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Barenboim quits Berlin Phil’s Europakonzert
Statement by the Berlin Phil: It is with…
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Sir Andrew Davis and the snobs
The composer Michael Tippett referred to him as…
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At last, Beethoven’s 5th played on viola solo
Don’t say you haven’t dreamed of this. The…
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Rare royal honour for Russian conductor
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Save JS Bach’s house from becoming a parking lot
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Small German state appoints Australian music director
The press release is excessively puffy, but this…
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An open letter to Gustavo Dudamel on the Venezuela situation
The pianist Gabriela Montero goes public today on…
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Austria makes Schoenberg’s grandson a citizen
LA lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg has waged art…
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Big, bold Brit to run arts at Ground Zero
Thrilled to hear that David Lan, head of…
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Former NEA chief is killed off on TV
No sooner does Barack Obama name Jane Chu…
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Exclusive: Cologne picks seasoned fighter as new music director
We hear that Cologne is about to announce…
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Obama names Kansas Jane to head the NEA
This is a cool appopintment. After the abortive…
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Another phoney list of ‘world’s top music schools’
This one can’t even spell ‘Juilliard’. But it…
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Singing nuns are back on top of the charts
If it weren’t for the Christian market, there…
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Internal leak: Purcell staff member is ‘suspended’
Our well-informed source at the troubled English music…
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Charles Ives’s studio is saved … and reopened in New York
Eighteen months ago, we campaigned in vain to…
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I heard music played last night in Jascha Heifetz’s room
Working at the Colburn School this week, I…
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North loses much-loved toot
Ron Marlowe, piccolo player in the Halle Orchestra…
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Mahler Park is uprooted for mini-golf
A public park in Prague, named after Gustav…
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Breaking: Leading early music player is charged with rape
The release below has just dropped from City…
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An Auschwitz musician dies in New Zealand
Days after the passing of Violette Jacquet-Silberstein, we regret…
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More maestro woes: Mariss cancels Munich
Already forced to cancel the Concertgebouw last week,…
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Will the next Strad theft succeed?
The historian David Schoenbaum thinks it might: But…
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