‘I have spent more than half my life in this beloved country of Israel’.

It ends in tears.

The upheavals continue.

Phillippa Cole, Associate Director of Artistic Planning since 2018 is heading to San Francisco where she will be SF Symphony’s Director of Artistic Planning.

Cole, who was previously Michael Tilson Thomas’s agent at Askonas Holt, will accompany the last two years of his music directorship.

The indefatigable Argerich is sharing her wisdom with the future.

See here.

Yesterday was the turn of the Yehudi Menuhin School and Purcell School to face up to past failures to protect pupils from paedophile teachers, in appearances before the the UK Independent Inquiry Into Child Sex Abuse.

You can read a transcript of the day’s proceedings here.

Details were revealed of a late-night discussion session with pupils which led to the summary departure of Purcell head Peter Crook.

Apologies were in short supply.

More follows.

The death is reported of Umberto Grilli, an Italian tenor who often deputised for Pavarotti and enjoyed an international career.

In retirement he founded the Pediconi-Grilli singing competition.

We hear from LA players that Emmanuel Ceysson, sensational principal harp of the Metropolitan Opera, has won the audition for an LA vacancy and will be switching to a sunnier coast.

Ceysson, 35, is one of the standout musicians in the Met orchestra.

He will be the first to defect under the revivalist regime of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, but there may be personal reasons for his move.

Either way, it’s a coup for Dudamel and a headache for the Met.

Emmanuel will be the fourth ex-Met principal in the LA Phil, alongside Whitney Crockett (bassoon), Denis Bouriakov  (flute), and Boris Allakhverdyan (clarinet).