A moment of cool contemplation

Slippedisc.com congratulates the German-Austrian tenor and welcomes him to the club of the third generation. Kaufmann’s married daughter Charlotte Kaufmann, 27, has given birth to a baby girl, her first child. Jonas Kaufmann, 55, is […]

Conductor Herbert Blomstedt is 98. Still going strong. Must surely be the oldest maestro to stand (or sit) in front of the Vienna Philharmonic. The post Today’s other birthday appeared first on Slippedisc.

Georgia O’Keeffe died 39 years ago this week on March 6, 1986, aged 98. Called the “Mother of American Modernism”, she was the preeminent female painter of the 20th century. Starting as a watercolour artist, […]