“Dutoit, the orchestra’s principal conductor and artistic director, had been due to step down in October 2019. Following an emergency board meeting, however, his departure has been brought forward and he will leave immediately. In December, three opera singers and a musician accused Dutoit of forcing himself upon them – which he denied.”
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Just How Many Dimensions Do We Exist In?
“Unlike mathematicians, who are at liberty to play in the field of ideas, physics is bound to nature, and at least in principle, is allied with material things. Yet all this raises a liberating possibility, for if mathematics allows for more than three dimensions, and we think mathematics is useful for describing the world, how do we know that physical space is limited to three? Although Galileo, Newton and Kant had taken length, breadth and height to be axiomatic, might there not be more dimensions to our world?”
Gavin Stamp, Architectural Preservationist Who Pioneered ‘Young Fogeyism,’ Dead At 69
In campaigns as a public figure and in print under the pen name Piloti, he led battles to save historic buildings from the wrecking ball and against postwar architecture and urban planning. He was perhaps best known for championing the preservation of the red telephone booth.