Detroit Free Press — The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has canceled three additional weeks of concerts due to the musicians strike, beginning with four classical performances Thursday through Sunday that were to have been conducted by music director Leonard Slatkin. more info

Detroit Free Press — Where's Leonard? Nearly a month into the Detroit Symphony Orchestra strike, music director Leonard Slatkin has yet to speak publicly about the bitter labor dispute that has engulfed his orchestra. more info

Detroit Free Press — The DSO and music director Leonard Slatkin were to have performed Thursday at the Wharton Center on the campus of Michigan State University and then officially open the DSO's season at Orchestra Hall in Detroit with concerts Friday through Sunday... more info

Topix — Mark Kanny is the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's classical music critic and can be reached at 412-320-7877 or via e-mail. Ways to get us The Pittsburgh Symphony and Leonard Slatkin have extended his contract as principal guest conductor through the 2013... more info

Detroit Free Press — When a heart attack forced music director Leonard Slatkin to bow out of concerts with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra last November and December, the promising young American conductor Andrew Grams was one of the maestros called in for relief work. more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, LondonRichard Eyre's staging of La Traviata is a handsome staple Covent Garden show, regularly revived since its premiere in 1994, though beginning to look its age. It last appeared as recently as May. So why yet another revival so... more info

Detroit Free Press — Hey, look who's here -- Leonard Slatkin! The music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra made a welcome cameo at Saturday's big finish of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, conducting Samuel Barber's neglected "Capricorn Conc... more info

Guardian Music — In his attempt to quash the story of his abdication from the Met's Angela Gheorghiu-led La Traviata, Leonard Slatkin has opened the door to a world of operatic tantrumsRemember the Leonard Slatkin/La Traviata saga a while ago? Well, now the embattled... more info

Detroit Free Press — It wasn't the devastating reviews and Internet gossip per se that most upset Leonard Slatkin in the wake of his controversial departure from the Metropolitan Opera's "La Traviata" in April. It was the widely repeated assumption -- influence... more info

Detroit Free Press — Yes, Leonard Slatkin and Cindy McTee are an item, but their blossoming personal relationship had nothing do with the composer winning the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Lebenbom prize for female composers -- an award that includes $10,000 and a wo... more info