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The winners will receive 1 million kronor ($122,000) each and formally accept the prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony in Stockholm on August 31. Gabriel, 59, was honoured "for his ground-breaking, outward-looking and boundary-busting...
Tags: Peter Gabriel, music prize, Jose Antonio Abreu, polar music, Stockholm
The Stockholm audience gave the prizewinners a standing ovation...Beauty contests Canceled An Italian priest backtracked from his idea to organize an online beauty pageant for nuns, saying Tuesday he had been misunderstood and incurred the protests of...
Tags: music prize, Renee Fleming, polar music, Pink Floyd, polar prize, Sweden
ET American soprano Renée Fleming and British rock group Pink Floyd have won Sweden's 2008 Polar Music Prize...The prize of one million Swedish krona ($167,5000 Cdn) will be awarded in an Aug. 26 ceremony. Fleming, 49, considered one of the world's finest...
Tags: Pink Floyd, music prize, Renée Fleming, polar music, cash prize, Stockholm