Anything Jonas Kaufmann can do

The venerated pianist, playing the first Shostakovich concerto last night in Tel Aviv with the Israel Philharmonic, asked the conductor Lahav Shani to announce that she was playing the encore for Alon Ohel, a prisoner […]

Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery, has been dismissed by tweet. Ttump said: ‘Upon the request and recommendation of many people, I am herby terminating the employment of Kim Sajet as Director of […]

By Gina Thomas in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: … Brendel’s coffin was carried into the church to the strains of the long first movement of Schubert’s String Quintet in C major, performed by the Quator […]