While other orchestras announce copycat Beethoven cycles over 2019-20 for the composer’s 250th anniversary, Christian Thielemann plans a month by month survey with the Dresden Staatskapelle.

He will do symphonies 1-3 on one night this December, symphonies 4-5 in a January 2020 concert… and so on until he hits the 9th.

Not bad.

A highly-regarded student at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music has been shot and killed during an attempted robbery in the neighbourhood.

Victor McElhaney, 21, was the son of an Oakland city councilwoman.

He was a jazz studies major.

The family are devastated.