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Chicago names new maestro
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NY violinist with two broken wrists needs your help
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American richest donors gather for Carnegie gala
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Scotland hires anti-Israel pianist
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Mourning for a British clarinet
The family have posted news of the passing…
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Nice new Italian conductor is called ‘fascist’
There were demonstrations today at Nice Opera against…
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The Met’s Carmen is ‘bland, lethargic’
Zachary Woolfe in the NY Times gives the…
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Death of a leading clarinet
The royal orchestra of Sevilla in Spain has…
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New Year’s 2025 will be conducted by him, again
The Vienna Philharmonic has announced the name of…
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Vienna Phil switches concertmaster
Contrary to advance publicity, it was Rainer Honeck…
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The quintessential American composer, RIP
The composer Ron Nelson, who died on December…
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Boos for Beethoven’s 9th in Vienna
The Konzerthaus audience voiced its dismay at the…
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The sleepiest Vienna New Year’s Day ever
Greytops are struggling to remember a New Year’s…
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The Met’s new Carmen loses its Don José
Hours before the opening of its big year-end…
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New Year’s Day Opera 2024 – Verdi’s Traviata
Slippedisc is celebrating New Year’s Day with Verdi’s…
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Rachmaninoff did not belong to Russia
From my review in this weekend’s Wall Street…
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Armenia moves violin contest to China – with predictable results
This year’s Khachaturian violin competition was moved, for…
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Austrian government bails out Boys Choir
The Vienna Boys Choir has received an emergency…
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Orchestras
Odesa Philharmonic flies into 2024
With a message from music director Hobart Earle:
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Aigul remembers a Carmen with balls
The Met’s new Carmen has been talking on…
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Death of an electroacoustic pioneer, 97
The French composer Francis Dhomont, a pupil of…
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‘Eyes and ears of BBC Proms’ has died
We have received sad news of the death…
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