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Winchester’s plan to get rid of choristers
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Thomas Mann opera flops
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Trouble in church (2): The case of the non-undeniable NDA
Three years ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin…
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Just in: Indiana suspends chair of brass
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The orchestra blog is dead. Long live something else.
Gareth Davies, the first orchestra blogger and by…
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Breaking: Big Five boss is stepping down
Gary Hanson, executive director of the Cleveland Orchestra,…
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Music and the Jews…. is back!
The series will be repeated on BBC Radio…
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Was this the Year of Peter Sellars?
The wild man of the opera stage has…
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Sad news: Great Bolshoi star has died
Nina Timofeeva, one of the mid-century stars of…
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Cellos refuse to play in ‘unsafe’ opera pit
More grim news from the Colon, in Buenos…
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1.5 million views won’t save chili orchestra from extinction
The doomed Danish National Chamber Orchestra has scored…
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Just in: Haydn gets his London wall
Contrary to yesterday’s ruminations, we’re delighted to learn…
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And the winner of the 2014 electronic music prize is…. Brian Eno
Oh, what’s the point of music prizes? Answers,…
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For sale, Steve Jobs’s first Apple
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Honey, I shrunk the orchestra
Amit Peled plays the Haydn C major cello…
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50 years ago today, Minimalism was born
On November 4, 1964 San Francisco heard the…
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Maestro news: MTT marries Josh
Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San…
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Now Turkey bans Macbeth
The Islamisation of the arts in Turkey is…
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The only platinum artist of 2014 pulls her stuff from Spotify
Taylor Swift has delivered a telling blow to…
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Maestro moves: Basques pick a German to replace shooting star
The Orquesta de Euskadi, in Spain’s Basque region,…
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Jamie and Bezhod vie for oligarch’s $100k classical talent award
Len Blavatnik, owner of the Warner Music Group,…
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Coffee was brought to Europe by Armenians. Discuss.
The Turks claim they gave coffee to Vienna,…
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Why London can’t be bothered to commemorate composers
Campaigners for a plaque to mark Haydn’s two…
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A symphony for a disaster
There has been a certain amount of mealy-mouthed…
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