Now Cleveland avoids the UK
NewsThe Cleveland Orchestra, America’s finest on current form, is plannign a Europe tour this summer.
Between August 26 and September 7, the orchestra will play in Berlin, Helsinki, Lucerne, Ansfelden, Bratislava, and Vienna, with music director Franz Welser-Möst and Icelandic star VÃkingur Ólafsson playing the Schumann piano concerto.
In normal circumstances, Cleveland would have planned a stop at the Edinburgh Festival or the BBC Proms, or both. But Britain has pinched its arts organisations to the bone and there were not enough funds, or knowhow, to make a stopover work.
So London loses out to Bratislava.
So it goes.
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