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Norman Lebrecht - Edinburgh risks being relegated from festival world's premier league

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Published Date: 29 August 2008
THERE is no direct flight from Edinburgh to Salzburg. That is symbolic, since the world's premier arts festivals are heading in opposite directions.
Salzburg this summer suffered a slow run of opera flops, while quietly restoring its concert and theatre programme to peak form. Edinburgh had any number of blips, not least an electronic box-office failure which caused financial crisis at theFringe,...



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Spoot,

Third rock pool on the left 29/08/2008 21:31:39
Characteristic Lebrecht - we're doomed, I tell you, doomed. Only, this time round it's the EIF and not the entire field of Western "classical" music.

Nothing would dismay Lebrecht and many of his London-based colleagues more than the EIF being successful and going from strength to strength. After all, it was a London critic who described it in the late 1940s as "a gross impertinence".


 

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