Melbourne Symphony Dumps Chief Conductor

The orchestra has terminated maestro Oleg Caetani’s five-year contract one year early – and just 3 weeks after releasing a 2010 season brochure with Caetani’s name on it. His relations with management “are reported to have soured. … Audiences had tired of Caetani’s championing of the 20th-century Russian conductor [sic] Dmitri Shostakovich.”