Boston music school stands by firing of conductor

Associated Press Wednesday 22nd February, 2012

BOSTON (AP) -- Officials at the New England Conservatory say they will not rehire renowned conductor Benjamin Zander - who was fired last month for hiring a convicted sex offender to video record a youth orchestra - despite a long letter urging his reinstatement from Zander's legal scholar brother and a former Harvard University president.

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