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US festival scraps its orchestra
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Kirill Petrenko restores swagger to La Scala
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Minnesota conductor disbands his orchestra
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A ‘field crowded with prodigies’? Name them
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What do you call an oboist’s autobiography?
Newly available in paperback from Joshua Tree Publishing in…
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Scottish baton switches horse
The promising Rory Macdonald, 37, has dumped his…
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Breakthrough? Western dance company performs in Saudi Arabia
IMG has announced that it has quietly staged…
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Death of a New York maestro, 74
We have received sad news of the death…
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Covent Garden opens me-too Tosca
The Met launched its much-substituted Tosca at New…
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Biz news: An Egyptian soprano gets big management
AskonasHolt have signed Fatma Said, an Egyptian soprano…
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No British students in Yehudi Menuhin finals
The list of contenders for this year’s competition…
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Just in: Met principal oboe heads out to Philly
We hear that Nathan Hughes, Principal Oboe of…
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The truth, the whole truth, about that Alitalia viola da gamba
Alitalia has hedged and fudged its responsibility for…
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Peter Gelb gets bragging rights in Moscow
The beleaguered general manager of the Metropolitan Opera…
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Death of an international tenor, 70
The Philippine tenor Otoniel Gonzaga, who trained at…
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End of a concertmaster dynasty in Munich
Florian Sonnleitner will play his last concert with…
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An American actor accuses Franco Zeffirelli of making sexual demands
The actor Johnathon Schaech has written an account in…
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Houston Symphony, we have upgrade
The Houston Symphony has appointed as CEO a…
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Death of a Bartók authority, 75
From the musicology webchat site: The faculty,…
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On first hearing you can hardly tell it’s Stravinsky
The latest Lebrecht Album of the Week listens…
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A mouse causes havoc in Washington orchestra concert
When a mouse was seen during a concert…
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Here’s what happens when critics fail
We find ourselves up to our eyeballs in…
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How big is my piano?
In a chamber recital, should the piano lid…
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Listen: The first performance of John Cage’s 4’33”
A BBC Radio 4 documentary. Listen here.
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