“How and why the Edinburgh Festival came into being is one of the more curious stories of 20th-century British history, one in which good luck has equal billing with good judgement. But the Festival’s many imitators are proof that Rudolf Bing and Henry Harvey Wood were on to something when they met for lunch in London’s Hanover Square one day in December 1944.”
Tag: 07.07.07
Jerusalem Symphony On Verge Of Closing
“A year short of its 70th anniversary, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra will close down for good on July 15 unless a solution can be found to the latest and most perilous crisis in a series of recent financial reverses.”
NYCity Ballet Star Arrested
“A top New York City Ballet dancer was busted with something to put a little extra spring in his jete – a plastic Baggie of cocaine, police said yesterday. And now Nilas Martins is being cut from the rest of the troupe’s summer performances in upstate Saratoga Springs, even though his dad runs the company.”