Lucerne cancels Schiff
mainThe Lucerne Festival has called off its mid-May spring festival with Andras Schiff and friends.
The festival had already been postponed from March, but wave-3 Covid is lingering longer than expected among the Swiss.
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I thought Switzerland was a clean country.
Zurich cancels their next live stream because “a person close to the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich has tested positive for Covid-19”.
Luckily it wasn’t Paavo.
Today, Switzerland registered 1844 new infections and 11 deaths from Covid-19.
The reproduction number R is currently 1.18.
The incidence of the ‘third wave’ is rising.
Official daily data are available here:
https://www.covid19.admin.ch/en/overview
While I hold little hope that you would care to familiarise yourself with the data before spouting any more vacuities, other readers might.
Cancel culture of a different sort.
cancels Schiff? the SD headline makes it sound like Schiff has committed an unmentionable woke crime.
“….an unmentionable woke crime”….
Jeez, what this sorry world has come to.
Mickisch@Wahnfried.de
SD been using the word this way for years and years.
Anyway, Schiff has a long and distinguished record of making himself unpleasant with concert presenters. For example: https://slippedisc.com/2019/08/andras-schiffs-schubert-tiff-gets-ungraded-to-full-row/ (link within the link: https://slippedisc.com/2019/07/exclusive-andras-schiff-attacks-steinway-and-boycotts-the-schubertiade/)