John Patitucci is a Grammy-winning virtuoso bass player, presently travelling with the Wayne Shorter Quartet.

This is what happened to his instrument at the hands of the US transport Security Administration.

We’re not sure where. John posted: Look what the TSA did to my bass today and how I had to play on it at tonight’s concert!

1 Antonii Baryshevskyi (Ukraine)

2 Steven Lin (USA)

3 Seong Jin Cho (S Korea)

The results are in.

First is Sumi Hwang. Second Jodie Devos. Third. Sarah Laulan.

This is Leonard Bernstein’s legendary performance of the finale of Haydn 88 with the Vienna Philharmonic, in which he never lifts a finger. The musicians have learned how to read his facial expressions and the audience in the front rows – just watch those faces – sit there wondering what the maestro gets paid for and expecting the performance to collapse.

It’s a magical human transaction, rooted far back in the history of conducting – it was a party trick of Arthur Nikisch – and achievable only with an orchestra of the highest sensitivity.

Lenny knew his Wieners. Would he ever have tried this in New York?

These are four guys from Uganda and pianist Andy Staples on the Eurostar platform at King’s Cross.

They’re part of a group called Sauti ya Africa, working with Opera for Change.

Quote: We are going to stage a major cross-arts festival in Nairobi in 2015 with a team of international artists and partners from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa, Europe, Australia, the United States of America and beyond. The festival will be based around a fully staged, world-class production of Mozart’s Opera “The Magic Flute”.

Literally, too good to be true.

For all lovers and loathers of the big beast.