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Yundi Li Returns to Chopin Competition, Reclaims Position on Jury
Florida Piano Teacher Leigh Felten, 31, Arrested for Breastfeeding Videos
In a most disturbing police report, a Florida piano teacher has been arrested in light of pedaling sexually explicit breastfeeding videos involving an infant. Leigh Felten, 31, was arrested in Tallahassee for abusing the child. Grigory Sokolov, Norman Lebrecht Feud: Pianist Refuses Cremona Award Over Slipped Disc Post
In the capricious world of award ceremonies, occasionally, a winner will refuse an award for personal reasons. Fewer still so suspiciously as Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov, who recently refused the Cremona Music Award in what appeared to be an act of spite. His reasoning was given in the form of a handwritten note posted on his dedication page (written in both Italian and Russian), citing Slipped Disc agitator Norman Lebrecht as the sole reason for refusing the Cremona Music Award. Sokolov did not wish to be placed in the same category as Lebrecht, who had, himself, won the Cremona Music Award last year
