Monday, 31 December 2001
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CBC ArtsCanada
"With the Toronto Symphony Orchestra teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and labour disputes disrupting concerts in Winnipeg and Calgary, it's been a difficult year for many Canadian orchestras.
Even relatively healthy orchestras in other cities have scaled back their seasons and cut musicians' wages. "
Not a good year. And it's hard to see how things will improve.
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The Globe and Mail: Breaking News The CBC technicians' union announced Sunday afternoon that a tentative deal to end the labour dispute has been ratified.
We're back to work, and that's a good thing. It looks to me as though the union made some major concesions.
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Radio Australia News - World's oldest working orchestra conductor dies in Japan
Takashi Asahina, who died in Kobe, was admitted to hospital suffering from fatigue in October, one day after conducting a gruelling programme.
Note to self: don't be doing anything too gruelling when I'm 93 or I'm apt to find myself in the hospital. Wow.
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GregLog :: Rants and Raves "[F]inally the 'War on Terrorism' is achieving its policy objectives. Osama bin Laden is looking haggard. We may not have caught him or brought him to justice but, at the cost of thousands of innocent Afghan lives, billions of dollars of US citizens' money and the civil liberties of the Free World, we have got him looking haggard."
Just found this site tonight. Lots of wonderful raves about the post 11 Sept situation in the Excited States of America.
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