Jessica Duchen's liberally-redacted piece on the corruption behind classical music competitions appears in today's Independent, and it's a sobering read, regardless of the fact that it was altered under the happy red pens of editing lawyers.
With "The Murky Music Prize", Jessica delves into the scarily-corrupt world of classical auditions, where the fear of lawsuits keeps the whistle-blowers from speaking out, and under the promise of awards & promotion, "there lies an iceberg of nepotism, sexual coercion, financial greed and downright megalomania that has gone unchecked for decades."
Here's the article that appears in The Independent, and here's Jessica on how her original article was altered.