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the New York Times story about Minnesota Orchestra conductor Osmo Vanska

 to get to the part that's got the local artistic tongues wagging today: He has a romantic relationship with concertmaster Erin Keefe.

She's probably fleeing the orchestra anyway, the Times reports. She's auditioning  for a position with the New York Philharmonic.

The Orchestra's chairman  Gordon Sprenger,  issued the statement:

The waters appear fairly polluted at the Orchestra, where the paper says there remains resentment toward Vanska over 

Apparently enough resentment that someone is feeding the gossip directly to the New York Times.

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You have to skim pretty far down the New York Times story about Minnesota Orchestra conductor Osmo Vanska to get to the part that’s got the local artistic tongues wagging today: He has a romantic relationship with concertmaster Erin Keefe. Mr. Vanska, who is divorced, says this is a private matter, unlikely to affect Ms.…

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