Albert Ehrnrooth

Journalist, photographer and social commentator.

Month: July 2016

BBC PROMS IS WHERE GIANTS MEET, MAHLER/HAITINK

PROM 18, 29 July 2016, MAHLER 3 with LSO conducted by Bernard Haitink Bernard Haitink’s appearances at the Proms are one step ahead of his age. 
At 87 the Dutchman has just conducted his 88th performance at the BBC Proms.  […]

HAIL TSAR BRYN TERFEL, PROM 2

Boris Godunov  M. Mussorgsky         Saturday 16 July 2016       Prom 2 Have concert performances of operas become better and more popular over the last decade or have I just learned to appreciate them? The original 1869 version of Mussorgsky’s Boris […]

PAINTING AT THE TAIL END OF THE EARTH

Georgia O’Keeffe retrospective at Tate Modern (until 30 October 2016) Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1 is still the most expensive work of art by a woman artist sold at auction. It fetched $44.4 million at Sotheby’s in 2014 […]

CHELSEA BEATEN BY HAMPTON

Year on year you struggle to purchase the tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show. Right? When you’ve finally made it to that most prestigious floral show in the English social calendar,  you wish you could crane your neck like a […]