The Norwegian cellist Truls Mork is back, The Strad reports.
He’s been off for 18 months with a rare encephalitis that paralysed his shoulder.
Norway has just awarded him the Sibelius Prize.
Can’t wait to hear him again, part of a terrific crop of Norwegian artists.
photo:EMI
The Norwegian cellist Truls Mork is back, The Strad reports.
He’s been off for 18 months with a rare encephalitis that paralysed his shoulder.
Norway has just awarded him the Sibelius Prize.
Can’t wait to hear him again, part of a terrific crop of Norwegian artists.
photo:EMI
The wonderful Brigitte Fassbaender, once a famous mezzo soprano and now Intendant of a medium-size opera house in Innsbruck, has been appointed an honorary Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur by the French Government.
That, for some reason, has made by day. All too often singers get forgotten once they step off into retirement, even if they continue to play an active role in theatre management (this may be one why Placido Domingo, now 70, tries to do both). Fassbaender had a unique timbre and was part of the extraordinary 1960s ensemble at Bavarian State Opera in Munich before taking up an intenational career.
She
talked to me with great candour three years ago about her parents’ happy times with the Nazis, about difficulties with colleagues and about her own sexuality. I have seldom met a singer who was more at ease with herself, more at home in her skin.
She deserves every gong that’s going. Viel Spass, Brigitte!
The wonderful Brigitte Fassbaender, once a famous mezzo soprano and now Intendant of a medium-size opera house in Innsbruck, has been appointed an honorary Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur by the French Government.
That, for some reason, has made by day. All too often singers get forgotten once they step off into retirement, even if they continue to play an active role in theatre management (this may be one why Placido Domingo, now 70, tries to do both). Fassbaender had a unique timbre and was part of the extraordinary 1960s ensemble at Bavarian State Opera in Munich before taking up an intenational career.
She
talked to me with great candour three years ago about her parents’ happy times with the Nazis, about difficulties with colleagues and about her own sexuality. I have seldom met a singer who was more at ease with herself, more at home in her skin.
She deserves every gong that’s going. Viel Spass, Brigitte!
Arts Council England, which can do little right at the moment, proudly announced yesterday morning a new partnership with News International, by which arts organisations could obtain press sponsorship and preferential coverage in such great publications as The Times, The Sun and The News of the World.
It seemed too good to be true.
Later that day, News International sacked an assistant editor at the News of the World over his alleged involvement in phone hacking. It also handed ‘significant’ new evidence to the police.
Almost immediately, the ACE put out the following statement on its
website:
Statement regarding Arts Council and News International
- Date: 26 January 2011
- Region: Arts Council England
The Arts Council apologises for any confusion that has been caused by its posting about News International. There was no partnership with News International and there has never been approval for a partnership between the Arts Council and News International on either side.
You really couldn’t make it up.
Arts Council England, which can do little right at the moment, proudly announced yesterday morning a new partnership with News International, by which arts organisations could obtain press sponsorship and preferential coverage in such great publications as The Times, The Sun and The News of the World.
It seemed too good to be true.
Later that day, News International sacked an assistant editor at the News of the World over his alleged involvement in phone hacking. It also handed ‘significant’ new evidence to the police.
Almost immediately, the ACE put out the following statement on its
website:
Statement regarding Arts Council and News International
- Date: 26 January 2011
- Region: Arts Council England
The Arts Council apologises for any confusion that has been caused by its posting about News International. There was no partnership with News International and there has never been approval for a partnership between the Arts Council and News International on either side.
You really couldn’t make it up.
The Yehudi Menuhin Foundation in Germany has filed for insolvency.
A press release from the foundation in Düsseldorf says it has been forced to suspend trading after a government report criticised its annual submission and accounting procedures. The government has also asked for a full breakdown on the spending of a Euro 3 million grant.
The Foundation, set up in 1999, provides music tuition and events for 11,000 school children across north and west Germany.
Yehudi would have been so sad.
photo: Life
The Yehudi Menuhin Foundation in Germany has filed for insolvency.
A press release from the foundation in Düsseldorf says it has been forced to suspend trading after a government report criticised its annual submission and accounting procedures. The government has also asked for a full breakdown on the spending of a Euro 3 million grant.
The Foundation, set up in 1999, provides music tuition and events for 11,000 school children across north and west Germany.
Yehudi would have been so sad.
photo: Life
