Aaron J. Rabushka asks:

>For years I'd heard of the often bizarre Cannes Film Festival.  Do they
>have a music festival there too?

What they have is a series of awards for classical recordings ("Cannes
Classical Awards") at the MIDEM convention every year.

A list of this years nominees & winners can be found in the new, Spring
1999 Schwann Opus (plug plug).

Bob K.