By Jacob Stockinger
Here are some usual and unusual items for The Ear’s weekly news round-up:
ITEM: Young superstar maestro Gustavo Dudamel (below) has extended his contract with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Gee, are you as surprised as The Ear is?
ITEM: Chopin (below) suffered from epilepsy as well as tuberculosis and that could explain his hallucinations:
http://news.discovery.com/history/frederic-chopin-epilepsy-110124.html
ITEM: Composer Milton Babbitt (below), the first classical composer to use a synthesizer, dies at 94:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/arts/music/30babbitt.html
ITEM: Decca is relaunched as Decca Classics:
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/decca-label-relaunches-as-decca-classics
ITEM: EMI taken over by bank:
http://www.classicalmusic.org.uk/2011/02/emi-changes-hands.html
ITEM: New World Symphony score a triumph in new Frank Gehry building (below):
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/arts/music/28new.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/arts/design/24gehry.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/arts/music/28new.html?ref=anthonytommasin
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/arts/music/31park.html?_r=1&ref=anthonytommasini
ITEM: Israeli saves Holocaust violins:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/01/27/israel.holocaust.violins/index.html
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