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Berlin Phil drops Rattle
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Who’s Vienna’s favourite conductor?
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Eye-catching novelties at the BBC Proms
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BBC Proms can no longer afford US orchestras
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$500,000 grant for women conductors
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given Dallas Opera…
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Bregenz shocks festival world with an unknown Hamlet
The lakeside festival is taking a huge risk…
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Who’s this playing for Heifetz and the troops in 1945?
You won’t get it. The pianist is the…
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New chief for three choirs
Alexis (Leksi) Paterson is the new chief executive…
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Classical composer’s niece is the new Sarah Vaughan
Arianna Neikrug, niece of the composer-pianist Marc Neikrug,…
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Watch: In memoriam…. by the Orchestre de Paris chorus
The work is Da pacem Domine, by Arvo…
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And the winner of the 2015 Puccini Prize is…
The Puccini Festival Foundation at Torre del Lago has…
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PM to Culture Minister: This is your job. Now do it.
As part of Canada’s new open government policy,…
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Theft alert: A golden flute is stolen in Vienna
GOLD FLUTE STOLEN IN VIENNA On 14 November…
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Just in: Scots conductor wins German orchestra
The new chief conductor of the Rheinische Philharmonie in…
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A cellist and a flutist are numbered among the Paris dead
Elsa Delplace and her mother, Patricia, died on…
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Musical firsts: A woman principal in a US orchestra
From the Chicago Symphony archives: In 1941, Frederick…
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Tech miracle: Girl born with half a hand is enabled to play the viola
Frankie Flood, a professor at the University of…
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China’s #1 conductor backs out
Long Yu, the all-conquering music director of the China…
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Gorecki’s premier conductor has died
Polish media are reporting the death of Jerzy Katlewicz,…
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Hvorostovsky and Abdrazakov raise $1/2 million for sick kids
A joint charity concert they are giving tonight…
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Christian Thielemann on video: This hall has the best acoustics in the world
Three artists, big in Japan, sing the praises…
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Sad news: America’s foremost piano teacher has died
We have been informed that Seymour Lipkin, the…
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The original Bataclan aria
The attacked theatre was named for this. Just…
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Eve of Destruction composer is gone
P.F. Sloan, who wrote Barry McGuire’s ‘Eve of…
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