We’ll be fine.

 

An enterprising agency is offering a conducting course online with the distinguished Neeme Järvi.

It costs 200 Euros for 50 minutes, with a minimum requirement of 4 or 6 lessons.

Details here.

 

The international baritone Christian Gerhaher is spearheading a group that has filed legal action against the Bavarian Government for ordering the total closure of concert halls and opera houses.

Others who have joined him in the action group are two singers, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke and Kevin Conners, and the Munich Bach Choir director, Hansjörg Albrecht.

This could be interesting.

UPDATE: Press conference Monday at noon. Report here.

It is reported that the cellist Sergei Roldugin who was revealed in the Panama Papers to be a Putin launderer, has spent $6.5 million on four 18th century violins that are credited to Giuseppe Guarneri, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Tommaso Balestrieri and Gaetano Pasta.

Roldugi bought them from Edwulstrad rmic ltd, a Swiss company belonging to Eduard Wolfson.

Read more here.