The cow From that wonderful museum in Amsterdam comes this quirky little video about the cow and its importance in Dutch painting. Friso Lammertse, curator of 17th Century Dutch paintings at the Rijksmuseum, tells […]
The Primrose Competition, a kind of world cup for violists, has been won by Emad Zolfaghari, from Toronto. He is 19 and studying at Curtis. Second was Kinga Wojdalska, 25, from Poland. This year’s competition, […]
The Georgian-Russian music conductor Vakhtang Machavariani, head of the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra in Tbilisi since 1996, has died at the age of 74. In 1990 he created the Soviet Festival Orchestra while also conducting […]