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Tenor stops mid-concert in Birmingham to stop phone snappers
The tenor Ian Bostridge shocked Symphony Hall Birmingham…
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NY Phil dumps oboe concerto
The Mozart concerto due to be played three…
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New York Phil appoints independent investigator
The orchestra’s president Gary Ginstling has engaged Katya…
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Just in: Kirill cancels Vienna Phil
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Fastest pianist on earth sets out on go-slow tour
Lubomyr Melnyk made a (small) name for himself…
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Hilary’s back
After a four-month absence with muscle strain, the…
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Just in: Bayreuth fires ‘Nazi-theme’ director
Jonathan Meese has been booked for Parsifal in…
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London orchestra seeks new boss
Ian Maclay is leaving the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra….
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Is there any value in reaching a young audience?
Bernie Ecclestone of Formula-1 thinks not. Our other…
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Bertelsmann ex-chief (and New York Times director) is jailed
The swashbuckling Thomas Middelhoff got three years for…
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Bach collector dies, aged 100
William H. Scheide, a wealthy scholar and manuscript…
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Music manager dies in London shopping centre fall
Johnny Elichaoff, a support drummer for U2 and…
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Trombone teacher is jailed again on three sex charges
Derek Cable committed the offences on a boy…
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50 grand for an accordion player
Martin Green is one of three composer winners…
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Live stream this weekend of an opera you have never seen on screen
Indiana University Opera Theater is live-streaming Giancarlo Menotti’s…
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Why Sir John Tomlinson is joining an amateur orchestra
Britain’s foremost Wagnerian can be heard on November…
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Woman in audience maces man for demanding she switch off her phone
It happened this week at a Hollywood screening…
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Up yours! Czech Phil puts mini-cams on its musicians
Just like the bad old days when the…
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Boring Bonn dumps Zaha Hadid
The city is planning a new Beethoven concert…
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Swiss move to expel 55 foreign musicians
Basel is cracking the whip. Measures against non-EU…
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What Lincoln Center plans to do with its pieces of Avery Fisher silver
They’re erasing the founder’s name for 30 pieces…
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How opera companies put the squeeze on their artists
You’ve heard about the letter Peter Gelb sent…
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Valery Gergiev gives memorial concert for oil chief
The Mariinsky conductor is dedicating a Moscow concert…
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Catastrophic rise in age of French classical audiences
This is seriously bad news. A sociologist at…
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