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Music box: this centre for young Spanish musicians is a hermetic stone cube with a luminous heart Founded in 1495 as a 'Grammatic Academy', the University of Santiago de Compostela is one of the oldest in Europe, playing an important part in the cultural life of Galicia and Spain. Like all mode...(Continue Reading) Life in Limbostan: stranded in a Spanish outpost in Africa, illegal immigrants from around the globe await the blessing of expulsion - Dispatch / Ceuta THE WHOLE TIME I WAS IN LA CIUDAD AUTONOMA de Ceuta, one of Spain's last two enclaves in North Africa, a scrap of music kept insinuating it's way into ......(Continue Reading)Spanish France - Manet/Velazquez: the French Taste for Spanish Painting - Critical Essay "Manet/Velazquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting" is not just a dazzling show but a necessary one. Organized by the Musee d'Orsay in Paris and ......(Continue Reading)New music from the old world: a tour of roots music from Southern Italy If the only new music you've heard out of Italy recently has come from Andrea Boccelli or Laura Pausini, then you've been missing out on one of Europe's ......(Continue Reading)The mammals: origin of the species - Music group Ruth Ungar and Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, passing acquaintances for most of their lives, had been sleeping under the same folk festival stages since they ......(Continue Reading)
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