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Gareth Davies, London Symphony Orchestra Flautist-cum-Author, Talks Titanic Tour
It is a part of local lore that the London Symphony Orchestra missed the maiden and only sailing of the Titanic which they were to have taken to make the first American tour of what was billed as the "world's best orchestra." Though they avoided that fateful voyage, the 85 members of the orchestra still had what was for the time an adventurous trip, spending much of April 1912 living on a train in a whistle-stop tour of America as far west as Milwaukee before they returned to New York to sail back home. Opera About Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Focuses on Crack Use, Fall from Grace
Blogger Brent Bambury called Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's fall from grace "operatic." And now, his sordid saga has its own opera, based on music from "Carmen."
