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THE PETER PRINCIPLE IN ACTION

From the desk of James Reel on Monday, November 16th 2009 at 7:34

As of today, I am officially Arizona Public Media’s Classical Music Director. That means I’m basically getting a title, an office and a raise for doing just a little more than the work I’ve been doing for the past several months ...

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LIONA BOYD?

From the desk of James Reel on Monday, November 9th 2009 at 7:41

The Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd was hot stuff, in more ways than one, back in the 1980s, but perhaps she suffered from over-exposure (quite literally, in the case of the translucent toga she wore on one album cover). Gradually she drifted out of the public consciousness, and stopped performing altogether in 2003 ...

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SACD REVIEW: PRATUM INTEGRUM ORCHESTRA PLAYS TELEMANN

From the desk of James Reel on Monday, November 2nd 2009 at 9:11

I’ve been hanging on to a small batch of SACDs on the Caro Mitis label for something like two years, intending but never getting around to writing reviews for this blog. Let me begin to rectify that, starting with two very attractive Telemann discs ...

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