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Classical music new clips: Father of piano group The 5 Browns is guilty of sexually abusing 3 daughters. Riccardo Muti heals and tours. Marin Alsop goes Brazilian. UW composer Laura Schwendinger gets a Carnegie Hall premiere. Flutes in space. And another Grammy post-mortem.
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By Jacob Stockinger
It has been a busy week for news from the world of classical music, with the news running the gamut from the trivial to the sordid and the extra-terrestrial.
ITEM: Keith Brown (below top), 55, the father of the bestselling brothers and sisters piano group The 5 Browns (below bottom), has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing the three daughters when they were young:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41647449/ns/today-entertainment/
ITEM: After becoming ill last fall, then recently fainting and falling off the podium and breaking his jaw and then winning a Grammy, touring is another chapter in the ongoing drama of Riccardo Muti (below) and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra:
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/3821059-421/muti-to-take-cso-on-road-next-season.html
ITEM: Sir Colin Davis is maestro collapse No. 2:
ITEM: UW composer Laura Schwendinger (below) will premiere and perform her own work at Carnegie Hall on March 4:
http://www.news.wisc.edu/18953
ITEM: Marin Alsop (below) takes on a conducting post in Sao Paulo Brazil as well as Baltimore:
ITEM: Playing flute music in space – does that make it spacey?
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/15/133780067/flutes-in-space-astronaut-plays-aboard-space-station
ITEM: Indie classical labels at the Grammys? Read NPR’s Tom Huizenga (below) on the Grammy awards for classical music. (The Ear’s posted p both nominees and winners on Tuesday. You can scroll back or find it in the search engine):
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