Musicians of the Philadelphia orchestra, currently negotiating a new contract, have asked conductor Riccasrdo Muti to come and conduct them in a benefit concert to help bridge the gap between what the orchestra is offering in a new contract, and what the musicians want. “Muti, the orchestra’s fifth music director, has returned to lead his former musicians only once since stepping down – and has never appeared at the Kimmel Center.”
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Australian Aboriginal Artists Paint New Paris Museum
“Australian indigenous artists will spend next year painting the ceilings of a new museum in Paris, the French embassy has confirmed. The Musee du Quai Branly, a museum of ancient arts and civilisations, is under construction on the banks of the Seine near the Eiffel Tower and the Australian embassy. It is expected to open in early 2006.”
Khouri Proof Faked?
Is Norma Khouri’s “proof” that she lived in Jordan during the time she said she was there in her book, a fraud? “As part of what she called her “proof” that she had lived in Jordan from 1973 to 2000, Khouri sent photocopied pages from a passport. However, a source who has seen the material told the Herald that the pages came not from Khouri’s passport, but from her husband, John Toliopoulos’s Greek passport.”