What is Remembered

Since I am not particularly big on top-ten lists, I decided to set myself the exercise of trying to identify one event for each month of this year that I would be only too glad to experience for a second time. Here are the results:

Let Dudamel be Dudamel!

Whose idea was it to start referring to Gustavo Dudamel as “The Dude?” Is this an inevitable piece of baggage that he is going to have to carry around Los Angeles in the same vein as the “Dudamel Dog” now available at Pink’s...

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il Directs Staging of Yevgeny Onegin, Tchaikovsky’s Opera of the Classic Pushkin Novel

The KCNA news agency has reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has directed a staging of Yevgeny Onegin, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s opera of the classic Pushkin novel. According to the agency, Kim Jong Il assisted at the rehearsal of Tchaikovsky’s...