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		<title>Topilow to Lead Firelands</title>
		<link>http://www.wksu.org/classical/2008/05/11/topilow-to-lead-firelands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 21:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roden</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Firelands Symphony has announced the appointment of Carl Topilow as music director from July.
Topilow is music director of the Cleveland Pops and is also known in Northeast Ohio for his work with the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra.  Last season he led a well-received Holiday Pops concert for the Akron Symphony Orchestra, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franz Welser-Moest Won&#8217;t Fly With &#34;The Bat&#34;</title>
		<link>http://www.wksu.org/classical/2008/05/11/fwm-declines-bat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 20:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roden</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After conducting two presentations in March, Cleveland Orchestra music director Franz Welser-Moest has bowed out of two additional Zurich Opera performances of Johann Strauss&#8217;s operetta Die Fledermaus, citing dissatisfaction with the staging.  Although the operetta&#8217;s story has nothing to do with vampires or Count Dracula&#8217;s castle, Michael Sturminger&#8217;s staging uses those devices, apparently solely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akron Symphony&#8217;s Creation to Air</title>
		<link>http://www.wksu.org/classical/2008/05/11/akron-symphony-haydn-creation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 06:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roden</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WKSU will broadcast April&#8217;s Akron Symphony performance of Haydn&#8217;s The Creation on Sunday, the 11th of May, during the program In Performance.
In her Beacon Journal review, Elaine Guregian praised the &#34;persuasive performers&#34; involved - the Akron Symphony Orchestra and soloists Joyce Guyer, Karl Dent, Timothy Jones, and Sandra Ross.  She wrote that the Akron [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plácido Domingo releases album of traditional Spanish songs</title>
		<link>http://www.wksu.org/classical/2008/05/09/placido-domingo-releases-album-of-traditional-spanish-songs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wksu.org/classical/2008/05/09/placido-domingo-releases-album-of-traditional-spanish-songs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 17:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Cusano</dc:creator>
		
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From the official Deutsche Grammophon Web site:
&#8220;For this recording, Plácido Domingo has drawn directly on the origins of music - the music of the street. Domingo and the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, one of Europe&#8217;s up-and-coming ensembles, have chosen the popular song form of the copla which, along with zarzuela and flamenco, constitutes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Loss for Ohio&#8217;s Cultural Scene</title>
		<link>http://www.wksu.org/classical/2008/05/08/columbus-symph-folds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 23:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roden</dc:creator>
		
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Junichi Hirokami &#38; Columbus Symphony 


(Photo: Columbus Dispatch)


The Columbus Symphony has announced that they plan to shut down on the first of June, and will not perform their annual outdoor summer pops concerts.
In April, the orchestra&#8217;s musicians voted to reject management&#8217;s final offer for next season&#8217;s contract.  It included a 40% salary cut for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violinist Says Thanks</title>
		<link>http://www.wksu.org/classical/2008/05/08/violinist-says-thanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 06:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roden</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, violinist Philippe Quint got out of a taxicab in Manhattan - and left his $4 million dollar Stradivarius violin behind.  
You might think, &#34;This is not going to end happily.&#34;  But it did.  The next morning, Quint had his instrument back, and taxi driver Mohammed Khalil had a $100 tip. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Official: Muti is Taking Over in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://www.wksu.org/classical/2008/05/06/muti-in-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 21:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roden</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday (Monday 5 May) the Chicago Symphony confirmed what the rumor-mongers have been speculating about for weeks.  A voyage begun over 3 years ago has reached port with Riccardo Muti named as the orchestra&#8217;s next music director.
Muti was music director at La Scala for 19 years.  In 2005 he resigned from that post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saudis mix genders at first ever public classical concert</title>
		<link>http://www.wksu.org/classical/2008/05/06/saudis-mix-genders-at-first-ever-public-classical-concert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Cusano</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s probably as revolutionary and groundbreaking as Mozart gets these days. A German-based quartet staged Saudi Arabia&#8217;s first-ever performance of European classical music in a public venue before a mixed-gender audience.
The concert, held at a government-run cultural center Friday night, broke many taboos in a country where public music is banned and the sexes are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Humphrey, guitar designer and maker dies at 59</title>
		<link>http://www.wksu.org/classical/2008/05/06/thomas-humphrey-guitar-designer-and-maker-dies-at-59/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wksu.org/classical/2008/05/06/thomas-humphrey-guitar-designer-and-maker-dies-at-59/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 14:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Cusano</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Humphrey, an American luthier whose innovative designs and building techniques helped increase the volume, sustaining power and projection of the soft-spoken classical guitar, and whose instruments were played by many renowned concert guitarists, died on Wednesday, April 18 at his home in Gardiner, N.Y. He was 59.
Read the whole NYT obit here&#8230;
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		<title>Taking It To the Streets</title>
		<link>http://www.wksu.org/classical/2008/05/05/taking-it-to-the-streets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 20:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roden</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you make classical music popular by performing it in places where popular music is played?  Some musicians apparently think so.
Good local musicians have been toiling largely unheralded in upscale cafes and tea rooms for years, usually for a pittance.  But as far as I know, cellist Matt Haimovitz was one of the [...]]]></description>
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