The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities has been scrapped in an executive order, it was discovered overnight.
Past members of the largely symbolic committee include Frank Sinatra and Yo Yo Ma.
Present co-chairs are Lady Gaga (pic) and a Biden donor, Bruce Cohen.
The committee dispenses a piffling $335,000. Barely worth its weight in tarriffs.
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The Zagreb Soloists have announced the death of their long serving concertmaster, Tonko Ninić. The post Concertmaster, 91 appeared first on Slippedisc.
The much-loved Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena has taken to social media to share some bad health news. He has been diagnosed with Alzherimers Disease, but continues to feel well in himself and will carry on […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Did Bartók play klezmer? The Hungarian composer enthused over many authentic forms of folk music and spent his summers tracking them down across the Balkans, the Iberian peninsula […]
