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19th December – The playwright who led a revolution, and a classical music revolution under Waterloo Station

Monday 19th December 2011

Gramophone

Hildegard Of Bingen To Be Canonised And Admitted As A Doctor Of The Church.

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the 12th-century mystic and composer.

Superconductor

Singer’s Fall Stops Faust.

Wendy White suffers fall during Saturday evening performance.

Arts Journal: Slipped Disc

Barefoot Diva Is Dead.

RIP Cesaria Evora, the Cap Verde diva.

The Independent

In A Warren Of Tunnels Under Waterloo Station, A Revolution In Classical Music Is Stirring.

It’s not what you do, it’s the place where you do it.

New York Times

Vaclav Havel, Former Czech President, Dies At 75.

Czechs’ Dissident Conscience, Turned President.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/world/europe/vaclav-havel-dissident-playwright-who-led-czechoslovakia-dead-at-75.html?_r=1&hp