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Jersey hires Joshua Bell
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Cambridge, shaken, starts new vocal course
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18 operagoers need medical treatment after lesbian Hindemith opera
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Met cuts deal with unions. Musicians quietly pleased.
Musicians of the Metropolitan Opera reached a tentative…
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Sicklist: Domingo cancels Salzburg
The septuagenarian singer is suffering from a bladder…
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After the deadline, silence at the Met
By his own threat, Peter Gelb should have…
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Vienna picks Venezeulan to replace Maazel
We hear that Rafael Payare, chief conductor of the…
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As Met deadline looms, could opera survive without a orchestra?
Today is the Met’s deadline for reaching a…
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40 music kids are locked up in Colditz. Are they digging tunnels?
Delighted to learn that the notorious prisoner-of-war camp…
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Composer movie titles
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Video gem: Ivry Gitlis sings Michel Legrand
Well, he hums a bit and almost sings…
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Robin Williams ‘saved a violinist’s career’
Aaron Dworkin, founder of Detroit’s Sphinx organisation which…
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Lucerne eyes Rattle as its next chief
The Lucern Festival is having a transitional year…
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In Russia, they are celebrating Tikhon Khrennikov
Seven years after his death, there was an…
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Sadness as Boston musical legend is found dead at home
Donald Teeters, a teacher at New England Conservatory…
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Rolando Villazon has written a novel. About a performer who has an affair.
It’s published in German at the end of…
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A centenarian Met soprano has died
Licia Albanese, an outstanding soprano at the Metropolitan…
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Video: Arthur Rubinstein teaches Spanish dance
Another gem from MeloClassic. Where do they find…
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Rock pianist turns to Messiaen’s light
Alfredo Ovalles started out in Venezuela in a…
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‘Modern recordings stink of surgical spirits and plastic’
Husband and wife pianists Ivo Varbanov and Fiammetta Tarli…
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The obstetrician who sings to newborn babies
Such a lovely man. Dr Carey Andrew-Jaja of…
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Breaking: London’s Tricycle Theatre lifts boycott of Jewish Film Festival
The theatre, in Kilburn, northwest London created a…
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Lang Lang’s analysis of the tiger economy
Message from the pianist: I met a Siberian tiger…
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