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Things you really shouldn’t do to a violin
The New York composer Julia Wolfe won a…
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Yuja plays Soviet jazz
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Book now for the 2024/25 Season at Wigmore Hall
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What really went on when Beethoven premiered the 9th
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Watch the two tenors (one ex)
A fun duet, newly uploaded, by Jonas Kaufmann…
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In defence of Tom Watson, MP
Now the ratpack is upon him for smearing…
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Passing of a Peabody dean
Ray Robinson, who headed the Peabody conservatory from…
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Valery Gergiev ‘gave little’ to the LSO
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Airport nightmare: Russians seize concertmaster’s violin
Josef Spacek, concert master of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra,…
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Anyone seen Chopin’s missing juror?
We had a cryptic message from a Warsaw…
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Ankara bomb blanks out orchestra opening
A notice on the website of the Bilkent…
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A Russian wins richest violin competition
The winner of the 9th Joseph Joachim International…
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Rare video: Stanislavsky shows how to direct
Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863-1938) was a director who decisively…
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Music critic quits saying, ‘pop’s present is unusually burdened by the excellence of its past’
Wonderful piece by Marcus Berkmann who is walking away after…
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Andre Previn: ‘My problem is… I just don’t rewrite’
The veteran composer-conductor, 86, is in sparkling form…
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‘My teacher had been killed and I was at a loose end’
At 83, the eminent American pianist Jerome Lowenthal,…
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Philly eyes the barricades over Kaiser waltz
Negotiations are the Philadelphia Orchestra are deadlocked. The…
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Famous string quartet seeks viola player. Or violinist.
Just in from the celebrated Artemis Quartet: Search…
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Watch: Page turner saves sonata from sudden death
Things got a bit out of hand at…
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Advice to travelling musicians from the ever-friendly TSA
The flautist Jessica Schmitz, whose instrument was cruelly…
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Troubled Carnegie Hall shares new chair with the Met
Carnegie Hall has installed Mercedes Bass as interim…
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Musicians mourn favourite hotel manager
Those of us who travel a lot can…
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London man is jailed for murder of classical pianist
A man from Thornton Heath was said to…
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Maestro move: Berlin picks young Brit
The Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester (DSO-Berlin), casting around for…
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