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Hot video: Berlin Philharmonic gets iced
Smug? They invented it.
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Winners (and losers) at Domingo’s Operalia
Sad to report that neither of the countertenors…
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Conductor asks his orchestra to sing at BBC Proms
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Soft job lined up for exiting Edinburgh director
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I did it! Help ALS research and also…
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Just in: Beethoven Festival is cancelled
George Lepauw, who failed to pay many of…
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Leaked emails: The Met’s defence of Klinghoffer
Now the Met’s season is going ahead, opposition…
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Grammy-winning pianist dies in New York, aged 39
Octavio Brunetti, who won a 2007 Grammy for…
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Weird, or wonderful? Rachmaninov played by Leon Theremin on his hands-free machine
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Rachmaninov plays Polka with his wife
Rare audio recording. Appalling sound, but such vitality.
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Covent Garden’s oboe is caught cycling across America
David Presly plays oboe in the Royal Opera…
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‘3 in 5 UK musicians suffer psychological problems’
A survey by Help Musicians UK finds a…
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Kennedy Center picks principal viola, 25
Meet Allyson Goodman, 25, principal viola of the…
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Social scoop: Seiji Ozawa is a grandfather
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Lang Lang’s new arm candy
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Wall Street Journal on Peter Gelb: ‘The unions ate his lunch’
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Boy Friend composer dies, aged 90
Sandy Wilson who wrote the 1953 musical that…
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Both countertenors get through to Operalia final
Two high guys made the final cut. Here’s…
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Julie Andrews has a new list of Favourite Things
Just dropped into our mailbox: To commemorate her…
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