The soft-soap arts section of the newspaper today posts an interview with Michael Haefliger, who is stepping down next year after 25 years at the head of the hyper-elite Lucerne Festival.
Haefliger, 63, has one more job left in his career.
The second sentence of the puff-piece mentions that he studied violin at Juilliard.
So it’s New York he’s looking at. No secret which job.
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