Arthur Kaptainis: Charles Dutoit exiled from CBC, but OSM gets a reprieve

The music was Rossini’s Overture to La gazza ladra, or The Thieving Magpie, as host Ben Heppner translated the title last Sunday on Backstage, his show on CBC Radio. He noted, naturally enough, that “Charles Dutoit led the Montreal Symphony.”
This was by no means the last broadcast of an OSM recording on a CBC program, but if a new CBC policy is applied rigorously, it might have been the last time Dutoit is acknowledged on air as conductor.
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