[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