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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