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By Jacob Stockinger
It’s really a mixed bag this week when it comes to classical music news.
Must be the change of seasons!
ITEM: Chicago Symphony Orchestra maestro Riccardo Muti has won a million-dollar prize:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/us-riccardomuti-idUSTRE72F9PI20110316
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-riccardo-muti-prize-20110316,0,7314863.story
ITEM: The Aspen Festival and School turn to Atlanta Symphony’s Robert Spano (below) for a new director:
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/robert-spano-headed-to-aspen
ITEM: Americans are trying to import Venezuela’s famed “el sistema” music education system that produced Gustavo Dudamel (below):
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/15/134567922/the-road-to-an-american-el-sistema
ITEM: A new photo of Chopin on his deathbed has been found – or has it?:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/10/AR2011031001937.html
ITEM: Should James Levine leave the Metropolitan Opera as well as the Boston Symphony? A blogger for New York Magazine thinks so:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/03/justin_davidson_on_the_disappe.html
ITEM: Famed oboist Heinz Holliger (below) and Robert Schumann are profiled and celebrated in London:
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/heinz-holliger-profiled-in-london
ITEM: Gifted conductor Yakov Kreizberg dies at 51:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2011/03/16/134592101/conductor-yakov-kreizberg-dead-at-51