Seventh Heaven

By Richard Mineards   |   April 19, 2018
Pianist Sir Andras Schiff impresses (photo by Nadia F. Romanini)

Hungarian pianist Sir Andras Schiff, making his seventh CAMA appearance since 1985, mesmerized with his Master Series performance at the Lobero.

The concert, the penultimate show in the popular series, featured 65-year-old Schiff, who is appearing with the New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony this season, on his Bosendorfer grand playing works by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Brahms, and Bach’s enchanting English Suite No. 6 in D minor.

We can’t wait until he makes his eighth visit.

Nothing’s Sacred

The late Zsa Zsa Gabor, who died in December 2016, aged 99, is taking one last suitably flashy curtain call.

Prince Frederic von Anhalt, 74, her ninth and surviving husband, sold off more than 1,0000 possessions at the weekend.

Up for grabs were a diamond necklace spelling “Dah-ling”, an ornate gold-painted Steinway grand piano, plunging evening gowns that once exhibited one of Hollywood’s most famous cleavages, a mountainous pile of monogrammed Louis Vuitton luggage, and even her prescription pill bottles.

I would often have tea with Zsa Zsa at her Bel-Air mansion, formerly owned by Howard Hughes and Elvis Presley, dancing afterward in her Moulin Rouge discotheque, named after one of her more famous films.

Fond memories.

Royal Report

Prince Harry is keeping the memory of his late mother, Princess Diana, alive for his nuptials to Meghan Markle, 36, next month.

Prince Charles’s 33-year-old youngest son is close to his uncle, Earl Spencer, 53, and aunts, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, 3, Lady Jane Fellowes, 61, and their children and wants them all to be part of the celebrations at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor.

His cousins, including Dolce & Gabbana model Lady Kitty Spencer, 27, have nabbed the “golden ticket” for the intimate all-night party at nearby Frogmore House, which will have 200 guests.

And, of course, I will be doing the commentary on the glittering occasion for the ABC affiliate, KEYT-TV.

Stay tuned.

Sightings: Singer Peter Noone and wife Mireille noshing at Olio e Limone…Oscar winner Natalie Portman sashaying down State Street…Actor Christopher Lloyd at the Granada

 

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