Major award for Berlin conductor
NewsThe conductor Joana Mallwitz, artistic director of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, has been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The federal citation states that Mallwitz, 37, stands for ‘the future of classical music with its universal, people-unifying language’.
Timing is everything in politics, as in music.
The award is being made on the day that, across Berlin, a handover is being arranged between musical dinosaurs.
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