It’s hard to believe they still have sub-editors on the Times newsdesk when a subhead like the one below goes up on the newspaper’s website. Hopefully, they will catch it before it gets into print.
To describe Schoenberg as classical is absurd enough. But a songwriter?
As for the story itself, we reported it three days ago on slippedisc.com.
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