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Barenboim hands over the baton
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San Antonio is sinking
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Just in: Leif Segerstam has died
The prolific Finnish symphonist and conductor died today…
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Rattle takes on a Haitink intern
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New Philadelphia boss orders up more women composers
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Cleveland asks lawyers to investigate its concertmaster
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New music festival is accused of Israel bias
The hallowed incubator of modernist music at Donaueschingen…
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Berlin festival is hit by anti-Israel boycott
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In praise of George Szell
We’ve received well over 100 comments on Murray…
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Why are competitions failing to produce star violinists?
The past decade has produced outstanding talents on…
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Just in: Minnesota Public Radio in major merger
One of the key US classical stations has…
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Canada pitches in with six-digit violin contest
The prizes keep increasing, but are they delivering…
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Jazz singer who starred in The Godfather
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Bernstein or Debussy: Who won the centennial war?
A great composer died in March 1918. …
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Katy Perry goes classical, sort of
The pop superstar has joined the LA Phil…
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Deposed NY ballet chief is done for drunk driving
Peter Martins, who left New York City Ballet…
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Maestro move: Young guy gets Tennstedt’s job
Benjamin Reiners has been named Generalmusikdirektor in Kiel,…
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Madonna is 60 today
It catches up with everyone. Except the truly…
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A symphony of hope for fading Turkey
The Dresden Philharmonic will open its season with…
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Death of a Soviet soloist, 92
The mezzo-soprano Valentina Levko, soloist of the Bolshoi…
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Only one Zakhar Bron student survives in Shanghai
It looks like the Shanghai Isaac Stern violin…
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Beijing hires Cliburn man to start new competition
Richard Rodzinski, long-serving head of the Van Cliburn…
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Oregon Bach Festival stumbles into the void
From the experienced Tom Manoff’s review of the…
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Death of a US idealist who founded two national orchestras
Gerald Brown, founder-conductor of the national symphony orchestras…
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