"CON LA BOCA ABIERTA Y LOS OJOS LLENOS DE LÁGRIMAS".

"Rachmaninov attacks woman,

caught on film".

"24.10.2009."Rob, in a previous post, drew our attention to two clips on YouTube of recordings of composers’ voices. But he didn’t say that the Rachmaninov clip was a compilation of over 8 minutes of private film of the composer at home".

"I’ve seen some of this footage before, but over half of it I was seeing, "with an open mouth and tearful eye", for the first time. And yes, at 6′ 34", the Russian composer grabs a woman around the waist and, it appears, pulls her to the ground before then lunging after another woman. Of course, all in good fun, and another example of how amazing and invaluable YouTube is".

"Charles Mackerras Turns, the Screw at ENO with power-driven precision".

"Something seriously touching happened last night at the end of ENO’s revived Turn of the Screw: a presentation to Sir Charles Mackerras who had spent the evening in the pit conducting with bizarre precision, focus, energy and sense of purpose for a man of almost 84".

"The presentation celebrated, two things other than the mere fact of longevity. One was that it had been 61 years since he first picked up a baton for the company, in those long-distant times when it was Sadlers Wells".

"The other was that he was here with Screw, an opera he conducted back in 1954 when it first came to London after the Venice premiere, sharing the job with Britten himself and with the… Read More".