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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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Breaking: Yannick takes another job
He is already music director of the Metropolitan…
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Simon Rattle: ‘I’ve got the only homeless top orchestra’
The conductor continues his agitation for a new…
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Germans drop NY musician
The ARD competition has sacked Liang Wang, principal…
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Small change for farflung orchestras
The League of American Orchestras has just announced…
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An after-work drink with the neighbours
Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala have discovered they…
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Atlanta flute steps in for Chicago defector
Atlanta’s principal flute Christina Smith, locked out by…
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How fair is that? Chair of Toronto Piano has five students in the competition
The second Toronto International Piano Competition opens next week….
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This is who’ll be handing out your money
Meet Ann Meier Baker. She’s the new director of…
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New York cop’s arrest of subway musician goes wild and viral
The musician is sure he knows the law….
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Cops in the house, and the Met’s still barely half-full
We have first-night reports from our intrepid New…
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Ebola and black holes: My night in Atlanta
The cellist Matt Haimovitz has sent us his…
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Sad loss: International ballerina dies, aged 46
Liliana Perna, 46 was recovering from surgery when…
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This opera makes Wozzeck look like Fledermaus
press release: The Anatomy of Melancholy is a new…
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Great composer’s car for sale
This 1986 Volvo belonged to Witold Lutoslawski. A…
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Swiss city cracks down on foreign orchestral musicians
Basle, never renowned for its easygoing ways, has…
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Stalker pianist walks free from court
Graeme McNaught, 54, a concert pianist and lecturer at…
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Wonderfully ambiguous banners at the Klinghoffer protest
This man want the show to go on….
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James Galway appeals to save Ulster’s orchestra
The flautist leads a pack a musicians who…
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Pitts seek new chief
James Wilkinson, 69, is retiring next year as…
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The most famous sax solo of all is no more
You’ll know it when you hear it. Raphael…
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‘Soviet music teaching is no longer effective’
Mikhail Khokhlov, director of Moscow’s newly reconstructed Gnessin…
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Hilary Hahn is out for longer still
The violinist has now cancelled Cleveland. ‘I’ve been…
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The man who civilised Australia
Two prime ministers changed Australia’s attitude to culture…
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