When it comes to wall-to-wall classical music glamour and excellence, Barenboim's Berlin spring festival is in a very special class indeed.
There's something nostalgic about the whole monumental, lavishly packaged, project, though, which harks back to a pre-digital time when box sets ruled the record shops, and Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic were the acme of classical music glamour.
Mr. Masur conducts Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn and Dvorak's Eighth Symphony to frame a grand entrance by classical music's latest glamour couple.
As it is, footage of JFK like this week's combines the arm's-length glamour of classical Hollywood with intimations of world-historical rupture and personal tragedy.
"We will also have A-listers at our next gig," he said, adding that it's important to "bring the glamour back" to classical music.
This second incarnation, with its sleeker look and classical though not period-accurate glamour, was, Ms. Edwards says, "informed" by the first but no replay.
And it's nice to have a bit of glamour in the world of classical music!
Makeup doesn't portray glamour only, it could be classical, representational or according to the mood of the scene.
The classic American cars that dot the streets and the eclectic mix of architecture, ranging from colonial to classical to modernist, are a throwback to the grandeur and glamour of the capital in the 1950s.
For all his Jazz Age glamour, some part of Gershwin remained a lonely classical kid — the hard-practicing pianist who had filled scrapbooks with concert programs from Cooper Union and Wanamaker's Auditorium.
