THE GREAT ESCAPE was released 62 years ago today. Featuring a huge all-star cast and one of the iconic themes in film, the making of story is as extraordinary as the real-life story on which it is based… 1/39

America has always harbored fascists.

Listening to Nikolaus Harnoncourt's glorious 1969 recording of Monteverdi's Orfeo in honor of the 100th anniversary of soprano Cathy Berberian's birth. She plays both the Messenger and Speranza.

The newest work by HK Gruber is a clarinet concerto premiered at the Carinthian Summer Festival by Sharon Kam on 5 July, exploring the defiant genre of Finnish tango. boosey.com/cr/news/102680

Hungarian classical pianist Annie Fischer was born #OTD in 1914. In 1940 she fled with her husband to Sweden and returned to Budapest in 1946. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Fis…

Tom Godell Cada vez que regreso a ese Orfeo de Harnoncourt y Berberian, siento la emoción intacta. Qué homenaje tan merecido para un hito discográfico y una artista que aún nos deslumbra.

Tom Godell Glorious, says it all… perhaps that explains why I have two copies ‼️ happens occasionally when you’re a #RavenousVinylVulture 🦅

July 5, 1942: Koussevitzky welcomes students to Tanglewood saying: “The cultural standing of a people, as we know, is determined by its creative potency in art more than in any other field, and music of all the arts expresses the very depth and soul of a people.” #Koussevitzky150

Fun fact: Your shadow is a confirmation that light has traveled nearly 93 million miles unobstructed, only to be deprived of reaching the ground in the final few feet thanks to you.

A very happy birthday to Vladimir Ashkenazy, beloved pianist/conductor - and a wonderfully kind, deeply modest man. "Interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music." "As long as the musical line is clear, we shouldn’t disturb it too much."

Vladimir Ashkenazy 88 🎂 youtu.be/HI4JsXi5VN8?si…

Antidote à la grisaille, la voix solaire et à la puissance dévastatrice de Leontyne Price, dans des airs de Puccini. /

I hate it when that happens

"I'm not asking you - I'm telling you. Who is on first." :) Abbott and Costello's The Naughty Nineties was released 80 years ago today on July 6, 1945... #otd

6 July 1944: The future first black major league #baseball player and then second #lieutenant Jackie #Robinson refuses to move to the back of the bus while serving at Fort Hood in Texas. His refusal leads to a court martial where he is acquitted. #42 #ad amzn.to/3iBbTd9

I have invented (or reinvented) the frozen Old Fashioned

Lügenkuchen is my new favorite word