Speedlinking - 21 April 2008

Here are a few links that I've found interesting in the last while:

• Kate writes about 7 Reasons for Pianists To Play Music Together.
• Those who are required to travel for engagements might want to check out the Gig After Gas Online Calculator to see how much of your pay you're actually keeping after factoring in your gas costs.
  
• The Kurosawa Piano Music Foundation looks like a very worthwhile organization whose mission is to support the art of the piano duo (via WTB).
• Interested in reading novels about pianists? From the bench has a list of several that you may want to check out.
• An article in today's Toronto Star by James Rolfe (president of the Canadian League of Composers) is perhaps the most eloquent and blunt recounting of the tragedy that has befallen Canada's cultural life with the CBC's near-abandonment of classical music.
• And finally, (via Dark Roasted Blend), a vintage television clip of an argument between Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray set to Beethoven's 5th Symphony: