Berg music
One of the reasons people flock to Schloss Elmau at Easter, apart from the food and the alpine air, is the music. Take today's programme, for instance. In the afternoon, Constantin Floros will talk about the "secret messages" in Alban Berg's music, and tonight Berg's works will feature alongside those of Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann in performances by the Keller Quartet with Cristina Barbuti and the superb Christian Tetzlaff.
It is with heavy hearts that we shall leave Schloss Elmau.
Diarist of the day: Barbara Castle, 21 April 1968"Ted [her husband] and I were sitting by the telly listening to the six o'clock news when there suddenly was Enoch Powell, white-faced and tight-lipped, delivering his Wolverhampton speech on immigration. As we listened to his relentless words -- 'I see the Tiber running with blood' -- intense depression gripped us. I knew he had taken the lid of Pandora's box and that race relations in Britain would never be the same again. This is certainly a historic turning point, but in which direction? I believe he has helped to make a race war, not only in Britain but perhaps in the world, inevitable."
