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The latest issue of the New York Review of Books contains a book review by George Stauffer about Alban Berg with this bewildering sentence about Berg’s childhood: He showed few signs of musical talent as a youth aside from informal piano lessons, reading through the scores of songs and operas, and playing four-hand arrangements of … Read more
To buy a Zurich Opera ticket online you have to register on their site, including choosing a form of address from a list which beats any I have seen: As a side detail, their system does not work: to enable registration and booking it is supposed to send you an email with your password, and … Read more