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10 Long-Suffering St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Musicians Finally Accept Early Retirement Offer
Locked out for much of their present season, 10 long-suffering musicians from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra have agreed to accept a retirement package that was being offered to members aged 55 or older. In a sign that's indicative of another issue, entirely, it appears that half of the SPCO musicians were eligible for the deal. The Column: Great Scores by Classical Film Composers
James Inverne on when film music turns classical, and classical music turns towards film. Someone once asked me at a classical music awards ceremony--one which specialized in “crossover," that strange category that was, I believe, invented just to give record shops somewhere to put all of those albums that once would have come under the then-defunct heading of “easy listening” (and what the heck does that mean?)--a really difficult question.
