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University fires half of the national string quartet
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Debussy’s vocaliser dies aged 100
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The shocking silence of El Sistema
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Canadians fly singer to London for experimental cancer cure
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What does Youtube pay musicians? Its boss comes clean
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The horse singer: Ex-diva trains gee-gees to win
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Human rights alert: Opera director is arrested in Moscow
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Death of Van Cliburn’s rocket launcher
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Carl Orff’s chosen one has died at 89
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Korean tenor wins Oslo
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A Cavalli opera for our times?
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Venezuela isolates Dudamel
The Maduro regime has cancelled Gustavo Dudamel’s September…
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An eminent US violin teacher has died at 95
Fredell Lack, whose students included the current Concertmaster…
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I gave up a career in the defence industry to be an opera singer
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How Stephen Hough would save classical music
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Death of a favourite Shostakovich student
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Salzburg falls back on substitute Lady Macbeth
Nina Stemme pulled out of the latest performance…
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Venezuela’s Maduro lashes out at Gustavo Dudamel
The Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has attacked the…
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Philadelphia musicians donate $74,000 to hit the orchestra’s funding target
Peter Dobrin reports: Musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra are…
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Brilliant young sax has instrument stolen in Hammersmith
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