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Just in: Rome Opera fires its orchestra and chorus
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Another music chief gets the chop at Radio France
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Finance fears: Met’s debt may be downgraded
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Breaking: Welser-Möst renews at Cleveland until 2022
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What can Berlin offer a player that Chicago can’t?
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World’s newest concert hall is in most polluted city
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The seal that went to the opera
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What makes musicians bitter: a view from the Met
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Finally, a credible list of the best US music colleges
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Breaking: Chicago flute flies off to Berlin
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Click-Bait? It’s an Israeli war crime, apparently
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Dark nights: Turkey imposes Islamic dress code on State Opera and Ballet
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New Yorks Times slashes 100 newsroom jobs
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At last, an avenue is named for a lost composer
When Andrzej Panufnik fled Warsaw in 1954 he…
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An international airline discriminates against violas
In an unusually lucid and utterly unequivocal statement…
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‘Vienna has lost its venom,’ wails public voice
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Hollywood’s Ethan Hawke: I owe it to this piano teacher
The busy director has made a documentary about…
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Atlanta singer: That locked-out orchestra made me who I am
Nacole Palmer is an Atlanta-born soprano with an…
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Leon Fleisher: Music critics are no longer relevant
The combative pianist, 85, has been sharing his…
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Music director flies in to airport birthday mob
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