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Claudio Abbado, Citing Ill Health, Pulls Out of Japanese Tour
TRANSLATION: Arnold Schoenberg's 'Pierrot Lunaire,' Op. 21 - "Decapitation"
Teil II: 13. "Decapitation" Lost in the fire of last year's Pierrot centennial was translation. After all, it was Otto Erich Hartleben's German--translated from the original French of Albert Giraud--that Arnold Schoenberg had set. "Tchaikovsky Was Gay...So What?" -- Russian President (and Alleged Homophobe) Vladimir Putin
"Tchaikovsky was gay--although it's true that we don't love him because of that--but he was a great musician and we all love his music. So what?," Putin said in an interview with Russian state Channel 1 television aired on Wednesday.
