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June 8, 2008

•Classical download #1 on Charts
•Drug Use in orchestras
•Conductor pay on rise

September 23rd, 2007

•Falletta renews in Buffalo
•Enescu Fest in Bucharest
•Muti lectures premature applauders

June 11th, 2006 Edition

• Osmo Vanska drops Finnish Orch
• McDuffie buys Guarneri with help from friends
• Nat’l Accordion Awareness month!

May 21st, 2006 Edition
Strad sells for record price at Christie's 6.4 million Dollar Pipe organ in Philly Barenboim "official" at La Scala

KBAQ Book of the Month for June
KBAQ's Randy Kinkel recommends "The Toughest Show on Earth" a page-turning memoir by Joseph Volpe, who worked his way up from carpenter to head of the world's most important opera house.

This Week in Classical Music-Jan. 31, 2010

•Earl Wild Dead at 94
•Agreement in Seattle
•57 year Met Vet retires

May 27, 2007

• Reich wins Polar Prize
• Cleveland looks for Trombonist
• Mood Music for Sharks?

May 20, 2007

• Kahane off DL
• Met ticket sales on rise
• Oboist files discrimination suit

This Week in Classical Music-Nov.22, 2009

•Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg and the New Century Chamber Orchestra
•Composer Joseph Schwantner's latest composition, Chasing Light

This Week in Classical Music-September 28, 2008

•Josefowicz wins Genius Grant
•Eschenbach to National Symphony
•Holocaust violins play in Jerusalem

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