As I do after every storm, I looked out the bedroom window to thank my favourite tree. Except my tree wasn’t there. “Oh no. Ohno ohno,” I whispered.

Back for a 7th season, the Stella Musica Festival, under the leadership of its Artistic Director and founder Katarzyna Musiał, aims to promote the achievements of women in music.

I like to say that I am a “traditional” Jew, meaning I come from a long line of atheists or Apikoras, Barbara Moser says.

Grief-stricken by the successive deaths of his first three children within just a few months, Dvořák wrote a sublime Stabat Mater that is recognised as a masterpiece of musical art for choir and orchestra.

The heartbreak, the terror, the loss of children, soldiers 20 or 21 or 44 years old. And people somehow go on living.