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• Osvaldo Golijov, Still Behind Schedule

  22 Feb 2012

  Over the weekend there was more bad news for Osvaldo Golijov, from an article in the Register-Guard. It picked up observations by Tom Manoff that “at least half” of Sidereus, a recent piece by Golijov, is the work of another composer. The borrowing has…

• Being Cheated

  21 Feb 2012

  Just as I get back into blogging, there is a good classical music scandal!  Osvaldo Golijov has been borrowing music from other composers in his compositions.  There is nothing new about borrowing, in fact the IU Jacobs School of Music mainta…

• Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall This Week

  21 Feb 2012

  This week, the Berlin Philharmonic, one of the two-or-three orchestras which can legitimately claim to be among the best in the world, returns to Carnegie Hall for the first time since 2009, performing three concerts under Simon Rattle, now in his 1…