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Tonight Baltimore Symphony Orchestra The world premiere of Composer in Residence James Lee III’s Concerto for Orchestra (an energetic homage to the city), as well as Beethoven‘s 5th piano concerto and Smetana‘s Vltava. Also a farewell to 3 musicians, one who had served 55 years!

Final scientific event of my time in Canada/USA: brief visit and Glycobiology Interest Group seminar at Johns Hopkins. Thanks to Natasha Zachara & Ron Schnaar!

Amtrak arriving in Baltimore, for me the destination is Newark Airport!

Tonight Wiener Staatsoper Wagner’s #Siegfried with Andreas Schager in the title role. Possibly I’ve never heard such amusement in the audience at some ogestures and text during a Siegfried performance! Jordan is also a guarantee of quality as a conductor, pity we lose him as MD!

I recently visited Hiroshima, and stood at the epicenter of a city scarred by the unimaginable horror caused by a single nuclear bomb dropped in 1945. What I saw, the stories I heard, and the haunting sadness that remains, will stay with me forever.

Tonight Wiener Konzerthaus Lukas Sternath as „rising star“ Gubaidulina, Brahms, Kopatchinskaja (in person for the Austrian premiere) & Liszt. 👏 👏 Yes, someone’s cellphone rang just after the Brahms finished! And the third PatKop piece involved playing the piano with the arms!

Tonight Wiener Staatsoper Richard Strauss‘ Rosenkavalier in the wonderful Schenk production! Günther Groissböck as Ochs was as super-slimy as the role should be! But the other major roles were also well performed! Bravo 👏

People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. nytimes.com/2025/06/13/tec…

Endzeitstimmung Wiener Staatsoper We experienced the end of the world tonight - Wagner‘s Götterdämmerung! Andreas Schager is perhaps the best Siegfried I’ve ever heard live! Bravo 👏

Program | SERMACS/SWRM - Chemistry In The Sunshine October 26-29th in DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando at SeaWorld, in Orlando. Featuring one symposium in the field of Carbohydrate Chemistry coming up: Glycomaterials for a Sustainable Future sermacs2025.org/program.html

Ohne digitale ID, kein Zugang zu sozialen Medien? orf.at/stories/339702…

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Alfred Brendel (1931–2025), a quiet colossus and supreme interpreter from Beethoven to Schoenberg. His extraordinary legacy will endure through his recordings, words and influence. Our thoughts are with Maria and the family.

Big Brother - in Russia 🇷🇺 Under a new mandate set to take effect in September 2025, all smartphones, tablets, and similar devices sold in Russia will be required to come preloaded with a state-backed digital identity platform. ift.tt/HRFmGcT interfax.com/newsroom/top-s…

RSC Carbohydrate Group Winter Meeting 2025 The RSC Carbohydrate Group is organising its annual winter meeting in York this September (22nd – 23rd). This one and half day symposium will showcase the state-of-the-art research in carbohydrate chemistry. rsc.org/events/detail/…

Fine new recording of Philip Glass Violin Concerto #1 music.apple.com/at/album/phili… #morninglistening

The 34th edition of JGM takes place in Lille, France, co-organized by the French Institute of Structural and Functional Glycobiology (UGSF, University of Lille – CNRS) & the Belgian Center for Medical Biotechnology (University of Gent – VIB). 12th-14th October 2025

Carolabrücke, Dresden: Stadtrat beschließt nach neun Monaten Neubau – Trümmer sollen bis Jahresende beseitigt sein, Neubau vielleicht 2030 fertig. via WELT welt.de/wirtschaft/art…

Are you researching new developments in glycobiology? Submit your work to our new special collection on Glycobiology in the Biochemical Journal guest edited by Natasha Zachara. We welcome original research papers, review articles and opinion pieces ow.ly/jauf50W9ApC

The result of regime change and Western intervention … the remaining & shrinking Christian communities in the Middle East are targeted by terrorists.

My last opera visit of the season Wiener Staatsoper Tchaikovsky‘s Pique Dame (Пиковая дама, Queen of Spades) with Anna Netrebko Anna Netrebko and (separated husband) Yusif Eyvazov Yusif Eyvazov in the main two roles. Whatever one thinks of some aspects of the production, an