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Dudamel Detained; Copy Editor Absent

Posted at 6:44 on Tuesday, February 19th 2013

Getting legitimate foreign artists into the United States and Great Britain has been ridiculously difficult during the past decade of paranoia, and now even Israel is getting into the act of impeding the travel of well-known musicians. According to this report, conductor Gustavo Dudamel was recently detained while entering and exiting Israel. But there's a suggestion that the harassment stems from Dudamel's Venezuelan citizenship, and Israeli officials hate Venezuela because Venezuela is cozy with Iran, which Israeli officials also hate. Read the blog post and follow its internal link for more on the conspiracy theory, but while you do that, pause to wonder if the Los Angeles Times bothers to copyedit its bloggers. This fellow twice refers to the "Israeli" Philharmonic (it's Israel Philharmonic, which he at least gets right in a quote), and Norman Lebrecht's name is not spelled "LeBrecht." I do wish newspapers would take as much responsibility for their blog posts as they do for print articles, and for that matter police their comments sections as carefully as they do published letters to the editor.

Community Concerts

Twice each week, Classical 90.5 presents its Community Concerts series, hosted by Ted Prichard and featuring live performances of classical music recorded at venues throughout southern Arizona. Community Concerts broadcasts are made possible in part with the support of a National Endowment for the Arts challenge grant funded locally by a contribution from the Holsclaw Foundation.

Sunday, March 10 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, March 14 at 9:00 p.m.
Presented by the University of Arizona School of Music, "Back to School at the Piano" features students and faculty in a dazzling display of piano pyrotechnics. Performances by keyboard students are followed by the unusual offering of “two-pianos-eight-hands” with faculty members. The program was recorded on September. 14, 2011, in Crowder Hall on the University's Tucson campus, and includes works by Haydn, Albéniz, Boulez, Prokofiev, Dvorak and Sousa.

Sunday, March 17 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, March 21 at 9:00 p.m.
For this concert, sponsored by the University of Arizona School of Music, the subject is “Romanticism,” a movement that permeated the literary, artistic and philosophical disciplines beginning in the 18th century. This program of three popular selections from the repertoire features the Arizona Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Cockrell and Jackson Warren. The concert of works by Berlioz, Brahms and Schumann was recorded on September 24, 2011, in Crowder Hall on the University's Tucson campus.

Sunday, March 24 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, March 28 at 9:00 p.m.
The St. Olaf Choir is an internationally-renowned ensemble that presents an eclectic range of musical selections ranging from 16th century works to those by contemporary composers. The Choir's Community Concerts performance was recorded February 11, 2013, at Centennial Hall on the University of Arizona's Tucson campus.

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