The things you have to do these days to get onto Slipped Disc.

 

The man with his fingers in his ears is Peter Kjome, the Baltimore Symphony president who is presently slashing his orchestra by one-fifth.

The photograph was taken at a fundraiser put on by Baltimore Symphony musicians.

 

We hear that Alison Fierst has been appointed Associate Principal Flute of the New York Philharmonic.

Alison, who’s doing a Masters at Manhattan School of Music, won second place in the 2017 National Flute Association Young Artist Competition in Minneapolis, and first in the 2017 Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia Young Artist Competition.