Here in the provinces

The news of the NYPhil's trek to Pyongyang has finally appeared in the local paper.
You read it here first.
I read it somewhere else first.
You don't suppose Kim Ping Pong is planning on kidnapping them, do you?
Just to keep us free worlders on our toes?

A whole orchestraful of new job opportunities for poor beleaguered performance Phd's

The SSO has got three extra concertmasters NY could use.
There were some in this Emerald Eden who thought when we heard that the big "G" wanted to have four rotating concertmasters that it was an idea whose time should not have come.
What could they have been thinking of?
It couldn't be that in doing so the job became a part time one and therefore a job without reasonable pay or benefits?
Like the noble workers at Soundbridge?
Could it?

But, never fear, Gerry "knows what he wants to do about it"

Isn't there somewhere where one can just purchase musicians and own them without all this human rights hassle?

Or maybe this "Las Vegas" concern who is helping out with the financial
end of things can send somebody to "talk sense" to this annoying "union" entity.

Anyway;

From Paris;
Two metal tubs containing rare recordings of great operatic performances from 1907 have been discovered in the underground of the Palais Garnier.
You remember this place as the strange and almost unbelievable setting for Gaston Larue's "Phantom of the Opera"
Enrico Caruso, Adelina Patti, and Emma Calve are on their way to digitization and a CD outlet near you.
The story is in the March 2008 issue of Smithsonian and titled "A Record Find; How the Phantom of the Opera led me to a long lost treasure"
by Michael Walsh.

In the same issue.
Ouincy Jones turns 75 this month.
I don't think he actually does it in the issue.
Probably does it in the privacy of his own fabulous home.

Or to be making fun of an old friend who can't beat me up anymore;

The Same Issue

Quincy Jones turns
Seventyfive
This month.

I don't think
He does it in the issue -
Actually,

Probably does it in -
The privacy
of his own -
Fabulous
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