GREED AND THE RECORDING COMPANIES

A few weeks ago the US Federal Trade Commission announced the end of minimum pricing rules that it says artificially boosted the prices to consumers of CD’s. Now the recording companies are fuming over the way the announcement was made. Seems they think the feds made them sound greedy. Hmmmm. – Salon

ORCHESTRA OFFICIAL APOLOGIZES

Last week the president of the Winnipeg Symphony suggested in a newspaper interview that outgoing music director Bramwell Tovey had spent the orchestra into the ground and that it would take years to dig out. Tovey threatened to sue, and now the WSO official has apologized. – CBC