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In this file photo “Overview effect” sculpture by Poetic Kinetics travels in the field at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.

In this file photo ‘Overview Effect’ Astronaut sculpture by Poetic Kinetics, founded by artist Patrick Shearn, is unleashed at Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California. In this file photo fans cheer as Petit Biscuit performs at the Coachella Music — AFP photos and Arts Festival in Indio.

oronavirus angst has the world washing contagious virus thing is new to me,” she told late: “You can’t get insurance on a building For now, it’s just postponed, but in the Coachella Valley, with a population that skews Cits hands with newfound vigor-but the AFP. “I know I sound crazy-but I’m not han- when it’s already on fire.” “If they have a poli- event of cancellation an insurance payout older-the very people coronavirus could hit performing arts world wringing them, dling it very calmly.” cy that’s going to respond, in most cases we due to force majeure could hover between hardest. as directives to scrap mass events threaten need a government entity of some sort to pull $150 and 200 million. Depending on individ- But it’s also a zone where tourism reigns: the entertainment world with economic chaos. ‘Already on fire’ the plug,” Siegel said. That requirement is ual contracts, artists would likely keep what- the Palm Springs-area visitors bureau says The past week has seen major events includ- Kevin Lyman, founder of the Warped Tour- likely why California’s Coachella festival- ever payouts they’ve already received-but the $7 billion-industry supports one in four ing Miami’s Ultra electronic dance music fest a traveling rock tour that ran from 1995-2019 which has been sold out for months, and might be out money already spent on set jobs. Fear in the festival circuit extends to and Austin’s famed South By Southwest cul- — said the last time he witnessed such enter- expects 125,000 fans daily over the two April production. In the end, “it always is going to concert venues worldwide, Lyman said. Large ture and tech 10-day event cancelled, and the tainment industry chaos was post-September weekends-waited until Riverside County come back to what the actual cause of loss entertainment companies like AEG-the parent spring’s premier Coachella festival postponed 11. Amid that shock, he recalls the first reac- declared a public health emergency, and was and if that was a covered peril in your company of GoldenVoice, which puts on until October. tion was “to keep the show going.” “And of ordered the rescheduling. policy,” Siegel said. “It’s not black and white. Coachella-or Live Nation will “take a hit,” he Pearl Jam, Madonna and Santana are course it didn’t,” he told AFP. “The music It’s open to interpretation.” “It’s really said, but it’s the independent club owners fac- among the A-list artists who’ve dropped or business shut down for awhile.” But Lyman ‘Uncharted territory’ uncharted territory.” ing serious financial threats. postponed concert dates at home and abroad called the current coronavirus panic A mandate from Riverside County-the “Those small people that depend on the over virus fears, with fine arts venues like the “unprecedented.” Adam Siegel, the entertain- municipal authority where the desert music ‘Devastating’ weekly business that don’t have big reserve Boston Symphony Orchestra and New York’s ment manager at American Agents & Brokers- festival takes place-to cancel or move the The economic consequences of pushing funds-it could be devastating,” he said. American Ballet Theater also cancelling tours an insurance company whose clients include show would trigger any protective insurance back or cancelling major festivals and events “Every day that goes longer, it’ll hit them to a in Asia and the Middle East. Elvan Sahin, a 32- Ultra-said that massive events like Coachella policy promoters have, Siegel said. It could reach far beyond promoters and artists, Siegel greater degree.” But as the world reels from year-old Manhattan resident, decided against might have four to five different insurance also allow events to exercise a “force said. “There’s a lot at stake,” he said. “There’s cancellations, it appears venues can count on attending a classical music concert this week policies. majeure” clause in performance contracts, a lot more people that are in this food chain at least one artist to stick it out. Bob Dylan, at New York’s Lincoln Center over the coron- Terrorism insurance has been common- which waive financial liability between pro- that are going to be affected-vendors, crew, 78, on Monday announced a summer North avirus, saying: “I think I’m going to be more place since 9/11, and many American events moters and artists in the case of extreme, local businesses.” “In a gig economy, many American tour-on top of April’s schedule that comfortable sitting this out.” “I’m used to tun- now buy active shooter insurance, he said-but unpredictable emergencies. Coachella nets people who have been booked to work has him playing 14 dates in Japan.—AFP ing out the hype and exaggeration around the average contract doesn’t have a clause for between $75 million and $100 million in prof- Coachella, for example, could be out a lot of hurricanes and snowstorms, but this whole communicable disease threats. Now it’s too its each year, according to the LA Times. money.” Just under 400,000 people live in the

wedish-born actor Max von Sydow, n Italian rock star promised Tuesday whose seven-decade career saw him S to stream her next concert from home go from starring in iconic art-house A to break through the “loneliness” movies by Ingmar Bergman to appearing in imposed by the government’s social dis- English-language hits including “The tancing measures to curb the new coron- Exorcist” and “Game of Thrones”, has died in France aged 90, his family said. “It is with avirus. Gianna Nannini, now 65 and a local a broken heart and with infinite sadness that celebrity who has around 30 albums to her we have the extreme pain of announcing the name, took to Instagram to lament about life in the time of the deadly epidemic. “The ter- Billie Eilish departure of Max von Sydow” on Sunday, said a statement sent to AFP. Von Sydow rible thing about this virus is the loneliness,” Gianna Nannini took French citizenship in 2002 and she wrote shortly after the government Italy’s has suffered the brunt in Europe renounced his Swedish nationality, but imposed nationwide restrictions on travel of a virus that developed in China before remains fondly remembered in his homeland. and public gatherings. “I am in Milan and I With chiseled features and piercing blue want to play some acoustic rock songs killing 463 people in the Mediterranean Swedish-born actor Max von Sydow poses eyes, von Sydow became a recognizable online so that we can all feel a bit closer to country in slightly over two weeks. Italy on face during a career that mixed genres and for a picture in front of the cathedral of each other and still be safe,” she wrote. Tuesday imposed travel restrictions and a languages and saw him play vulnerable Rouen, western France on March 5, Nannini’s raspy voice is known to a gen- ban on public gatherings to help fight the heroes and evil villains. “He was one of the 1989.— AFP eration of Italians thanks to a prolific career spread of the disease. Livestreaming is world’s greatest actors,” said the former spanning four decades. Her more recent turning into a social phenomenon in Italy as S singer-songwriter Billie Eilish racked up another president of the Cannes film festival Gilles He appeared in numerous other Bergman concerts have provided a blend of melodic the government’s restrictions become more Urecord on Tuesday after her hit “Bad Guy” was Jacob. “He could play troubling roles but movies, notably “The Virgin Spring” and pop and more hard-hitting rock that sells severe. named the best-selling global single of 2019. The Max had a delicacy and a humanity that “Through a Glass Darkly” as well as the out stadiums to this day. She promised to International Federation of the Phonographic Industry were so moving.” In 1973, he became part of English-language “The Touch” in which he livestream her concert today at 1500 GMT. said the teenager’s track notched up the equivalent of horror movie history in “The Exorcist” starred alongside American actor Elliott “We will do our best to overcome this terri- 19.5 million sales from permanent downloads and video where he portrayed a priest trying to rid a Gould. He also worked with fellow ble moment together,” Nannini wrote. and audio streaming. It also topped the charts in 15 possessed young girl of her literal demons, Scandinavian acting great Liv Ullmann on countries, the London-based organization added. “Bad shouting the iconic line: “The power of Jan Troell’s 1971 masterpiece “The Guy” was the fifth single released from her breakthrough Christ compels you.” More recently, von Emigrants” about a group of impoverished Europe’s top series festival album “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” Sydow appeared in blockbusters such as Swedes moving to the United States. It She beat Lil Nas X, Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and the hit received several Oscar nominations. Von the top spot in the annual IFPI Global Top Digital Singles television HBO series “Game of Thrones” Sydow was twice nominated for Academy called off over coronavirus Chart. “Billie Eilish has taken the world by storm with her making him a familiar face to millions in the Awards, first in 1989 for his role in “Pelle the later part of his life. Conqueror” and then in 2012 for “Extremely incredible voice and genre-defying sound,” said IFPI leading European festival, Series Loud and Incredibly Close,” about an 11- The world’s second biggest television chief executive Frances Moore. “She is also an artist who Mania, offering the cream of and entertainment market, MIPTV, which addresses important issues like mental health in her lyrics Chess with death year-old boy whose father dies in the A upcoming streaming and television was to run alongside it later this month in that clearly resonate with her fans all over the world.” His career began more humbly in the ear- September 11, 2001 attacks. ly 1950s on the theatre stages of Stockholm One of his final roles was as a stern series, was cancelled Wednesday because Cannes, was also cancelled. A slew of The single, released a year ago, scooped the award for of the coronavirus epidemic. The gather- concerts, operas and ballets have been Song of the Year at the Grammys. and then Malmo, where he met the man who Russian admiral in Thomas Vinterberg’s 2018 would help forge his career-Swedish direc- English-language film about the 2000 Kursk ing, which draws more than 80,000 peo- pulled or postponed across France in an The 18-year-old continued her winning streak last ple to the northern French city of Lille attempt to slow the spread of the virus. month when her new track enjoyed the biggest opening tor Ingmar Bergman. It is von Sydow’s col- Russian submarine disaster. Von Sydow had laboration with Bergman in art-house films two sons with his first wife Christina Olin. He was to have begun on March 20. Festival The Musee d’Orsay in Paris-which holds week of all time for a James Bond theme song in the president Rodolphe Belmer said the “diffi- the world’s biggest collection of British charts. “No Time To Die” landed straight in at often laden with existential angst-now seen married his second wife, French documen- as all-time classics-that are likely to be his tary filmmaker Catherine Brelet, in 1997, and cult decision” had to be made after the Impressionist paintings-also began number one, becoming her first British chart-topper. The Paris government banned gatherings of restricting access to 1,000 visitors at a single, co-written and produced by the US star and her best-remembered roles. In one of the most the couple lived together in France. He had memorable scenes in the history of cinema, to renounce his Swedish citizenship in 2002 more than 1,000 people amid internation- time Wednesday, two days after the brother Finneas, generated 90,000 chart sales and 10.6 al travel restrictions. A rival festival, Louvre imposed a similar bar.—AFP million streams. Other artists who scored singles in the von Sydow played the knight who has a when he acquired French nationality. —AFP chess game with death on a lonely beach in Canneseries, fell victim to the virus last IFPI’s top-10 list include Ariana Grande, Lewis Capaldi week and was postponed until autumn. and Lady Gaga. — AFP “The Seventh Seal” from 1957.