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Breaking: Yuja cancels Chicago with Klaus
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Just in: Italian opera chief is sentenced to jail
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New concertmaster in Vienna
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At last, a really useful article on opera glasses
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The NY Philharmonic issues concert etiquette guidelines
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Checking for Passover harmonies
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Breaking: Dutch orchestra cancels concerts, may face closure
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He played trumpet at JFK’s funeral
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A Swiss orchestra faces the chop
Etienne Abelin of Lucerne Festival Orchestra has posted…
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Now Beyoncé does Shostakovich
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Gergiev’s new protégé is … his nephew
Valery Gergiev is giving a Conductors Masterclass in Amsterdam…
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Another maestro stays put
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Nuns soar in US record sales. All else sinks.
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Agency swoops: Berlin Phil concertmaster gets a manager
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No more abbs: A musician pleads for verbal integrity
The 1982 Tchaikovsky silver-medallist Peter Donohoe, one of…
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Just in: Naked quartet leader appeals for legal funds
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Brum loses big brass man
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Nellie Melba’s trinkets sell for an Aussie fortune
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An Orthodox Russian laments the loss of opera freedom
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The Steinway that plays without you
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The one John wrote about Cynthia
In memoriam Cynthia Lennon, 1939-2015.
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