“High alert looks something like this,” writes David Patrick Stearns in Thursday’s (5/25) Philadelphia Inquirer. “Curtis Institute president Roberto Diaz was having a perfectly civilized interview on BBC Radio 3’s live-on-the-air show ‘In Tune’ around 6 p.m. Thursday, London time, when a warning came through one of the intercoms in the control room. A ‘suspect package” had been spotted at a nearby Caffe Nero… Minutes later—just before Diaz (also a violist) was due to play a Mozart duo with graduating violinist Kevin Lin—the announcement came through that the evacuation was for real.… The interview, which publicized the Curtis Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming European-tour performance Friday in Cadogan Hall, was wrapped up quickly but gracefully, and a recording was put on where Mozart would’ve been…. Diaz, Lin, and some fellow Curtis musicians who had played a movement from Mozart’s Flute Quartet in G just before the evacuation joined throngs of others out on the street. The incident was handled with good humor by the musicians.” Stearns has been reporting from the U.K. and Europe during the Curtis Institute of Music’s current tour.
Posted May 26, 2017
