The irrepressible violin professor was chairman of the jury of the Wieniawski Competition in Lublin.

The joint winners – Sara Dragan and Raquel Areal Martinez – are both Bron students.

So is the second prize winner, Eduard Kollert.

The competition is funded by the Polish Ministry of Culture and the city of Lublin.

Perhaps they should look into the misallocation of public awards.

Results here.

Apparently.

From the New York Post:

Parents and even teachers at a Brooklyn performing arts school were shocked to learn Friday that the school can no longer audition prospective students under the district’s new diversity plan.

Families at the New Voices School of Academic and Creative Arts in Sunset Park were blindsided by the news a day after Mayor Bill de Blasio approved a scheme to scrap admissions standards at all middle schools in District 15….

Until now, New Voices — the only performing arts middle school in the Park Slope-to-Sunset Park district — has selected students through auditions and interviews.

But entry will now be based on a lottery — and half the seats will be reserved for low-income, homeless and English-language-learning applicants….

Read on here. And weep.

Thierry Vagne has compiled the ultimate discography here and here.

Has he forgotten anything?

The Greco-Russian conductor gives a mystifying, mystic interview.

‘When people say I’m vegan, why don’t they have pity for the trees?’

‘I am melancholic.’

‘There was a girl who hated me. In a dream, I was in love with her.’

‘We are all dead.’

Watch.

Several of these famous well-wishers manage at least one wrong note.