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In what's sure to be the classiest courtroom battle, a Juilliard-trained composer is suing the Brooklyn Philharmonic for butchering his piece back in 2004. The NY Post reports that Nathan Currier paid over $70,000 to have the troupe perform his two-hour-long magnum opus, only to have the musicians stop short and exit the stage. CEO Catherine Cahill had told him during an intermission that they were in danger of going over and incurring overtime fees due to union rules. After frantically editing down the piece so it wouldn't be a total disaster, the orchestra ended up ignoring the new version and simply stopped short when someone signaled the time limit. He told the paper, "It had a huge impact on me, both psychologically and in a very direct, nuts-and-bolts way. I moved out of New York to write this thing, and assumed it would change my life when it got put on. But it was like the kiss of death to my career." Indeed, the NY Times declared the piece to be nothing more than "dreadful music." Meanwhile, Currier says he would drop the suit if they would play it again.