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COUNTER POINTS turns its attention to the United States this month with a profile of another record store and a listing of recent best sellers.

Sir Georg So/ti is to become Artistic Director of the Salzburg Easter Festival from 1992 and for his first appearances in this role will conduct two orchestral concerts and a new production of Richard Strauss's "Die Frau ohne

The harpsichordist Bob van Asperen has signed a three-year exclusive contract with EMI Classics. Six CDs are planned, including works by Couperin and Bach. These will be released on EMI's Reflexe label and join a discography that already includes works by Telemann, Frescobaldi and CPE Bach....

THIS year sees the centenary of the I premiere of Elgar's Froissart, and the 1990 Three Choirs Festival— centred this year on Worcester—sees the performance of a number of Elgar's greatest works. As well as Froissart, there will be The Dream of Gerontius, the Second Symphony, the Coronation...