“CBS News Sunday Morning” has allocated its feelgood slot to the US-born Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt, still working at 98. ‘It’s like intense sex,’ he says, ‘an extremely close relation’.
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Sotheby’s are selling a very scarce first edition next week of Handel’s Giulio Cesare. [Giulio Cesare] Julius Caesar: an Opera. Compos’d by G. Frederick Handel, of London, Gent., London: Cluer, [1724] FIRST EDITION, [6], 118 […]
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