"Toed the party line today..."

* Volume 2 of Prokofiev's diaries is out.

* Corigliano: "I'm always dazzled by percussion concertos, but afterwards I can't remember a single thing about them except that they were exciting and had lots and lots of notes."

* Vivaldi's Argippo gets its second production in three centuries.

* BBC's Young Musician contest turns 30.

* MSN's Music Store died a well-deserved death. Now, the EFF is pissing on the corpse.