Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas to launch as the largest cruise ship in the world

Royal Caribbean have welcomed the Symphony of the Seas cruise ship to their fleet just days before it’s maiden voyage. It is the largest cruise ship in the world, over 238 feet tall and 1,118 feet long – just 20 metres shorter than the Empire State Building. Holding up to 5,518 guests onboard at one […]

Sneak preview of world’s biggest cruise ship Symphony of the Seas

And for this Saturday only Royal Caribbean has brought the ship’s experiences to London with a pop-up Symphony of the Senses version that’s open to the public. A limited number of walk-up free tickets are available from 10am to 4pm on Saturday, February 3 for the interactive theatrical cruise experience. “Passengers” will be whisked away […]

The CEO of ’email killer’ Symphony tells employees to ‘buckle up’ and apologizes for driving colleagues ‘crazy’

Symphony Just before its third-year anniversary, the CEO of Symphony, the company heralded as the “Bloomberg killer,” is telling his employees to “buckle up” for a “thrilling” next two years. David Gurle, CEO of the secured-message platform backed by some of Wall Street’s most powerful players, sent out a memo to the company’s more than 200 employees Monday. In […]

Opera reviews: Mahler’s Symphony No 7 and Bach Reconstructed

Before getting down to the strenuous business of an evening’s conducting Mahler’s 7th Symphony and Berg’s Violin Concerto, Noseda attended a reception to celebrate the release of the LSO Live recording of Verdi’s Requiem that he had conducted at the start of the Barbican’s 2016/17 season.  It was particularly pleasing, he said, to know a […]

Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How food and culture made the human mind

Enlarge / Eating our way to world domination. (credit: Vince Smith – Flickr) In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams noted that “on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars, and so on—whilst all the dolphins […]