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Berlin Phil drops Rattle
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Storms force closure of Spanish arts centre
The Palau de les Arts in Valencia has been…
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Bolshoi eyes three candidates for music director
The Moscow theatre has a hole in the…
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Ouch! Broken elbow costs Vienna Phil its chairman on New Year’s Day
Clemens Hellsberg, the erudite violinist who has steered…
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A pioneering violinist has passed away
The composer Rand Steiger reports the death of János…
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Phoney video: A pianist in fear of his life
This is the trailer for the forthcoming movie,…
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Korea appoints its first woman chief conductor
We are receiving reports that Shi-Yeon Sung, associate conductor…
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The president of Yale talks up his doublebass
It’s no secret at Yale University that the…
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Walk a piano while you shop the sales
Watford shopping centre, north of London, has installed…
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Billy Joel gives away his Bösendorfer
The pop pianist has given his prized piano…
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Slipped Disc editorial: Naked Femen cannot share Pussy Riot cause
The radical feminist attack on an act of…
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Naked Femen attack on German Christmas service
An activist of the Femen group climbed half-naked…
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Bombs in Egypt, opera recital postponed
Following yesterday’s murderous bombing in Mansoura – 16…
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The year’s top stories on Slipped Disc
The time has come around again to ask…
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Opera donor leaps to his death on Christmas Eve
Robert Wilson, a hedge-fund mogul who used to…
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New Bolshoi crisis: They can’t find a conductor for Tsar’s Bride
Vasily Sinaisky’s walkout as chief conductor three weeks…
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Holland’s biggest export earner is Big Brother. The second is….
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The three worst places for a musician to spend Christmas
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Stuttgart appoints Israeli as its general music director
The Stuttgart Philharmonic has appointed Dan Ettinger to…
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What we’re winding down to today…
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Mikis Theodorakis is rushed to hospital
The iconic Greek composer, 88, is under observation…
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