Innes Doig

Publisher and Editor. Previously Hong Kong, currently Dubai, sometimes Zürich, occasionally Kyiv. Husband and father to Ukrainians.

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Well, it took a little longer than planned but happy to have been awarded an MA in International Affairs from King’s College London. Great experience.
With a dissertation on foreign intelligence in Switzerland, anyone interested in the topic of spying in the Alps, get in touch…

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@hoyer_kat @GjaMacphee Exactly. And added to this, and by no means to dismiss how awful and pernicious the idea is, musical rivalry also played a part such as Richard Strauss’ suggestion that Schoenberg “would have been better off shovelling snow”.

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@GjaMacphee @hoyer_kat Her Weill recordings remain wonderful to this day!

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@hoyer_kat @GjaMacphee Exactly. I can just imagine. The recordings launched by Decca years ago have a particular ring for me. I’d just arrived as a music student in Saarbrücken and the local music shop had a whole promotion on. My German was pretty basic but I quickly learned the meaning of “entartet”.

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@hoyer_kat @GjaMacphee And, as Richard J, Evans has written, some of the listening booths installed proved to be a bit too popular, especially with Kurt Weill’s music.

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@rmkinnunen I think, if I were to visit a maestro’s grave, for me it would be Claudio Abbado in the beautiful Fextal in Switzerland.

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@tashecon Maybe less navel-gazing…?

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@bopanc It really is. And timely.

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@yarotrof It is really telling how this man - who, historically, has got everything wrong - starts to rage. Very telling…

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@PaulNiland He really is doing an excellent job and need promoted wherever possible.

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@MattilaKarita Fabulous. Keep going. As we all need to. They try to war us down… And, in your case, keep making beautiful music.

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@AndrewMarr9 Maybe, just maybe, go back to serious reporting and avoid endless punditry…

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@CaolanReports Excellent work. I do hope you can investigate Russia’s use/abuse of classical music sometime, from Gergiev to Netrebko.

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@hoyer_kat @DAaronovitch Looking forward very much.

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Very much looking forward to reading this important - and timely account by @hoyer_kat And thank you to @DAaronovitch for the recommendation and reminder that the book has just been published.

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@DAaronovitch @hoyer_kat Am very much looking forward to reading her new book on Weimar.

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@MattilaKarita I would wish a good morning to anyone who sings so gloriously and simultaneously supports Ukraine. Alas, there are not that many around…

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@banafsaji As a Scot who has lived in Hong Kong, there is also an Aberdeen there. But I assume they moved from the cold and rainy one…😉

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@CaolanReports Congratulations on all that you do.

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@banafsaji He really is a fabulous guy!