– on the state of Canada’s bookselling industry will investigate disappearance of independent booksellers. – CBC
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TORONTO SYMPHONY settles strike with musicians
Terms include a 30 percent raise, making the orchestra the highest-paid in Canada. But about that troubling multi-million-dollar deficit… – CBC
FALLING ASLEEP IN BERLIN AND SALZBURG
Personnel changes in top jobs in musical capitals portends a future not worth waiting for. – London Telegraph
- The new man in Salzburg – New York Times 12/8/99
DIGITAL MUSIC over the internet –
– will account for 80 percent of music sales by 2005. But it won’t be cheaper, says one recording exec – it’ll cost you more. – Wired
PAGANINI DISCOVERY
Manuscripts for twelve violin and guitar sonatas by Paganini have been found in Italy. They were written “with teaching in mind.” They’ll be auctioned in Rome next week. – Sydney Morning Herald
BIRTHDAYS FUNERALS & COCKTAIL PARTIES
Sixty-four year-old Daniel Hays is a pianist who plays in grocery stores, at parties, wherever. Never had a big career. Now he’s ready to perform with an orchestra, so he put an ad in a Baltimore paper: “SENIOR CITIZEN ready to perform the Rubinstein D-minor Piano Concerto but needs an orchestra. Can you help?” – Baltimore Sun
TRAVIATA EXTRAVAGANZA
June made-for-TV $10 million production in Paris will be beamed to 125 countries for 1.5 billion people. – (AP) Cleveland Plain Dealer
ENDANGERED SPECIES
New report says that regional theater in the UK is in trouble. Access has been encouraged over quality with the result that in a few years there could be “a crop of new lottery-funded theatres with nothing to put in them because local authorities cannot afford to run them.” BBC
EXTENDING SHAKESPEARE
Jonathan Moscone, SF ex-mayor’s son, is appointed director of the California Shakespeare Festival. Comes from DallasTheatre Center. San Francisco Examiner
MUSICAL TRUST
One of this fall’s biggest hits on Broadway, the remake of “Kiss Me Kate” is a classic. Lois and Arthur Elias were entrusted with rights to the show by their close friend Bella Spewack, who wrote the musical’s book with her husband, Sam, in 1948. The Eliases have been fiercely protective of their charge. New York Times