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The maestro quits, the CEO follows
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Great sadness: Kaija Saariaho has died
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The company they tried to kill has just won Opera of the Year
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Peter Gelb: Only the Met can turn singers into movie stars
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Could 2014 be the Year of the Mandolin
Chris Thile has reached #2 in US classical…
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Why is America’s musicology Tsar cited 26 times in a new composer biography?
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J S Bach ‘got fed up with church’
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Gerard Mortier on cancer, opera and Wikipedia
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‘The Nick Cave of classical’? Come on…
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How Wojciech Kilar treated his conductors
The Polish conductor Antoni Wit was a close…
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In some US orchestras, they bring guns to rehearsal
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Cut! One of the great film composers has died
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Very angry tweet: French birds demand share of Messiaen’s royalties
The Union Ornithologique de France is getting into a…
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I’m a pianist, living downstairs from the world’s greatest player
Zsolt Bognar is a fine young pianist who…
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China’s violin method: ‘Study and train hard, according to a scientific method’
The Chinese Violin Society has been holding its…
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He turns out the lights in the world’s remotest opera house
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Wedding of the New Year: A mandolin gets married
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Why did director ram-raid the Elysée Palace? He was trying to save his theatre…
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