But not quite yet.

There will be a funeral ceremony in Germany, followed by cremation.

Then the ashes of the great ballerina will be kept in the family until the death of her husband, Rodion Shchedrin, after which both will be distributed across the homeland.

A BBC film about conductors, made in the immediate aftermath of The Maestro Myth, has shown up on Youtube. It’s rather better than I remembered it on first screening – and the best of it is watching so many people I have known (self included) as we were in 1992.

Interviewees include Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Georg Solti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser-Most, Mariss Jansons, Klaus Tennstedt, Christoph von Dohnanyi and Leonard Slatkin. Other contributors include Norman Lebrecht, Rodney Friend, Hugh Canning, John Wallace, Gilbert Kaplan and Humphrey Burton.

Lorin, as always, took no prisoners.

The conductor from hell? Players describe a few of them.

The producer was Kriss Rusmanis.

No way would the BBC make such a programme today.

Lee Henderson was an independent voice of reason during the 16-month lockout, a lawyer who (perhaps unusually) rejected confrontation and urged collaboration. Eventually, his arguments prevailed.

His sudden death at 59 has stunned the Minneapolis music community. Read here.

He had planned to escort the orch on its ice-breaker trip to Cuba.

The Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford will graduate its last organ student this month.

It has sold the pipe organ to a church on Long Island.

Declining interest, perhaps. But why sell the organ? Some day, some student might need it.

Claire Jackson has resigned as editor of International Piano magazine, a monthly that she made livelier than it had been before. She had been in the job four years.

We hear that Claire has got a better paid position as Senior Editor at the Centre of Education Research and Practice at the University of Surrey. We hear also that Rhinegold, the owners of Int’l Piano, have decided to save her modest salary by divvying up her duties between the editor of Opera Now and other editors in the group.

Ian Campbell shut down San Diego Opera, saying it was no longer viable. Some members of the board rebelled and he was fired. Now the board has paid Campbell and his ex-wife Ann more than $1m to go quietly, according to tax documents made public on Friday.

The board said: ‘A friend of the Opera, who has chosen to remain anonymous, donated the funds with the specific instruction that they be used to resolve all issues with the transition in leadership so that no other donors’ funds would be used for this purpose.’

For a shaprer view, here’s Nicolas Mansfield, director of Netherlands Touring Opera:

To us Europeans this is a wild and unbelievable story about a man who headed an opera company for 31 years (with his ex-wife), tried to close it down and moved to New York to start a new life. San Diego Opera gave around 16 performances (not productions) per year, for which his annual salary was around one million dollars. One anonymous donor funded his payoff and as cherry on the cake he gets free tickets for every San Diego Opera premiere for life.

Here’s wishing my friend and colleague, David Bennett, all the best in opening a new chapter for this fabulous opera company.

Reuters file photo shows Russian President Vladimir Putin welcoming prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya before a performance at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on November 20, 2000. Plisetskaya died yesterday in Germany of a heart attack, at the age of 89. Putin expressed ‘deep condolences’ to her family.

Maya’s father was murdered in Stalin’s bloodlust of 1938; her mother was sent to Siberia.

From WQXR:

Join us at 1 pm for a live broadcast of Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ballroom Dance) from the Metropolitan Opera.

Ricardo Tamura plays the self-destructive King Gustavo III of Sweden in this afternoon’s performance, replacing Piotr Beczala, who is ill. Sondra Radvanovsky is Amelia, the woman the King loves. Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Anckarström, Gustavo’s friend and Amelia’s husband; Dolora Zajick is Ulrica, the fortune-teller who predicts the king’s murder; and Heidi Stober is the pageboy Oscar.