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GUARDIAN Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:47:17 GMT
So far at Bilderberg 2010, Charlie Skelton has clocked Queen Beatrix and Henry Kissinger. Not bad considering the Spanish police's €10m anti-media operation
A man under a hedge stretches, blinks, curses the pointy pebble under his hip, and down goes his finger on the shutter.
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Robert Zoellick, head of the World Bank, a former managing director of Goldman Sachs.
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Paul Volcker, former chairman of the US federal reserve, current chairman of Obama's economic recovery advisory board.
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Josef Ackermann, chairman of Deutsche Bank.
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Peter Voser, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell.
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Dr Henry Alfred Kissinger.
The photos we've seen from this year's conference, which we're showcasing in our big hitters Power Gallery , have been very revealing. You can see from the body language who runs Bilderberg. There's been a lot of power sloshing round the Dolce Sitges Hotel this past week, a lot of wealth, a lot of influence, but you can sense the Überpower when..
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GUARDIAN Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:05:05 GMT
The legendary jazz musician wants to give a present to the jazz buff in Spain who complained to the police that the music at a gig wasn't 'jazz' – and has asked the Guardian to find him. Problem is, we can't . . .
It is not every day that you are given a mission by the high priest of jazz. But Wynton Marsalis, arguably the most celebrated jazz musician of his generation, got in touch this week. The trumpeter has asked the Guardian to track down his new hero – a Spanish jazz purist who called in police to "raid" a festival because the musicians were not playing "real" jazz.
The fan was so upset by Larry Ochs' Sax and Drumming Core at the Sigüenza jazz festival that he rang Spain's civil guard. Ochs' "contemporary" music, he insisted, was damaging to his health. The men in uniform listened for a minute and agreed: "This is not jazz."
After reading the story in the Guardian, Marsalis got in touch. He hails from New Orleans, has a shelf-full of Grammys, and has led the classical charge against the global flood of fusions that so anger jazz purists. "He would like to send this 'fan' a letter of gratitude and a package including most of his catalogue," his assistant Jono Gasparro says from New York. Can I track him down?
"We can't tell you his name," says a gruff Spanish copper from nearby Guadalajara. Sigüenza's town hall, which has the original complaint form, also refuses to name him. "I think he was called Rafael, or maybe Ramon," says someone who thinks he had a Catalan surname.
So our Spanish readership needs to come to the rescue. Surely this jazz buff will have dined out on his Sigüenza exploits? The message is this: Wynton Marsalis, a man you undoubtedly admire, thinks you are wonderful. He wants to send you his entire catalogue of recordings, including his 1997 Pulitzer prize for music oratorio, Blood on The Fields. Email giles.tremlett@guardian.co.uk to claim your reward. In the meantime, as nice Mr Ochs said when he confirmed the story, "Stay tuned!"
Jazz
Spain
Giles Tremlett
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GUARDIAN Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:00:01 GMT
• Aquatints in book given to lover and muse Dora Maar
• Chance discovery by Spanish literary academic
Thirteen etchings by Pablo Picasso have come to light after a Spanish professor discovered them jammed into the pages of a book owned by the Spanish artist's lover and muse, Dora Maar.
The aquatints were found by chance earlier this year when Professor Andrés Soria began leafing through the pages of an illustrated edition of a book of poems by the Spanish poet Luis de Góngora, which was bought by Spain's National Library a decade ago.
The book, which was a homage to one of Picasso's favourite poets, was meant to have been illustrated by another artist — Ignacio González de la Serna.
But it seems that Picasso was so disgusted with González de la Serna's work that he tore the illustrations out and inserted artist's proofs of his own work. He even drew a picture of a mask across González de Serna's name in the front of the book.
The aquatints remained inside the book that Picasso gave to Maar, the French photographer and painter with whom he had a tempestuous relationship in the 1930s and 1940s.
The book bears Picasso's own particular dedication to his lover, whose name has been intertwined with that of Góngora.
Prof Soria said it looked as though Picasso had deliberately adapted the book to make it a present for Maar. He said he had been amazed to find Picasso's own etchings in the book. "It was a very exciting moment," he said.
Most of the etchings were reproduced later in Picasso's own personal homage to Góngora, a limited edition livre d'artiste he published in 1948 in which he wrote out by hand 20 of Góngora's 16th century poems, had them transferred to copper plates and then embellished the margins. The project took Picasso about two years.
Two of the aquatints found by Prof Soria, however, were not included in the later book.
"One looks as though it may be a picture of his son," he said. "It may be that they are unique."
Soria, a literature specialist, said he was waiting for art historians and Picasso experts to turn their attention to the find — which remained secret until today.
The etchings have gone on display in Madrid, at an exhibition dedicated to the influence of the Generation of 1927, which included many of Picasso's Spanish contemporaries including the painter Salvador Dalí, the poet Federico García Lorca and the film-maker Luis Buñuel.
Picasso was first attracted to Maar when he saw her at a restaurant playing a game with a knife that caused her to bleed into her gloves. He accepted one of her bloodied gloves as a gift and later they started what was to become one of the most important – and stormiest – relationships in the artist's life.
Picasso and Maar broke off their relationship in 1946, with the painter claiming that she had always been completely mad. Maar never fully recovered from the break-up. "I was never just Picasso's lover," she reportedly said. "He was my owner."
She later divided her time between Paris and a house that Picasso had left her in Menerbes, Provence. She died, aged 89, in 1997.
The book on Góngora was put up for sale in Paris in 1999 and bought by the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid.
Pablo Picasso
Spain
Giles Tremlett
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Police Brutality: Ian Tomlinson WAS attacked by the Police BEFORE his death
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