The Rotterdam Philharmonic has given a Mozart performance with some of its players together with the Israel Philharmonic, with whom they share a music director.

Lahav Shani played the solo part of the slow movement of Mozart’s 27th piano concerto in a performance carried on the Facebook pages of the two orchestras and (below) on Youtube.

Both countries mark anniversaries of their war dead at this time of year.

The Gstaad Menuhin Festival and Academy was called off this morning.

Aspen is expected to announce later today. UPDATE: Aspen has closed. So too has Grant Park. Peter Oundjian’s Colorado Music Festival went down tonight.

A statement is due today from the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, which takes place in October. UPDATE: It’s off.

Glyndebourne has scheduled an announcement for Friday. UPDATE: It has announced early.

Salzburg is said to be imminent, likewise Bregenz.

The BBC Proms dithers on.

It’s going to be an empty summer.

Ojai cancelled last week

Rosalind Elias, who sang 687 times in more than 50 roles over 35 seasons at the Metropolitan Opera and on tour, has died aged 90.

The youngest of 13 children of Lebanese immigrants, she made her Met debut in 1954 as Grimgerde in Die Walküre. Her last performances were on Broadway in 2011 as Heidi Schiller in Stephen Sondheim’s Follies.

Abroad, Elias sang in La Cenerentola for Scottish Opera in 1970, Carmen at the Vienna State Opera in 1972, and Baba the Turk in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at Glyndebourne in 1975.

She married a fellow-Lebanese-American, Zoyhayr Moghrabi.