[log in to unmask] writes:

>A friend at the Berlin Staatsoper just messaged me that performances
>today and tomorrow have been cancelled.  I think the rest of the world's
>performing arts organizations will follow, certainly in the US.  There are
>no words...

Conversely, we were in the process of recording something totally
trivial in the circumstances - a Victor Herbert musical.  But the American
conductor, white-faced and shaken said, 'I don't know how we can think
about this music now, but if we stop, the bastards win.'

Paul Silverthorne