[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