Six men have come forward with claims of sexual misconduct against the former long-serving executive director of the Utah Valley Youth Symphony.

Detailed report here.

We hear Toronto is about to announce its next CEO.

It’s Matthew Loden, the man who has been interim chief of the Philadelphia Orchestra for the past four months.

Loden will start work in July.

The question that springs to mind is: was Loden put in the frame by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, his Philly Canadian ally?

Loden will succeed the retiring Gary Hanson, who took the job in September 2016 after the collapse of previous stout parties.

Expect a press release later today.

Unusual happenings at the recent Don Giovanni in Santiago, Chile.

A few minutes into the last performance of a boisterous production, the baritone Levent Bakirci suffered a painful injury when Donna Anna fell onto his left hand, fracturing a finger.

Levent, good trouper that he is carried on singing.

Other members of the cast, unaware of his pain, kept raining blows onto his left hand. Donna Elvira, we hear, was particularly harsh.

‘At the end,’ says Levent, ‘the women got their revenge and Don Giovanni was really punished.’

The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions last night picked out five of the nine contenders for the main awards. They are:

Jessica Faselt, 25, soprano (Iowa City);

Madison Leonard, 26, soprano (Coeur d’Alene, Idaho);

Ashley Dixon, 26, mezzo-soprano (Peachtree, Georgia);

Hongni Wu, 23, mezzo-soprano (Jingdezhen, China);

and Carlos Enrique Santelli, 26, tenor (Orlando, Florida).

Each receives $15,000 and a career boost.

The other four go home with a $5k consolation check.

More than 7,000 people had been killed in Moslem-Buddhist fighting in southern Thailand when a regional administrator came up with the idea of inviting young people on both sides to form an orchestra.

What happened next?

Read (and watch) the BBC Thai report.

Photographs by Panumas Sanguanwong of BBC Thai

The Orchestre de Paris, independent since its foundation in 1967, has been made a department of the Philharmonie de Paris at the stroke of a minister’s pen.

The orchestra loses its independence immediately.

One ambitious bureaucrat will benefit, the music will lose out.

Laurent Bayle, president of the Philharmonie and now overall master of the orchestra said the move will give the orchestra ‘a stringer resonance at international level.’

He does not mention that Berlin, London, New York and other cities have all considered integrating their best orchestra with the arts centre and all rejected it for the same reason – it damages the orchestra.

The impending merger may have been a factor in Daniel Harding’s resignation earlier this year.