...
...Music is a kind of self-reflection," says the staunchly nationalistic composer. "I don't try to write tragically, but those are my feelings." Kancheli's output includes seven symphonies, an opera and many shorter works; last month his passionate 25-minute work for viola and string orchestra, Abii ne viderem ("I turned away that I might not see"), got its American premiere from violist Kim Kashkashian, conductor Dennis Russell Davies and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Their ECM recording of the same work has just been released...
...April 10, Longy's String Department presents "Generations," a concert of popular music for strings...
...forced as an arena full of headbangers holding their lighters aloft during a power ballad. Often enough, though, there are flashes of excellence. The best and most transporting performance in the new series of concerts was turned in by Etheridge. She walked onto a bare set with no string section, no drums, no backup-just her and her acoustic guitar filling up the stage...
DIED. MORRIS BERNARD ZALE, 93, retailer; in Dallas. Born into poverty in Russia, Zale grew prosperous mass-marketing jewelry in America through his string of 1,200 Zale's stores, where credit lines and other come-ons sold luxury to the less affluent...