Sunday, March 20, 2005

Use a Baton, Go to Jail

In France, they're arresting conductors--literally.

Brian M. Carney gives us an amusing look at the French. In this episode we find that the cultural paragons of Old Europe are employing musical protectionism by not employing foreign musicians. It seems that many a town in France can afford to pay imported orchestras but not home-grown ones. And that just doesn't sit well with the French unions.

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