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Did Benjamin write this? Surely only he would have written this: "This led to a long association with Britten and lessons in indecency and planetary alignment from Britten’s close associate Imogen Holst, daughter of Gustav Holst." What does it mean? Does anyone know? Michaelmross 23:32, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
It looks like this page has been messed up by a pseudo-hacker. Pretty irritating, I am sure that quite a few of the other statements around Granny awards and the reference to the Carnegie lavatories are wrong too. Anybody up for a clean-up?
I was surprised to read the phrase "a Jewish American conductor..." in the lead sentence. Why is it considered necessary, or even supportable, to mention his Jewishness there, or for that matter anywhere in the article? There is no mention elsewhere in the article of his Jewishness, or his activities -- if any -- related to Judaism or the like; despite a well detailed biography (which corresponds pretty closely to the biography at his own web site).
IS there a Wikipedia policy (or the like; whether requiring, or encouraging, discouraging, forbidding) pertinent to identification of a BLP subject's religious, ethnic, cultural background? Does the presence or absence of any other related information in a biographical article provide a rationale for including/excluding such identification from the lead sentence, as poosed to placing it later in an article? Or is there perhaps a list of specific categories (Jewish, African-American, Buddhist-American, Hindu-American, Muslim-American, Asian-American, etc.) that are considered "if applicable, then required in the first sentence"? --There are plenty of counter-examples: African-Americans and Jewish Americans who are not identified as such in lead sentences, even when their minority status is more prominently a part of their public image than appears to be the case for Zander. Publius3 (talk) 18:25, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Zander has been terminated at New England Conservatory over a scandal involving a registered sex offender working at the school: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/01/12/new_england_conservatory_says_ben_zander_leaving . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.7.151.109 (talk) 12:57, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Proposed rewrite of the above section to better reflect the content of the sources.
In July 2012 the New England Conservatory and Preparatory School conferred on him the title of Faculty Emeritus, acknowledging his significant contributions to the school over 45 years. This followed him being fired in January 2012 for negligence amid allegations he had hired a videographer to record concerts, who had (with Zander's knowledge) previously served a prison sentence for sexual assault of a minor. It emerged that it was not Zander who originally hired the videographer but the opera department. The videographer was never accused of any wrongdoing while at the school.
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Amortias (T)(C) 16:34, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
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To anyone who contributed to this article, why is there no mention of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, whose association with Zander is far better known than the more recent youth orchestra? This is the kind of frustrating omission that makes me afraid to use wiki anymore as a valued reference.
Thanks,
Chris
Chris874664 (talk) 02:10, 25 November 2016 (UTC)