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Breaking: Concertmaster is out in new LA Phil crisis
Players learned earlier this week that the orchestra’s…
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Met concertmaster takes job in Taiwan
The joint concertmaster of New York’s Metropolitan Opera,…
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Exclusive: Brandeis sacks string quartet
Brandeis University, facing a sharp drop in donations…
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How Dudamel handles mistakes in audition
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Philharmonia Orchestra loses soloist due to UK visa refusal
A day after we reported the denial of…
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The player who kept his double-bass in a Victoria Station locker
Among the many tales told of Francis Baines…
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A major cello concerto gets its first hearing since Piatigorsky’s premiere, 82 years ago
Houston Symphony’s principal cello Brinton Averil Smith has…
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Berlioz – so British
That’s the title of an imaginative little August…
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The Met mourns a dedicated German coach
The Metropolitan Opera has announced the death of Irene…
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Khatia’s new release is brilliant, contemporary and commendable, yet…
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: It’s…
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Boston Symphony plucks violinist from Houston
Lisa Ji Eun Kim of the Houston Symphony…
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Alan Gilbert on Donald Trump: What I think of this really horrible person
The outgoing music director of the New York…
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Maestro move: Young Italian wins German opera post
Antonino Fogliani, 40, has been named principal guest…
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Sad news: Death of a formidable French luthier
The death has been communicated of Bernard Millant,…
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Label news: Noseda to record all Shostakovich symphonies
Gianandrea Noseda announced last night that he plans…
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UK refuses visa to Glyndebourne’s Traviata star
The baritone Igor Golovatenko has told a Russian website…
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London’s premier tuba blasts his last
Mahler’s seventh symphony at the Barbican last night…
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Just in: German orchestra fires Spanish music director
A vote of no confidence by musicians in…
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In the Bartok finale, I feel like a hunted animal
Our diarist Anthea Kreston on returning to the…
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Prince Charles drops in on a Vienna Philharmonic rehearsal
Musikverein today. Photo: Dieter Nagl l-r: Christian Thielemann,…
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‘We never had a relationship with the African-American community’
Looking back on 18 successful years as executive…
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One of these will be the next conducting star
Dallas Opera is staging a reunion for participants…
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Hold the presses: Orchestra changes its name
As of today, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic has…
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… And Kurt Masur will have an Institut
Opening in November in Leipzig, where he was…
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