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US festival scraps its orchestra
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Kirill Petrenko restores swagger to La Scala
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King Charles drops in on LSO-lite
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Sviatoslav Richter: I do not like myself
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Death of a classical guitar pioneer
The family has announced the death of Matanya Ophee,…
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Death of Czech Philharmonic chief, 70
The composer Václav Riedlbauch, who ran the Czech…
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80% of German music lessons are cancelled
An alarming statistic about primary school teaching quoted…
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Everlasting Love – no more
Robert Knight, one-hit wonder of 1967, has died,…
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JEG’s choirmaster has died
A Guardian contributor reports the death of Rodney…
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Dr Who composer has died, at 95
The death has been announced of Dudley Simpson, who…
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So Hilary Hahn practised for 100 days
The US violinist is making a bit of…
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Parents accuse school of porn for showing ‘Oklahoma’
Only in America. Specifically, in Utah: An email…
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Ireland’s Taoiseach spends a night at the opera
Ireland’s young prime minister Leo Varadkar is showing…
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China to buy America’s top choir college?
The word going round is that a group…
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The last American music director
When David Robertson quits St Louis, Leonard Slatkin…
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Bolshoi is evacuated by bomb scare
The Moscow theatre was clared yesterday evening after…
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The student union letter that led to an RAM staffer’s dismissal
We promised a followup to the Royal Academy…
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Tulsa honours its Russian poet
A music director in the Oklahoma city, Andres…
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Another US city slashes classical radio
It’s Salt Lake City. Read about it here….
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Renegade Malaysia Philharmonic loses orchestra managers
We hear that the Malaysian Philharmonic, which is…
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Death of an Italian tenor, 91
Opera Nostalgia reports the death in Cecina of…
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The orchestra that can’t tell symphony from concerto
The fifth concerto? Or spell Tchaikovsky on a…
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Mikhail Pletnev is taken off plane and rushed to hospital
The Russian pianist and conductor was removed from…
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This memo got a Royal Academy staffer fired this week
Internal statement from the principal of the Royal…
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