The orchestra has announced the retirement of Dietmar Schwalke, one of the 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic. He joined the orchestra in 1994. Now he plans to play more Baroque music and enjoy his […]
You may recall the horrendous and unprovoked knife attack suffered by the Ecuadorian conductor Dante Anzolini almost two years ago in the Bronx. Dante has yet to recover fully from the assault. He tells us: […]
‘Someone must have slandered Josef K, for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.’ This is the famous opening line of Franz Kafka’s novel Der Prozess (The Trial). Gottfried von Einem’s opera […]