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At last, Boston hires a concertmaster
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Conductor makes NY debut in gold slippers
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Washington DC musicians in uproar over Killer Mike
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Breaking: Wagner’s Ring is leaving London
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Naked quartet leader is more than halfway to his defence target
Stefan Arzberger, leader of the Leipzig Quartet who…
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Kent Nagano: ‘Classical music could be gone in a generation’
He tells Vienna’s Kurier that the art form…
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Tenor deputised at the Met with blood coursing down one cheek
Michael Fabiano stood in last week at the…
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Maestro move: Monte Carlo buys green stick
Gianluigi Gelmetti is on his way out of…
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A conductor releases his worst TV moments
‘It’s boring and music is dead,’ says Brett…
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A leading Spanish composer has died
Claudio Prieto, a quiet but influential voice in…
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Placido Domingo gets replaced at the Met
Luca Salsi stepped in as Don Carlo in…
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Ex-EMI boss dies in fall
Sal Licata, who was president of EMI Records…
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On the benefits of cultural migration
A piece I wrote for this weekend’s JC…
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Street musicians take on the symphony orchestra
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The composer who mutilated his wife also tortured his mistress
More psychoanalytic reflections on the troubled life of…
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Music critic walks out on his record collection
He had no room at home, so he…
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A violinist bounces back from depression
Park Ji-hae, 29, is not a rising star….
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Breaking: Radio France locks out orchestra. Tonight’s Bach Passion cancelled
The tenor Michael Schade has just posted: Johannespassion…
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Simon Rattle passes judgement on his likely successors
He was asked to assess them in Die…
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Doyen New Yorker critic has died
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Breaking: Andris Nelsons signs with DG
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The buses that honk classical music
In Peru, they do. h/t: Alvaro Mendizabal
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‘Music is in danger’: a Paris manifesto
Players in the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France have…
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Sad news: Dennis Marks has died
The music world in London and beyond has…
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