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In February 2026, a foundation called Cinema for Peace held a gala dinner at Berlin’s Hotel Adlon, arguably the city’s fanciest venue. Hosted by Bob Geldof and featuring a keynote speech by Hillary Clinton, the gala awarded prizes for “International Green Film” or “The Most Valuable Documentary of the Year.” On the red carpet, the […]
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The Church of England has a long history of books that shifted the paradigm of Anglican worship. The King James Bible brought biblical text into a rich and imposing vernacular. The Book of Common Prayer standardized the aesthetic of church practice. Most relevantly for a music magazine, one particular volume sent such a shockwave through […]
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In “The Yellow Tie,” a biopic about the Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache whose premiere I attended in London on Wednesday, things start badly and get steadily worse. We begin with old Celi (John Malkovich) discussing a future engagement with a group of Japanese record executives over lunch at his French estate. To his dismay, they […]
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Maria Kalesnikava, the flutist, conductor, arts manager, and activist, was one of the leading figures of the 2020 pro-democracy movement in Belarus. After her arrest in September 2020, she spent five years under arrest, held as a political prisoner. In December 2025, she was released as part of negotiations between the United States and Belarus, […]
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The most important piece of a Steinway concert grand is one almost nobody ever sees. It lies beneath the strings, a thin sheet of spruce, at its center no thicker than a finger, arched and ribbed like the hull of a boat turned upside down. This is the soundboard, and it does the work of […]
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