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Woman sues Florida sheriff after mistaken arrest lands her in jail on Christmas

A Texas woman is suing a Florida sheriff after she says a mistaken arrest made her miss her family's Christmas in 2022 and her Marine son's departure for deployment in Japan

The Independent UK

Bristol Proms/BBC Singers/Jeannin and BSO/Karabits/Glennie review – celebratory and thoughtful

The BBC Singers celebrated their centenary in style, while the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra marked a milestone with the departure of Karabits as chief conductor

The Guardian - UK

Overseas schools given ‘British’ accreditation despite anti-equality curriculum

UK government allows British private schools in countries like UAE to use BSO kitemark while not teaching about same-sex relationships

The Guardian - UK

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Seiji Ozawa obituary

First Japanese conductor to gain recognition in the west who achieved superstar status

The Guardian - UK

Star Japanese Conductor Seiji Ozawa Dies At 88

Charismatic Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa, who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly 30 years and delighted audiences with his energetic style, died at his home in Tokyo aged 88, his management team announced on Friday.

International Business Times

Seiji Ozawa, longtime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has died at 88

The pioneering Japanese-American conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly decades died Tuesday.

WEKU

Japanese Conductor Seiji Ozawa Dies at 88

Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa, renowned for his 30-year tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has passed away at the age of 88.

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The week in classical: how a charity is changing lives through music in ‘poor door’ Battersea

A sparkling solo show by the British percussionist in a community venue next to the US Embassy is doubly inspiring. And the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra fire on all cylinders in Kirill Karabits’s final season

The Guardian - UK

Shostakovich: Symphonies 2, 3, 12 and 13 album review – Nelsons ends his cycle as convincingly as it began

Although for some of these performances revolutionary zeal is replaced by routine, the 13th stands apart

The Guardian - UK

Bournemouth SO/Karabits review – orchestra and conductor in perfect harmony

The conductor’s special qualities were on show in a varied programme, and helped add stability to artist-in-residence Alexander Malofeev’s glittering performance

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Prom 19: SCO/ Emelyanychev; Prom 22: BBC NOW/ Bancroft; Prom 24: BSO/ Karabits – review

A Victorian warhorse springs into life under the baton of Maxim Emelyanychev; Isata Kanneh-Mason makes fiendish Prokofiev look easy; and German horn virtuoso Felix Klieser sets an example to all

The Guardian - UK

Prom 24: Bournemouth SO/Karabits – memorable Rachmaninov defines the show

A work by the conductor’s father Ivan Karabits celebrated Kyiv, and Felix Klieser’s brought zest and panache to Mozart, but the sheer skill and audacity of the BSO in Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony was awe-inspiring

The Guardian - UK

A man drove from an IHOP with a child. Neither the car nor kid were his, BSO says

MIAMI — A mother told Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies she came out of an Oakland Park IHOP Saturday morning to find her car — and the 3-year-old son she left inside — were stolen. BSO’s looking for the man they say drove off with car and child.

Miami Herald

Family of Florida man who died while being violently restrained to sue jail staff

Suit alleges that Broward county sheriff’s office used excessive force as Kevin Desir suffered mental health emergency in 2021

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The Independent UK

BSO plan to digitize John Williams concerts almost complete

An effort to digitize more than 200 Boston Pops radio broadcasts conducted by John Williams from 1979 until 1991 is almost complete

Tribune News Service

‘There is always hope’: How a childhood dream became a reality for Jonathon Heyward, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s new musical director

BALTIMORE -- In the June 2010 issue of Applause, his high school magazine, senior Jonathon Heyward wrote that by 2020 his “huge overall dream is to become music director of a major symphony orchestra.”

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Colin Currie Quartet; Liam Byrne; Southbank Sinfonia; Bournemouth SO/ Wigglesworth

Percussive thrills on all sides and live electronics 17th-century style meet a woodwind Mozart masterclass and Bournemouth’s answer to Cate Blanchett…

The Independent UK

Autopsy claims Florida inmate Kevin Desir died from ‘strangulation’ in fight with officers

Local officials declined to charge jail guards for role in death

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The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Florida man restrained by jailers ‘died by strangulation’

Private autopsy says Kevin Desir’s death after struggle was homicide, undermining official investigation

The Guardian - US

Florida man restrained by officers in jail died by strangulation, autopsy finds

Exclusive: private autopsy says Kevin Desir’s death after struggle with six deputies was homicide, while official one said it was undetermined

The Guardian - US

Kevin Desir died a brutal death. His family believe deputies at a notorious Florida jail are responsible

Revealed: a private autopsy report shared with the Guardian concludes Desir’s death was a homicide. This article contains description of physical violence

Tribune News Service

These arts groups are taking their acts on the road in new effort to meet audiences where they are — at home

BALTIMORE -- In an effort to reconnect with audience members who drifted away during the COVID-19 pandemic, three Baltimore arts groups are quite literally getting their acts together and taking them on the road.

Reuters

Alarmed by suicide attack, China and Pakistan work together on probe

It was the kind of attack Pakistani authorities had dreaded.

The Guardian - UK

Bournemouth SO/Karabits review – Ukraine’s musical past takes centre stage

A century after its composition, Feodor Akimenko’s Cello Concerto finally had its premiere, in an outstanding concert that also featured Stravinsky and Mahler

WEKU

Where are the Black musicians in the country's largest orchestras?

In 2014, a study found that only 1.4% of orchestra musicians were Black. In 2022, it's hard to know if that number is better or worse.

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