PlaybillArts notes the rather astonishing fact that two Pavarotti best-of compilations have shown up on the Billboard Top 200 chart — one at #76 and one at #150…. Edwin Outwater opened his tenure at the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony with an enticing mix of old and new: Adams’s The Chairman Dances, Ravel’s Concerto in G, Feldman’s Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety, and the Beethoven Fifth. [Update: Review at The Omniscient Mussel.]… Excellent post by Matthew Guerrieri on the Brooklyn Youth Chorus‘s performance at the 9/11 ceremony in NYC…. I did an interview with the composer David Bruce at the site Composition Today — a very useful site, something of a UK-based counterpart to Sequenza21 and NewMusicBox…. The usual hilarity at La Cieca…. If you enjoyed James Levine on a plane, you may enjoy David Daniels at the Beacon Drive-In. (Thanks to Doug Davies.)