Like playing a floor-laid keyboard with his feet, and an oversexed dog jumping around him?

Or making raw meatballs.

Watch Sat-1 here.

Five weeks ago, we reported the appalling tragedy of a young opera couple whose honeymoon was brought to a terrible end by a Long Island road accident.

Designer Jeremiah Grünblatt was killed on the spot. His new wife, Keturah, was taken to hospital, where she made a good recovery.

This week Associate Director and Choreographer Keturah Stickann received a special award from Placido Domingo for her work on LA Opera’s Moby Dick.

We are receiving reports that James Cuddeford, concertmaster of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, collapsed tonight during a performance of the Schumann cello concerto and was taken to hospital.

James, an Australian who has led the orchestra since 2010, is said to have been ill during the day and vomited several times, but he turned out nonetheless for the performance, with soloist Aurélien Pascal and conductor Christoph Poppen.

Between the second and third movements of the Schumann he appears to have felt unwell and tried to leave the stage. But as he rose from his seat he fell off the stage with his violin.

He is reported to be stable in hospital.

We wish James a swift recovery.

Be careful out there.

Following-day report here.

More airport violence.

Colin Corner, principal double-bass of the Atlanta Symphony, flew Southwest Airlines to his former orchestra at Rochester to play the Koussevitsky concert.

He took with him the famous Amati, formerly owned by Gary Karr and Serge Koussevitsky himself.

He decided to fly the bass cargo, in order to avoid possible mishandling by TSA agents. It was packed in a strong case. This is what greeted Colin on arrival at Rochester.

The instrument had been subjected to some kind of blunt force and the neck was pulled out of the body.

Rochester acting principal bass, Michael Griffin, an expert luthier, is trying to fix it in time for Sunday’s concert.

But the airline has some explaining to do.

Is it now impossible to fly a good instrument anywhere?

This instrument is so historic it has a wikipedia entry all its own.

UPDATE: Colin Corner tells us from Rochester that the bass has been successfully repaired and sounds ‘as good as ever’. Phew!

This is Ricci, whom we laid to rest this week, after 90 full years.