I read on Slipped Disc that I’d been fired

The Russian conductor Vladimir Spivakov has been complaining on French radio about the manner of his dismissal from the Colmar Festival, which he had headed since 1989:

‘ I learned about it through an SMS from a French friend, who forwarded me the news published on the Slippedisc site, and not through a personal letter from the mayor of the city or from another representative of the administration of the festival ( …) I would add that I was officially informed of my resignation by email on October 25th. It was a letter full of vague terms like, for example, “For reasons that everyone understands” (God knows what that means)! A letter in a few lines, not even signed .’

Spivakov added: ‘The negotiations were conducted behind my back. Obviously, I felt betrayed”.