Jonas Kaufmann, piano shifter

The magnificent saxophonist David Sanborn has died of prostate cancer, which he had endured for six years. He took up the instrument on doctors’ orders as a child to strengthen his chest muscles and improve […]

Finnish and Estonian newspapers report that the wreckage of a civilian airliner shot down by the Russians on June 14, 1940 has been found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The plane had been […]

This is the famed Philharmonic Hall in Odesa, incubator of a century of musical talent. The Russians lit into it with drones this weekend.   In total, last night, the Russians launched 165 missiles and […]