Any year brings its share of joy, sadness, triumphs, tragedies and just plain weirdnesses. We journalists are there to document them all. And yet, we enjoy a good story, or feel emotion at a heart-wrenching one, as much as anyone. So, in looking back at 2013, these are what spring to mind. At a time of political and economic upheaval (for all that various experts speak of an economic recovery starting to take hold), sadly, many of the ones that ran are of a rather melancholy vein.
Here, then, are ten that already seem like the most important...
1) The exciting one: The news that Sir Simon Rattle MIGHT be returning to the U.K., following his Berlin Philharmonic stint by taking up Valery Gergiev's discarded mantle at the London Symphony Orchestra. Rattle and this orchestra--in fact, Rattle and pretty much any one of his native British bands--tend to be an electric combination.
2) The horrifying one: It is hard to convey the general feeling of repulsion and shock that news of North Korea's assassination of orchestra members caused.
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