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Valery Gergiev gives memorial concert for oil chief
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Catastrophic rise in age of French classical audiences
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Stanford aims to produce next-gen music biz chiefs
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Mathematician who ‘proved’ that God exists has died
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What Beethoven wrote for the Yaybahar
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Ungrateful bastards: Lincoln Center seeks new name for Avery Fisher Hall
There’s no nice way of putting this. They…
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Singing Schoenberg is ‘like cuddling with skeletons’
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‘This is just the beginning of Atlanta’s fight for survival’
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New York’s best classical chat show is taken off air
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Another classical sellout: Lady Gaga to play Tanglewood
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Music from the Rosetta Comet sounds like a viola
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From today, YouTube wants you to pay
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Opera cuts ticket prices. You don’t read that very often.
Opera Holland Park, in London’s richest borough of…
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Minnesota Orchestra gives its boss a longer run
Kevin Smith was brought in as caretaker manager…
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Maestro’s widow wins $200k for botched hand op
The violinist Cordula Kempe Oettinger, widow of the…
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Nina Stemme is ten grand richer
The Swedish soprano has been awarded the music…
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Netrebko director hits back: ‘Russians just don’t get it’
Hans Neuenfels, whose Munich production of Manon Lescaut…
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Renee Fleming: I may quit opera in 2018
The soprano, 55, tells Reuters she’s booked for…
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British orchestras launch desperate, domesticated promo film
The Ulster Orchestra could go bankrupt at any…
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Conductor offers reward for stolen scores
Bramwell Tovey got home from a Remembrance Day…
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