SPOTLIGHT: Historically informed performances - Kieran Beville
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LOCAL musicians have created a new organisation to support historically informed performance in Limerick and its environs. March 21 is the confluence of a number of notable events – it is the spring equinox, and for classical music fans it is JS Bach’s birthday! Even more specifically for lovers of classical music, the 21st of March is annually feted around Europe and the world as Early Music Day.
A few local music professionals have taken it upon themselves to bring new life to early music in the Treaty City through the first Limerick Early Music Festival (LEMF) and their early music organisation H.I.P.S.T.E.R., an acronym for Historically Informed Performance Series, Teaching, Education and Research.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Joern Schneemann thought he would be helping manage logistics for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics this year. Then, the COVID-19 crisis intervened, pushing the event back to 2021.
FILE PHOTO: A employee working for the Pharma and Healthcare Logistics department at Kuehne+Nagel Group checks a container capable to be conditioned to be used for the transport of COVID-19 vaccines, in Machelen, Belgium November 17, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Instead, the head of Swiss logistics company Kuehne + Nagel’s European Expo & Events unit has been setting up vaccination centres in convention and sporting venues in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia state, the nation’s most-populous with 18 million residents.