It has been announced in Canada that Bernard Labadie, music director of Les Violons du Roy, will not conduct again this year. Labadie, 51, is undergoing treatment in Germany for an undisclosed condition. We wish him a full recovery.

Yesterday, Lorin Maazel’s slow recovery from an unknown illness ruled him out at least until mid-August.
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Talking to Andrew Patner, the maestro says Italy will always be his first home. Vienna, for the past 44 years, was the second. But now he feels so comfortable in Chicago that he considers it his second home. ‘I have almost the impression I have been born here,’ he says. ‘The people are very much like the people in the south of Italy. They can laugh, they can smile…’

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