1 Essential stuuf: The Jonathan Franzen essays, reviewed by Steve Donoghue in OLM
http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/book-review-farther-away/
2 Kissin plays…. the Barber sonata!
3 An oral history of Philip Glass
http://www.thefader.com/2012/05/01/work-in-progress-an-oral-history-of-philip-glass/?single_paged=1
4 How Anne Bolyen lost her head (more about this in Hilary Mantel’s new novel)
5 Yundi Li, newly rejoined to DG, shows how he won the 2000 Chopin Competition
6 Live Sunday concert from the Sage, in Gateshead
http://thesagegateshead.org/event/classic-fm20999/
Enjoy.
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