The Divertimento Symphony Orchestra was conducted at the Olympics closing ceremony by its founder Zahia Ziouani.
She’s French-Algerian, born in Paris in 1978, twin sister of the cellist Fettouma Ziouani.
Benjamin Bernheim sang Fauré’s Hymn to Apollo with a flying piano accompanist.
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The death has been notified of Kenneth Krohn, seen here jamming with Mehta and Perlman in the 1980s IPO. His last positions were Adjunct Professor of Percussion at Montgomery College, Maryland, and timpanist of the […]
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.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Warm hearted & with a twinkle in his eye: The Brook Street Band bring out the sense of enjoyment in the violin sonatas of Ipswich-based Joseph Gibbs")
