The fountains were swtched off Saturday after someone injected a yellow dye into the system.
A political ironist, respondng to the Center’s chickening out of the Philharmonic hall refurbishment?
Next stop, the White House lawn?
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The rapper Moses Pelham was awarded yesterday the Goetheplakette of the city of Frankfurt.
Pehahm, 46, is famed for such lines as: ‘Rödelheimer Land- /Ecke Kleemannstraße, ist, wo der Shit hier begann’ – which is comprehensible to anyone with more than 20 words of German.
Previous winners of the Goetheplakette include Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, who was certifiably incomprehensible in any language, and Marcel Reich-Ranicki, the great literary critic.
Der Shit, it seems, may have just begann.
Transport for London wants to made Oxford Street a pedestrian zone and run its buses down the parallel Wigmore Street.
That would spell the end of perfect silence in the Wigmore Hall, one of the world’s great chamber music venues.
Have your say in the consultation process here.
The diva sang Adriana Lecouvreur for this first time in June at the Mariinsky in St Petersburg.
Piotr Beczala has never sung Maurizio in Cilea’s opera before.
They appear together at the Staatsoper from Thursday in a revival David McVicar’s 2014 staging.
First rehearsal pics:
Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall has erected new white fences around doorways for added security in these troubled times.
What they didn’t reckon on was a protest from the city’s homeless population who like to doss down there at night.
You really have to think of everyone if you’re running an orchestra.
Read here.
Tipples all round at Schloss DG.
The classical charts are out and Daniil Trifonov’s Chopin Evocations have knocked Germany’s favourite tenor off his customary position this week at the top of the sales charts.
It’s a damn good record, too.
The entertaining Flute Channel stages a showdown in Montreal.
If you’re a flutie, you cannot afford to miss this.
A new report by Arts Council England, published today amid much back-slapping, finds that the culture sector grew by 10.4% in 2015 to £11.8 billion, five times as fast as the rest of the economy.
But that was before the Brexit referendum. Every indicator we have seen since then is of slowdown and regression.
Sorry for the dampener, but that’s how it is.
The family has announced the death of Matanya Ophee, a vibrant figure in the classical guitar world. He was 85.
Jerusalem born and active in contemporary music, he learned to fly in the Israel air force and put his skills to use as an airline pilot when he migrated to the US in 1965.
There he formed a chamber ensemble in New Hampshire and wrote combatively for guitar journals. In 1978, he founded the publishing company Editions Orphée, becoming a cornerstone of classical guitar activity.
The composer Václav Riedlbauch, who ran the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra as direc tor general from 2001 to 2009, has died after a long illness.
He made two unsuccessful conductor appointments, replacing Vladimir Ashkenazy with Zdenek Macal, and Macal with Eliahu Inbal in an unhappy period for the orchestra.
After being deposed in a player revolt, Riedlbauch served for a year as Minister for Culture. He taught for 35 years at the Academy for Performing Arts in Prague. Among his compositions was a long-running ballet, Macbeth
An alarming statistic about primary school teaching quoted by the Deutscher Musikrat.
More here.
Robert Knight, one-hit wonder of 1967, has died, aged 72.
He worked most his life as a lab technician at Tennessee State University.
