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Latest Women-Shouldn’t-Be-Conductors Gaffe Comes From Legendary Conducting Teacher

MUSIC Posted: April 3, 2014 12:55 am

Jorma Panula, the now-83-year-old professor who trained a flock of talented maestros that includes Esa-Pekka Salonen, Osmo Vänskä, Sakari Oramo, and (ahem) Susanna Mälkki, told a Finnish news broadcaster, “They can come [to my masterclasses] and try. It’s not a problem – if they … take more feminine music. Bruckner or Stravinsky will not do, but Debussy is OK. This is a purely biological question.”

MUSIC Published: 04.03.14

Read the story in Limelight (Australia) Published: 04.03.14

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