Brussels decision to remove funding from the European Union Youth Orchestra has all the hallmarks of EU misrule.
1 It is an unnecessary decision understood by no-one, probably even not by the hapless Hungarian commissioner who signed it.
2 It saves no money. €600,000 is peanuts in the EU waste mountain.
3 It ruins young lives, kills hope across the continent.
4 It has no democratic accountability, no right of appeal.
5 It achieves nothing…
6 … except inasmuch as it turns people off from the tarnished European ideal.
7 It is a symptom of tone-deaf governance, a Juncker regime that cannot hear the music.
So how does the decision affect your Brexit vote on June 23?
A South Korean pianist, Park Jinhyung, and a British trumpeter, Huw Morgan, were winners of the two instrument contests at the 68th Prague Spring festival.
Huw, 28, is principal trumpet of Sinfonieorchester Basel.
You couldn’t make it up.
Vladimir Putin took the stage at a Mariinsky concert, extolling the current Easter Festival and its director, Valery Gergiev.
This event , said Putin, ’caused an unprecedented emotional response around the world, it has become a symbol of hope, the victory of civilization over barbarism, culture and creation over chaos and destruction. … There, around Palmyra, fighting is still going on.’
