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Sandow | Greg Sandow on the future of classical music

via www.artsjournal.com

Greg continues to write provocative and informing posts about the present and future of classical music.

Jeremy Denk in The New Yorker

Jeremy Denk New Yorker Article

 

Anthony Shadid, a New York Times Reporter, Dies in Syria - NYTimes.com

Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning journalist, was reporting inside Syria when he suffered a fatal asthma attack.

Mr. Shadid, 43, had been reporting inside Syria for a week, gathering information on the Free Syrian Army and other armed elements of the resistance to the government of President Bashar al-Assad, whose military forces have been engaged in a harsh repression of the political opposition in a conflict that is now nearly a year old.

The Syrian government, which tightly controls foreign journalists’ activities in the country, had not been informed of his assignment by The Times.

via www.nytimes.com

Anthony Shadid was a courageous, talented journalist. This is so very sad.