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Barenboim hands over the baton
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last…
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Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe…
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Blomstedt, 97, premieres adolescent Mozart
The Serenade in C K 648 for two…
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BBC names Young Musician semi-finalists
A televised selection process that raised concerns about…
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Melvyn Bragg: Brexit will wreck British arts
From Melvyn’s fact-packed speech to the House of…
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Met still has plenty seats available for Jonas Kaufmann’s hyped return
There are dozens, possibly hundreds, of seats still…
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New survey: 86% bassoons, 95% doublebasses, are men
A survey of 22 international orchestras reveals astonishing…
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Missing pianist is ‘buried by wrong family’
The Toronto pianist Scott Cushnie, who went missing from…
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Job vacant: Berlin State Opera seeks 15-18 year-old journalist
Aus unserem bulging inbox: Die Staatsoper Unter den…
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Ex-mezzo is new US opera chief
Long Beach has named Jennifer Rivera as executive…
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Falling leaves: Met loses its current Scarpia
Wolfgang Koch has withdrawn from the fall run…
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Dissident opera director goes on trial in Moscow
A closed hearing is going on at Moscow’s…
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New assistant conductor is thrust straight into action
Marta Gardolińska was named young conductor in association…
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Sweetbags war breaks out at a Mahler concert
From the Danish paper, Politiken (roughly translated): Something…
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Just in: Swiss orchestra receives a $15 million windfall
The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, little known outside Switzerland,…
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Cleveland’s alleged #Metoo trombone loses his other job
From the CIM: Dear students, faculty, staff, alumni…
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Such a bad conductor, such a great teacher
The Vienna State Opera is putting on a…
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A Greek moves in on Handel summit
The London-trained Baroque conductor George Petrou has been named…
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So little sex in Rufus Wainwright’s Hadrian, so much Mahler
Critics are complaining that Canada’s biggest opera premiere…
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This orchestra will wave right back at you
From the Musicians of the Chicago Lyric Opera…
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Death of a Decca baritone, 85
The Greek baritone Vasilis Giannoulakos died on Sunday…
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Anyone else getting hassled on Youtube? And why is it always Sony?
Message from Antonio Pompa-Baldi, professor of piano at…
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Exclusive: Maestro gets married
Our social affairs correspondent writes: On Saturday, in…
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Philip Glass: In my father’s record shop, we didn’t let people steal the records
The composer has something to say about streaming:…
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