A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS interference yesterday, with Russia suspected of being behind the attack.
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A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS interference yesterday, with Russia suspected of being behind the attack.
It’s the final event of Star Moments (Stjernestunder) at #tivolicph, and it’s another treat: Augustin Hadelich solo recital 😎 www.tivoli.dk/program/somm...
I’ll bring you one the next time you’re in Copenhagen or I (finally manage to) visit the Oslo Opera 🤗
I warmly recommend the GRUMS container for standard size French press - it’s revolutionised my kitchen sink because far less grounds now end up in the sink. In Denmark, it’s available in Kop & Kande-shops. Website: https://gru.ms/
Mark Pandora to sing Winterreise in Aarhus - and I’ll have to miss it 🥸 www.musikhuset.dk/kalender/win...
Bestanden af Danmarks største rovdyr falder #dkvid #dkforsk
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My musical week has been a journey back through time. Sunday was Wagner (🤩), Tuesday was Rachmaninov & Dvorak (and Rossini), Thursday was Beethoven (😍), and today was Bach/Vivaldi/Händel/Ortiz
I’ll hear wonderful Michala Petri play Bach, Corelli, Vivaldi, and others with Lars Hannibal and Frank Reinicke at #tivolicph in less than two hours 😎 #classicalmusic #earlymusic #renaissance https://www.tivoli.dk/program/sommerklassisk/hannibal-og-petri
This is Zaporizhzhia after last night's russian attack. Burnt homes, destroyed cars. 25 injured and 1 killed.
Jeg ser ingen skænderier men dog meningsudvekslinger her på BlueSky. Om det er blevet bedre på X, ved jeg ikke, for jeg lukkede min konto tidligere i år efter stærkt dalende kvalitet på dén platform.
The last day of my summer vacation, and I’m at home with #BerlinPhil thanks to their Digital Concert Hall 😎 Digital Concert Hall: Season opening 2025: Kirill Petrenko conducts Brahms, Zimmermann and Schumann www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/5...
On the ruins of a bombed-out apartment building in Kyiv, a dog searches for his human. Russia murdered 23 people here yesterday, including 4 children
Iben Maria Zeuthen får ordet: 🌍🔥❄️
Ja! Jeg forlod Spotify for længe siden og Tidal er SÅ meget bedre! Jeg bruger dog Idagio til klassisk musik.
My season 25-26 with Danish National Symphony Orchestra (#DRSO) starts this evening with (kind of) repeat of their #BBCProms debut: Beethoven 9! https://www.drkoncerthuset.dk/kalender/2025/luisi-beethovens-9/luisi-beethovens-9/
⚡️Denmark summons top US diplomat over reports of influence operations in Greenland. Denmark's Foreign Ministry summoned the United States charge d'affaires in Copenhagen on Aug. 27 over reports that U.S. citizens were running covert influence campaigns in Greenland.
Anyway, I had to skip last year’s visit by the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, but they’re supposed to be great. I’ve heard Liu several times, and I usually enjoy his playing. This time, it’ll be Rakhmaninov, though.
Back in the bird site, I would know if specific (local) contacts would be here with me, but they didn’t migrate to the sky, so we’ll see if they’ll show up.
Tonight’s programme for me is Gstaad Festival Orchestra with Bruce Liu at Denmark’s finest symphonic hall🤩 www.musikhuset.dk/kalender/bru...
Today is UA Independence Day. Z dnem nezalezhnosti!
I’m in Esbjerg for opening of chapter 4 of #DenNyOpera Ring cycle. Tribe Bastrup Møller is Brunnhilde again, Cornelia Beskow & Jens Søndergaard are Gutrune & Gunther, Runi Brattaberg is Hagen (chill!) and young Anders Kampmann is Siegfried.
Jovist, men deres business case er sådan lidt “noget andet end DR og Berlingske Medier, uden at blive JPPOL”🤷🏻♀️
Hm. Har de ikke hørt om Zetland? 🙄
Vovchansk, Kharkiv region. It was a cozy town of 17,000 people. Russia didn’t just bomb it - they erased it. What’s left is dead, empty shell that will never be rebuilt.
Interesting! The 2026 Léonie Sonning music prize goes to Kirill Petrenko (deservedly), but he's chosen the DRSO for the concert as very few conductors do. Anyway, the award concert is on 13. July 226: www.sonningmusik.dk/kirill-petre...
Working from home today, so had to make my own morning coffee. Which means making coffee before you've had your morning coffee.
Ukraine is under russian drone attack! The alert is spreading, and air defense work reported in Kyiv!
Lang læsning, men i den korte udgave lige til at stemme for: Med "længst muligt i eget kvarter" får vi flere blandede nabolag med flere aldergrupper, der hjælper hinanden bevidst og ubevidst og dermed frigiver resourcer langt mere effektivt end "længst muligt i eget hjem". #dkpol
Join me and other fans tonight at Tivoli for Schubert performed by wonderful Elisabeth Leonskaja 🤩 - pick your seats here: www.tivoli.dk/program/somm...
Leonskaja plays Schubert in Tivoli tonight, but the large hall is nowhere near sold out😨
Just back from André Schuen performing #Winterreise with gusto at #TivoliGardens. What a change from last year’s recital! Bravo👏
Russian drones over Kharkiv right now ‼️
Russia does this for many reasons, but one of them is to show that Putin owns Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
Russia bombed several cities overnight, murdering civilians. Murdering children! Sleeping in their own home! The White House: but suit?!
Hvorfor blev slaget om Gettysburg så skelsættende for den amerikanske borgerkrig? Det ser vi nærmere på sammen med bogaktuelle Philip Christian Ulrich, der gæster os til en samtale om både krigen, slaget, rytterstatuer og en amerikansk befolkning, som helt frem til i dag er delt på midten.
Nogle gange er det rart til en afveksling at slippe de højaktuelle konflikter og dykke ned i historien. For nogle dage siden havde @anderspucknielsen.dk og jeg besøg af militærhistoriker og USA-ekspert Philip Chr. Ulrich til en spændende snak om den amerikanske borgerkrig og slaget ved Gettysburg.
Det var en fornøjelse at have jer med i ørerne i går😎
Russia killed at least nine people during a wave of attacks on dozens of Ukrainian cities and towns hours before a high-stakes summit at the White House featuring President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders.
Hvad er værst: Plov skærer centimeter af gravhøj forår og efterår, eller soldater skal grave, hvor de får besked på? Gravhøj tager skade begge gange, ikke?
He was fantastic in #Priscilla, making it clear just now perfectly normal his character was.
#Glyptoteket is an art museum that hosts #chambermusic recitals Sunday at noon in August & September with high quality Danish and visiting musicians. The hall looks impossible but is great for acoustic music, such as #classicalmusic. Learn about it at glyptoteket.dk😎
Vi mangler danske myndigheder og firmaer her i skyen, og de kommer ikke, før vi er “tilstrækkeligt mange”, der poster på dansk. Så jo flere, jo bedre. #dkpol
I attended a wonderful recital with Katrine Gislinge at #Glyptoteket today - Music by Schumann, Chopin🤩, and of course her husband Bent Sørensen. Here she is before Schumann:
Destroyed cemetery in the outskirts of Kharkiv. Russia attacked it with glide bombs earlier today, injuring 3 people.
Lille studie sår tvivl: Flere tror, at de ikke kan tåle gluten uden at have en diagnose #dkvid #dkforsk
Good analysis of why we keep travelling by air over trains in Europe: europeancorrespondent.com/r/subsidised...
Enig, men folk lærer ikke at bruge andre projektioner, og de ser kun flade kort (G. og andre inklusive) på små skærme og får derfor ikke nogen kontekst. Jeg er slet ikke imod Mercator, men man skal forstå, hvad det er man ser.
Men det er jo derfor, vi skal tale om det og bruge forskellige (flade) kort for at vi forskellige vinkler på den runde jord. Hvis vi kun ser kortet med Europa i fokus, bliver Afrika relativt mindre - og Grønland helt absurdt formet.
#BBCNews - Global plastic talks collapse as countries remain deeply divided www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ukraine is under russian missile attack right now ‼️ air raid alert everywhere. Explosion reported in Chernivtsi region
The book 'Russia At War' was published in Danish in February. It is now available in an English pdf version. The contributors are primarily from the Royal Danish Defence College - @forsvarsakademiet.bsky.social. My chapter is about the battle in the information space. www.fak.dk/globalassets...
It's another hot and humid day in Copenhagen, and outside a bakery in my street, the pigeons try to cool off by getting off the sidewalk. And yes, they wait for breadcrumbs....
Det lød grangiveligt som dengang, der var alarm på lufthavnen i Kastrup & to x F16 kom drønende over byen. Men godt, der ikke var alarm denne gang, går jeg ud fra.
I just signed up for @eurcorrespond.bsky.social after a strong recommendation in Danish media @zetland.dk. I look forward to more insights to what's going on across Europe 😎
Tak for endnu en god artikel! Jeg er enig i analysen af Putins hensigter, og jeg frygter mødet i aften i Anchorage...
Efter Anden Verdenskrig trak sejrherrerne nye grænser på europakortet. Nu drømmer Vladimir Putin om at gøre det samme. Han har ventet i 25 år på den chance, der nu titter frem i Alaska. Med @sondergaard.bsky.social og Claus Mathiesen www.berlingske.dk/internationa...
Jeg ved ikke lige, hvad der gik galt i første version af den artikel, men det handler jo om basen i Letland 🙄
Yep - and played with intensity and flair. Amazing recital🤩
Vengerov & Osetinskaya debating the order of the 5 encores after a glorious recital at Charlottenborg on a hot evening, typical of #CopenhagenSummerFestival😎
Programme says Franck (Sonata), Tchaikovsky (Souvenir d’un lieu cher), Ravel (Tzigane). Yum!
I made it to the sold-out recital with Maxim Vengerov & Polina Osetinskaya - it’s #CopenhagenSummerFestival & stiflingly hot as usual 😎
Lillian Gjerulf Kretz, Søren Brostrøm, Ghita Nørby og Ulrich Thomsen er blandt de mindst 15 kendte danskere, der misbruges i internationalt svindelnummer om mirakelkure. Forbrugerrådet Tænk kalder svindelnummeret for “en alvorlig og grov sag” #dkforbrug #smdk www.tjekdet.dk/fup-og-spam/...
Russia announces its next war crime
Cello sonata, not concerto, obviously! And beautiful it was 🤗
Among several highlights at #KammermusikPåLundsgaard was the Friday night recital at the church with Jonathan Swensen playing Bach cello concerto 1 right in front of me 🤩 #classicalmusic
Guess which one of these vehicles has a motor that prevents it from going too fast for the safety of others?
Jeg har lige set denne udstilling og er (stort set) enig. Især opstilling af Flyvende Hval og Øjet af Aka Høegh er intet mindre end fremragende og rørende på samme tid.
"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."
In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll talk about engagement farming: a cynical social media tactic to rack up likes, shares, and comments. From rage farming to AI-powered outrage factories, engagement farming is reshaping online discourse and turning division into profit. 1/23
Sprogforsker: Både min datter og Frank Hvam laver fejlen med at blande de to udtryk sammen
I'm back home after a glorious weekend of fabulous #chambermusic. Reality hit me when a wasp decided to sip from my glass of (non-alcoholic) beer 🤷♀️
Et tre år gammelt videoklip har vist sig at være næsten profetisk. I klippet forklarer en garvet politiker fra Estland, hvordan Vladimir Putin har tænkt sig at snøre de vestlige ledere i spillet om Ukraine. Min analyse: www.berlingske.dk/internationa...
#chambermusic #classicalmusic www.kammermusikfestival.dk/en/
I’ve travelled to Kerteminde for Chamber Music at Lundsgaard with Trio con BRIO Copenhagen and international friends, including Marmel Quartet & Elisabet Leonskaja😎
Jeg håber at få hørt første afsnit en af dagene.
Læs denne rystende og velskrevne artikel af @andreykazankov.bsky.social om ukrainske børn fra de besatte zoner og Save Ukraines arbejde med at redde dem: www.weekendavisen.dk/udland/boern...
It's time for action against plastic pollution. ⚠️ Only 9% of plastic is recycled. ⚠️ If current trends continue, plastic production will triple by 2060. Today, a new negotiation begins toward a global agreement to end plastic pollution. Our priorities for the agreement ↓
Jeg har spist på kroen 1 gang og kan bekræfte, at Restorff gjorde det til en helt særlig oplevelse, der gik videre end blot (fabelagtig) mad og drikke. Ære være hans minde!
First recital for me this summer & it’s the opening of this year’s #CopenhagenSummerFestival with two young musicians 😎
Jeg blev nødt til at læse artiklen for at få bekræftet, at det ikke er dét Kensington, men en amerikansk by🙄
Fremragende analyse af Puk Damsgaard i @weekendavisen.dk - for ja, der er en løsning på problemerne. Men det er ikke den, der tales om. https://www.weekendavisen.dk/udland/den-palaestinensiske-parentes
Got a message from the Arena di Verona mainly interesting for people in NYC. Carmen to be screened live at Bryant Park, August 3 at 5pm 😎
Just received email from Stage+ that the streaming of tomorrow’s much anticipated recital is “postponed” due to “circumstances beyond our control” 😳 https://stage-plus.com/video/live_concert_9HKNCPA3DTN66PBIEHFJ2C1J6S
Some bon-Danish colleagues yesterday were talking about how strange it is on Denmark that you can always see he horizon, there are no mountains in the background really. That's definitely only partly true, but on the other hand we have incredible clouds. #Cloudscapes
Jeg har faktisk lige købt et par aktier, så jeg håber virkeligt ikke, det går som med Nokia🤞
Excited for 'Maria Stuarda' at Salzburg Festival! An opera by Donizetti showcasing the intense clash between Mary Stuart and Elizabeth I. Expect an evening of thrilling drama, powerful emotions, and exceptional vocal performances. Directed by Ulrich Rasche with music by Antonello Manacorda. 🎵
I had the extreme pleasure of Waltraud Meier in Parsifal in 2016 (Staatsoper Berlin), and she lifted that production to the rafters. Wonderful, wonderful! And it was her second-to-last Kundry, even!
OK, even better 😎
I’m in Salzburg through Medici tonight for Maria Stuarda, an opera I saw for the very first time at #kglteater in February this year.
What a cast!
Jeg har ikke læst artiklen endnu, men er grundlæggende enig med dit opslag.
During a missile strike on Kyiv, two schoolgirls and their mother were killed. Their school announced that Alina and Anastasia Humeniuk died along with their mother. They were internally displaced people from Donbas who had sought refuge in the capital. Russia found them and killed them there.
(Jeg har kun været passager i helikoptere, men det er en skøn måde at blive transporteret på !)
Medmindre jeg får certifikat før dig😎
Congress has not appropriated the substantial funds this would require nor does this have the legally required approval of the Commission of Fine Arts (which must approve architectural changes to the White House among other properties).
Read the story of our #tacticalurbanism project in the heart of #kyiv #ukraine colvilleandersen.medium.com/the-unexpect...
Trump's sabre rattling won't rattle Putin! Read my latest analysis on Substack 👉 open.substack.com/pub/jacobkaa...
Sigh. Of course Apple didn’t alert me to updates to my watch or phone while they were charging earlier today🙄 . Get your i-things updated while they’re plugged in, please!
Venner! Jeg skal bruge jeres skrald! Eller... måske ikke skrald som sådan, men er der nogen af jer, der ligger inde med en gammel stereoforstærker med phono-indgang, som alligevel bare står og samler støv?