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Orchestras
Jersey hires Joshua Bell
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18 operagoers need medical treatment after lesbian Hindemith opera
Florentina Holzinger’s Stuttgart production of Hindemith’s Sancta Susanna…
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RIP
Just in: Leif Segerstam has died
The prolific Finnish symphonist and conductor died today…
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Peter Gelb blames critic for Met flop
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Met union rebuts ‘half-truths’
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Barefaced cheek: That smock just sold for £15,500
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Video: No comment from the BBC about this Rolf Harris sketch
Since the BBC has gone into lockdown mode…
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In America 2014, does Jackie Evancho = opera?
A touching and thoughtful post by opera student…
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It’s symphony vs opera on Wimbledon centre court today
Roger Federer loves Beethoven, goes to concerts and…
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Was I the 10,815th baby born for free?
I was born in a London maternity hospital…
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Jazz flute giant is dead
Paul Horn, who played solos with Sinatra and…
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Chailly crashes out of BBC Proms, Cavendish out of Tour de France
There are a lot of bad falls this…
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Ex-Chetham’s teacher pleads guilty to sex assaults on teenaged girl
The conductor Nicholas Smith, a former head of…
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Video: The world’s most hilarious elevator
Who ARE these guys? And who’d have thought…
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New video: Boy, 16, conducts Shostakovich 9th
In Venezuela, where else? Jose Angel Salazar conducts…
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Maestro blues: Riccardo Chailly breaks his arm in fall, cancels BBC Proms and season opener
The music director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus (and…
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Video of the day: Lenny Bernstein shows his stars and stripes
Love those sideburns in the brass.
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Just in: It rained on the maestro’s birthday party
Long Yu, the most powerful conductor in China,…
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Another top editor drops dead at 57
French and German media were shaken in rapid…
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How many string quartets can you get in a Volkswagen?
No idea. But you can cram two of…
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Rolf Harris gets 5 years. Questions for the BBC.
In 1993, after a prolonged absence from prime…
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Inside tip: Vienna Philharmonic to play pop venues in Russia
Our man in the Kremlin is a little…
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BBC names its Young Composer winners
press release: Six talented young composers have…
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Name ten Hamburg composers
The city of Hamburg is so excited by…
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