Press Release: Deals Done Small UK Publisher Acquires Huge European Bestseller

Posted at 10:57AM Wednesday 22 Feb 2012

The UK rights for a European publishing phenomenon have been acquired by the small independent British publisher, Hesperus Press.

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson . . . → Read More: Small UK Publisher Acquires Huge European Bestseller

While Houston Symphony’s Orbit – an HD Odyssey trekked around planet Earth, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestras’ journey took flight and reached for the Solar System’s fifth largest satellite. Moonstruck and moondrunk, the opening premise of JoAnn Falletta’s poem in response to Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, was the muse for the ensemble’s premiere of . . . → Read More: A drunk Pierrot & an expensive Haydn: ROCO commissions music others won’t dare …

DIETMAR Hamann tells a famous story about Giovanni Trapattoni, elements of which are unsuitable for a family newspaper.

It revolves, perhaps predictably, around the Ireland manager’s inability to fully grasp the nuances of a different language. Hamann was a youngster at Bayern Munich when Trapattoni regularly caused hilarity with his attempts at German. Press . . . → Read More: ‘Trap would bring out the best in Stephen Ireland’

It’s a story as old as time: alien girl sings about how she’s bored, alien girl steals spaceship for planet earth, girl dances with snakes, elephants, and stereotypical African natives. And she does it all in sequins. It’s just a normal day on the set of the German musical revue Bühne frei für . . . → Read More: A bored alien lady dances with a snake in this bizarre German musical

Berlin

One doesn’t have to go to a Sunday morning world premiere screening at the Berlin Film Festival, now in the last few days of its 62nd incarnation, to come to the obvious conclusion that  movies have become the world’s religion. Ten o’clock on Sunday morning and the festival venues around the city are . . . → Read More: Zarafa: Big Neck, Melting Eyes