Ten years ago, the musicians and people of Nuremburg capture the spirit of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.
Forty million people watched the video.
It was an innocent, trusting time.
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There has long been a theory that the German master lives on in the form of Valery Gergiev, the post-Soviet conductor who provided cultural reassurance and stability for the criminal regime of Vladimir Putin as […]
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Raise a breakfast coffee to Ruth Slenczynska, still playing on her 100th birthday. She first played with orchestra in Paris 93 years ago. Her teachers were Artur Schnabel, Egon Petri, Alfred Cortot, Josef Hofmann, and […]
