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Musical instrument collection closure – Victoria & Albert Museum
Photos taken, in bad light through dusty display cabinets, at Gallery 40a of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London on 21st February 2010. The collection of musical instruments closed the...
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Strike at Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Orchestral strikes are always poignant. Musicians are a bit like miners: they stick together. It's their job to stick together. Plus it's hard for orchestral management to organise scab labour. If...
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Detroit Symphony Strike – Settlement Needed
I wrote this on 9th October 2010: Orchestral strikes are always poignant. Musicians are a bit like miners: they stick together. It’s their job to stick together. Plus it’s hard for orchestral...
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IMSLP, Copyright & the MPA (UK)
All IMSLP score pages on the wiki now carry the following statement: Example This post on the IMSLP forums by Carolus, an IMSLP administrator, explains the background: *** Now that things are calming...
View ArticleIMSLP & the MPA – Thank You
During the recent take-down of IMSLP by the UK Music Publishers Association something heartening happened. People went to download a score from IMSLP and found the site unavailable. News of the...
View ArticleGolan v. Holder: Should Shostakovich be Public Domain?
I am happy to announce that IMSLP will be submitting an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case Golan v. Holder, a case challenging the constitutionality of copyright restoration under...
View ArticleThe LPO Four, Music & Politics
A row is fizzing in the London classical music world over the suspension of four musicians from the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO). Their crime? To have used the letters “LPO” after their names in...
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Magic and Mendelssohn at St James’s
Walk a few yards from London’s Piccadilly Circus and you reach St James’s, a fine Wren church where William Blake was baptised in 1757. It was hit during the first phase of the London Blitz on 14...
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