VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on 24 February 2022, the day the world woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. A fifty minute video which also features Caitríona O'Leary and Eric Fraad discussing their new film Island of Saints, and pays tribute to Joseph Horovitz, Malcolm Troup and Maria Nockin.
PROVOCATIVE THOUGHTS:
The late Patric Standford may have written these short pieces deliberately to provoke our feedback. If so, his success is reflected in the rich range of readers' comments appearing at the foot of most of the pages.
FROM ROME: Keep in touch with the Italian opera and classical music scene by reading Giuseppe Pennisi's regular reports.
Japanese composer Toshiaki Tsushima was born on 22 May 1936 in Okayama Prefecture and graduated from the Arts Department of Tokyo's Nihon University. He was known mostly for his film scores, such as The War in Space, Shogun's Samurai and The Fall of Ako Castle.
Toshiaki Tsushima died on 25 November 2013, aged seventy-seven.