Eli Broad Offers Museum Of Contemporary Art A Bailout (With Conditions)

“The Broad Art Foundation is prepared to make a significant investment in MOCA — $30 million — with the expectation that the museum’s board and others join in this effort to solve the institution’s financial problems. It is vital that the museum remain on Grand Avenue, keep its collection and continue its tradition of world-class exhibitions.”

Miffed Conductor Snubs Boston Symphony

“In an extremely rare public flare-up in the outwardly genteel world of major symphony orchestras, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, the 77-year-old maestro… pulled out of the entire run of four concerts he was scheduled to conduct with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is outraged, he said yesterday, at how disrespectfully, in his view, the BSO administration had marketed his appearances to the public.”