The Brazilian Alex Klein, dismissed yesterday as principal oboe by the Calgary Philharmonic, has issued a Yotube video describing his struggles with the onset of dystonia. ‘I lost just about everything a person can lose,’ he says.
Klein was fired for allegedly publishing inappropriate messages on social media.
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The managing editor of Britain’s Classic FM is to be Head of ABC Classic and ABC Jazz at the Australian national broadcaster. Philip Noyce says: ‘It’s a fantastic moment to be joining the ABC… With […]
There has been much chatter of late on this site and elsewhere on the predominance of Finns in the global podium. From a nation that conducts intense conversations chiefly with its shoelaces, this phenomenon is […]
The Komische Oper Berlin congratulates its music director James Gaffigan on his wedding to Marta Wasilewicz. Nice to report some happy news, for once. The post Maestro marries appeared first on Slippedisc.
-5.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Cross-cultural cross currents: Jasdeep Singh Degun with Fantasia Orchestra in Terry Riley's iconic In C performed by string orchestra, piano, sitar and tabla at Smith Square Hall")
