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 Minnesota Orchestra is not afraid of the unfamiliar. The Chilean-Italian conductor Paolo Bortolameolli outs on Venezuelan-Chilean composer Miguel Farías’ Retratos Australes, Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 3, and First Associate Concertmaster Susie Park performs Mexican-born Gabriela […]
The Cleveland Orchestra has added three batons to its pack as music director Franz Welser-Möst prepares to step down in 2027. Taichi Fukumura joins immediately as assistant conductor, James Feddeck as principal conductor of the […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Lukas Foss was a classmate of Leonard Bernstein’s at the Curtis Institute and a lifelong friend, though never an equal. While Bernstein blazed to national glory in his […]
