Canadian soprano Layla Claire has made a video for the clothing brand lululemon about her role preparation, which always involves yoga. Interesting to see when and how she does her yoga.

A conscientious editor has sent us the booklet cover of DG’s 75th birthday compendium for the 75th birthday of the celebrated pianist.

Ah well, at least they got the right number of ls in his surname.

Celebrating his 75th birthday in 2017, this luxurious 55CD set presents Pollini’s complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon with their original covers, including the first ever release of Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto with the NHK Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich (recorded in Tokyo in 1974).

Jordan Cartwright is seven years old. He loves music and he has leukemia.

So the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra arranged for him to rehearse and conduct Canada’s National Anthem last week.

There are so many good people out there.

Remember when the best music critics were syndicated, coast to coast?

Nat Hentoff was.

He wrote mostly about jazz and famously about civil liberties and human rights.

He had a 1940s radio show called From Bach to Bartok.

Nat died yesterday at home in Manhattan.

Simone Kermes came on stage in Moscow to face an audience that looked sparser and colder than her normal crowd.

So this is what she did.

If you’re still feeling unwarmed, jump to 3:30 and see what she did to an unsuspecting young man in the front row.

I wonder if his glasses ever got unmisted.