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BBC Radio 3 has conducted a national audience poll about "favourite soundtracks" and John Williams' Star Wars main theme came in at number one.

On November 26, Alice Herz-Sommer will turn 110. Just as for a century before, she is practicing the piano every day. The oldest pianist and Holocaust survivor is now the subject of a new documentary, The Lady in Number 6.

New works, low prices, great stars — Beverly Sills, Plácido Domingo, and Norman Treigle among them — I remember fondly New York City Opera, which has provided an important alternative to the Metropolitan Opera for 70 years, just as significant as the Komische Oper in Berlin or the English National Opera in London.

There is no better demonstration of what dedication and hard work can accomplish than the continuing saga

If all goes well, an opera review says "Mr. X conducted the orchestra well (or otherwise)." What of the people of the orchestra? "If you prick them, do they not bleed? If you tickle them, do they not laugh? If you poison them, do they not die? And if you wrong them, shall they not revenge?"

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