The total confusion about post-Brexit rules adds to the distress : classical musicians speak out | reviews, news & interviews The total confusion about post-Brexit rules adds to the distress : classical musicians speak out The total confusion about post-Brexit rules adds to the distress : classical musicians speak out
Ten players and administrators on the fallout in government restrictions to EU touring
by Sophia RahmanThursday, 21 January 2021
Three British musicians and an Estonian play Messiaen at the Arvo Pärt Centre outside Tallinn, July 2020: violinist Timothy Crawford, pianist and originator of this article Sophia Rahman (who was able to put this together at short notice last summer, but couldn t do so now), cellist Marcel Johannes Kits and clarinettist Matthew HuntKaupo Kikkas
d today at the age of 98.
Goodbye to Ivry.
So Ivry Gitlis is gone, at the age of 98. To say that he was a ‘character’, who will be greatly missed, would be a ridiculous under-statement…
Born in Haifa – originally named Itzaak – to Russian-Jewish parents in 1922, he must have been an amazing child prodigy. At the age of eight, he was taken to see the great Bronislaw Hubermann; Ivry always remembered that Hubermann was sitting by a lake, dangling his feet in the water. This meeting, wet feet notwithstanding, led to Ivry making his way to Paris, accompanied by his (I’m sure – one could always feel it in Ivry’s personality) adoring mother, where he met and played for Thibaud and Enesco, and was accepted into the class of Jules Boucherit at the Paris Conservatoire at age 11. It feels strange, though, to use the words ‘Ivry’ and ‘Conservatoire’ in the same sentence. There was no way that Ivry would ever have fitted into any institution. His talent, his character,