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Breaking: Yuja cancels Chicago with Klaus
We’re hearing that Yuja Wang has dropped out…
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Just in: Italian opera chief is sentenced to jail
Days after starting work as sovrintendente of the…
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Breaking: Head of strings resigns at Royal College of Music
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New concertmaster in Vienna
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien has confirmed that Lucja Madziar…
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After the Fox, classical business faces uncertain future
Slipped Disc editorial Ronald Wilford’s death yesterday leaves…
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Breaking: Classical music’s superagent has died
We have been informed of the death, early…
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The pianist who played til her fingers bled
photo Chris Slaughter This is the piano as it…
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Two composers, a maestro and a music boss in Queen’s birthday honours
Sir Neville Marriner, 91, is appointed to one…
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The composer who’s still under a German state ban
Michael Haas has come up with the extraordinary…
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No wonder Bayreuth is so screwed up
A talk I gave tonight on BBC Radio…
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New York Times awakes to a crime on its doorstep
The paper has finally got around to talking…
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Composers lead disruption of Covent Garden opera
Two protestors, who named themselves as composers Kate…
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Verbier is falling far short of funding target
The Kickstarter for Verbier Summer Music Camp 21…
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Insurer is sued for donations to orchestra
A tricky one, this. A Florida insurance company…
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Anesti! Greek symphony orchestra returns from the dead
From a correspondent in Athens: Yesterday was the…
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Principal cellist expelled by China has died, aged 48
Oleg Vedernikov was principal cellist of the Beijing…
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War-zone pianist is rewarded by European Parliament
Davide Martello, from the German town of Konstanz,…
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The losers who hold power in music schools
The cellist and teacher Alison Moncrieff-Kelly, a musician…
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Calling out Daniel Barenboim on the Israel boycott
In today’s JC, I publish an open letter…
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Young maestro’s national debut goes unnoticed
On Sunday morning, November 14, 1943, Bruno Walter…
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US police smash violin thieves ring
Two members of a gang of violin thieves…
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Pittsburgh loses artistic planner as new regime begins
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has a new, young…
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Soprano attacks The Times over body image obsession
Last summer, the London newspaper’s music critic led…
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Ornette Coleman interview: ‘All a human being can do is help his brother and sister’
Our colleague Steve Smith has unearthed a beautiful…
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