Dance
Ismene Brown
Thank you, Romania, for ballerina Alina Cojocaru, pianist Dinu Lipatti, sopranos Angela Gheorghiu and Ileana Cotrubas, sculptor Constantin Brancusi, tennis player Ilie Nastase, playwright Eugène Ionesco, conductor Sergiu Celibidache, actors Edward G Robinson and Johnny Weissmuller among other Romanians who have added so much artistry and entertainment to modern life.Which came strongly to mind at Cojocaru’s Sadler’s Wells gala in aid of her charity supporting hospices for the terminally ill in her native land (as she explained to me in our interview last week). Romania has become a trigger Read more ...