Month: April 2019

Those who know and love Paris will surely have been heartbroken at the sight of the beautiful and timelessly elegant Notre-Dame Cathedral succumbing to a devastating fire only a couple of weeks ago. Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens, Consul General of France, describes Notre-Dame de Paris as “Beyond a monument and an architectural masterpiece …. a part of…

The San Francisco Symphony plays host to two exciting guests artists this week – American conductor James Gaffigan, and French pianist Hélène Grimaud. The program is an interesting one too, featuring an eclectic array of works – by Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart and Barber – the main work being Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 4, championed by…