The former CEO of the Royal Opera House and DG of the BBC today added a new post to his portfolio.
He is to be chairman of the National History Museum, a sign that he remains on the Civil Service’s list of safe pairs of hands, despite his multiple misjudgements at the BBC.
Lord Hall, 73 is also chair of the unhappy City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
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The town of Bayreuth is planning a Nazi documentation centre. It will be housed in the former mansion of the British antisemitic polemicist Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a significant influence on Richard Wagner and Adolf Hitler. […]
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela: Kullervo Sets Off for War(Mural, 1901, in the Old Student House, Helsinki University) Sigfúsdóttir: Oceans, Grieg: Piano Concerto; Sibelius: Kullervo; Stephen Hough, Johanna Rusanen, Tommi Hakala, Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat (YL) Male Voice Choir, Philharmonia, […]
