Switzerland in Britain's Culture

Switzerland in britain's culture

Objekttyp: Group

Zeitschrift: The Swiss observer : the journal of the Federation of Swiss Societies in the UK

Band (Jahr): - (1977)

Heft 1726

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January to mid-February — Aberdeen — Sunday, 13th February — Royal Festival THURSDAY, 24th March - Royal 21st February to 18th March — Hall, 7.30 p.m. - Martha zlrgen'ch Festival Hall, 8 p.m. — C/iar/es Faculty of Art & Design, Liverpool plays Chopin's Piano Concerto No. DtztozY (see profile below) conducts Polytechnic - zl ward-winning 1 with the London Symphony the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 7?ooks and Posters /row SwzYzer- Orchestra, under James Levine. (Prokofiev, Ibert, Poulenc, /and. Stravinsky). Monday 14th February — Swiss Embassy, 1st to 30th January — Ferens Art Gallery, — Royal Opera House, Covent 16 Montagu Place, Wl, 6 p.m. (a April/May Kingston-upon-Hull — 12th limited number of free tickets Garden — Peter Mzag conducts 12th March — February to Reading available from the Cultural Coun- Gounod's Faust. Museum & Art Gallery, Reading — sellor) — The German-language 19th March to 17th — April writer Pan/ Mzon (see profile Courtauld Institute Galleries, below) gives a reading from his Félix Vallotton Woburn Square, WC1 — 23rd April works and answers questions (Mr Félix Vallotton and Ferdinand to 15th May — Usher Gallery, Nizon will be addressing students in who twelve Lindum Road, Lincoln — Print and Holder, was years older, were several British Universities between the Swiss artists at Drawings by Fe/ix Fd/iofton (see among most important 7th and 18th February). the the other profile below) an Arts Council turn of century. like many Exhibition. Swiss artists, such as the Tessin architects Thursday, 17th February, to Saturday, in the 17th and 18th centuries and Le February — Dept. of Geography, The 19th February — Cockpit Theatre, Corbusier and Giacometti in more recent Queen's University of Belfast — Gateforth Street, Marylebone, times, Vallotton reached full maturity as Swiss Cartography Fx/zz/uYzon. 8 p.m. — Performances by the an artist in a country other than his own. mime A wie/. This is a familiar pattern. In former times 7th to 27th February — The Concourse Swiss soldiers became mercenaries at the Gallery, Polytechnic of Central service of foreign governments. Today it February 28th to March 12th — Man- London, 35 Marylebone Road, is our artists who establish themselves ehester — Mwo/a A senszo dances NW1 (Baker Street Tube — abroad. Nevertheless they continue to Station) leading roles with the London 8th March 12th — an essential Swiss to April City Festival Ballet. represent part of Museums & Art Gallery, Birming- cultural life, creating valuable links with ham — 22nd April to 22nd May — other countries and cities. Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield — FRIDAY, 11th March — Queen Elizabeth In 1882, at the age of seventeen, Exhibition Photography in SwzYzer- Hall, 7.45 p.m. — F/z'sahet/z Speiser Félix Vallotton moved to Paris where he /and /row 7540 to the Present Day sings with the English Chamber joined the group of "Indépendants". As a — (see summary opposite). Orchestra. member of the group of the "Nabis", he was at the centre of the Paris avant garde in the eighties and nineties. His graphic work, especially the wood cuts, was done almost exclusively between 1891 and 1901. The exhibition, organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain in collabo- ration with the Swiss Pro Helvetia Foundation and made possible by the Galerie Paul Vallotton of Lausanne, has been shown at Leeds, Derby, Bolton, BREMAR HOLDINGS Sunderland, Belfast and Norwich. It will be on show at the Courtauld Gallery in LIMITED London in March-April 1977. United Kingdom based bankers report: Charles Dutoit Charles Dutoit was born in October Half year Half year Year to to 30 Sept. '76 to 30 Sept. '75 31 Mar. '76 1936 in Lausanne, and studied violin, Profit Before piano, composition and conducting at the tax (unaudited) £607,218 £539,440 £1,130,901 Group Profit aftertax £480,884 £386,156 £956,423 INCORPORATING JAQUET-DROZ COMVALOR FINANZ AG, ZUG. one of the oldest and most respect CONTRACO HOLDING & FINANZ AG, ZUG. names in Swiss watchmaking OFFICE ADDRESS: CHEMIN DU CAP NO. 3, CH1006 LAUSANNE. TEL: (21) 299911 JAQUET-DROZ WATCHES LTI A 52-64 Heath Road, Twickenham,! range Bremar Holdings Ltd., Bremar House, of fine Swiss Sale Place, W2 1PT. Tel: 01-262 5000. Middx. TWl 4BX London, !ncabloc®lever Intertelex 21969. and quartz watches Istanbul — London — Zug — Stockholm — New York Telephone: 01-892 8561 from £18-£250 Rio de Janeiro — Athens — Buenos Aires — Luxembourg

18 Conservatoires of Lausanne and Geneva; the exhibition "Photography in Switzer- ] graphic essays are grouped to give a vivid in Italy and the U.S.A. land from 1840 to the present day". This over-all view. At the same time an He was conductor of the Radio is the first comprehensive inventory of attempt has been made to show the Zürich Orchestra from 1964-66 and ballet photography in Switzerland from its expressive possibilities of the camera in conductor at the Vienna Opera between beginnings to the latest works. More than its diversity as well as in its technical 1965 and 1967. In the same year he 1,000 photographs taken by 120 photo- development. Thus the exhibition is not became conductor at the Tonhalle in graphers tell the history of photography only the history of a modern means of Zürich and he is also musical director of in Switzerland. The exhibition is not expression in Switzerland but offers the Berne Symphony Orchestra, having arranged in strict chronological order, personal visual experience of the artist's succeeded Paul Kletzki. although within the single sections the own visual experience. It is an oppor- Charles Dutoit has conducted all photographs are presented in a certain tunity to see ourselves and to learn to see over Europe and Japan, and has visited time sequence. Subjects such as land- because others have looked through the South America on several occasions. He scapes or portraits, reportages or photo- camera for us. has appeared at international festivals. Charles Dutoit will be conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on Tuesday, 18th January, and on Thursday, 24th March, 1977. Swissair Paul Nizon news Swissair has appointed Alex Hegi The Swiss writer Paul Nizon was station manager at Heathrow Airport born in Berne in 1929. He studied history London. He succeeds Albin Meyerhans of art, archaeology and modern German who has become the airline's station literature in his native town and in manager in Bombay. Munich. The subject of his thesis was Mr. Hegi, who is 41, joined Swissair Vincent van Gogh's early style of at Zürich station in 1955. Two years later drawing. He began as an assistant at the he transferred to flight operations; Historisches Museum, Berne, and in 1960 between 1958 and 1967 he was in charge was awarded a scholarship by the Swiss of flight operations and telecommunica- Institute in Rome. Since 1961 he has tions in the Far East and of Swissair been a free-lance writer and journalist (art stations in India and Hong Kong. critic) in Zürich. He has also won a Returning to Zürich he became number of awards. manager of the newly formed station control centre there and subsequently manager of load control, introducing PftoTOgrapfty /« 5wzfzer/anc? 7540 TO /tow Swissair's new computerised loading and A/ex A/eg/', new// appo/'n fe/7 Sw/'ssa/'r f/ze present c/qy passenger check-in system. Since 1972 he s fafton manager af honc/on's A/eafftrow There is a pioneering flavour about has been duty station manager at Zürich. a/'rporf. Pftofo ft/ courtes/ ofSw/ssa/'r.

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