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Richard Hickox, 1948-2008

Wednesday, 26 November 2008 14:21 Gene Gaudette

The Birmingham Post reports the very sad news of British maestro Richard Hickox's sudden death.

Rozhdestvensky walks out on BSO

Sunday, 23 November 2008 12:10 Gene Gaudette

Jeremy Eichler has the details at BoGlo. Sounds like Maestro Rozhdestvensky needs a tougher artist rep for his US gigs, but that does not excuse the BSO for the shabby manner in which they handled the promotion of arguably one of the greatest elder statesmen of the podium.

Harassing a National Treasure

Monday, 20 October 2008 22:24 Gene Gaudette

Composer John Adams, arguably America's most prominent symphonic and opera composer, is routinely being harassed by immigration officials.

"Anna Magdalena, ein schwindel!"

Friday, 10 October 2008 10:27 Gene Gaudette

Reuters' Pauline Askin reports on an Australian music scholar who claims that Bach's second wife wrote a number of works attributed to him.

The Donald Rosenberg Affair

Saturday, 27 September 2008 15:31 Gene Gaudette

Donald Rosenberg, a music critic who writes for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and arguably one of the half dozen or so best such critics in the country, was removed from his regular beat, covering the Cleveland Orchestra, earlier this week.

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Richard Hickox, 1948-2008

Rozhdestvensky walks out on BSO

Harassing a National Treasure

"Anna Magdalena, ein schwindel!"

The Donald Rosenberg Affair

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