Music with Minnesotans™

Music with Minnesotans™
In this week’s edition, Alison Young talks with one of our newest residents in Minnesota, Allan Naplan, the president and general director of the Minnesota Opera who only started work here last week. He shares some of his favorite arias as well as one of his own pieces that was the inaugural wake-up song for NASA astronauts.
Read more on Minnesota Public Radio

We’ve heard enough from Europe’s tax begrudgers
EARLIER this week the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland dismissed attacks on Ireland’s corporation tax rate as “ill-informed and unfair”.
Read more on Irish Examiner

Cuyahoga Valley National Park buys chunk of Blossom Music Center land
The purchase, with federal funds, represents nearly a third of Blossom’s 780 acres and will provide a $ 4 million windfall for the Cleveland Orchestra and its parent organization, the Musical Arts Organization.
Read more on The Cleveland Plain Dealer