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10 percent drop out of Queen Elisabeth competition
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England loses a small orchestra
The Lancashire Sinfonietta has given up the unequal…
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The most depressing guide yet to flying with your bow
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This will be the most-watched symphony video of 2014
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The late Rik Mayall’s World Cup anthem
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Stranger than opera: Stagehands save man from violent mugging
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Changing times: Buddhist monks play Bach in China
Rudolph Tang reports from Beijing: A Buddhist temple…
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First step to saving New York’s washed-up piano?
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Why playing violin is harder than guitar: the physics and maths facts
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Woman composer runs rings around Germany’s finest
Does the name Rebecca Clarke pluck a string?…
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Just in: Lorin Maazel cancels his summer dates
The conductor, 84, has been out of action…
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Did Haydn really sing at Vivaldi’s funeral?
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Another washed-up piano? No, it’s been put there for the birds
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A ‘martyr to music’. Dead at 63.
Kyle Gann reports the death of the American…
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Shostakovich in America: how many composers can you name?
Sent abroad to lie for his country, Dmitri…
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A transgender concert pianist finds hope across the border
He played concertos with the New York Philharmonic,…
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A prime minister gets new orchestral score for his birthday
Canada’s former prime minister Joe Clark got the…
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Placido Domingo speaks out on Spanish royal family
Speaking on China television, the opera legend talked…
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The greatest Violetta? She’s 75 today…
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Exclusive: The Met’s #2 joins board of English National Opera
Restless, ambitious and increasingly international, English National Opera…
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Von Stade’s comeback is an overlong coffin
Frederica Von Stade announced her retirement three years…
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