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Just in: Leif Segerstam has died
The prolific Finnish symphonist and conductor died today…
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18 operagoers need medical treatment after lesbian Hindemith opera
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Piano legend turns 90
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Peter Gelb blames critic for Met flop
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Why playing violin is harder than guitar: the physics and maths facts
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Woman composer runs rings around Germany’s finest
Does the name Rebecca Clarke pluck a string?…
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Just in: Lorin Maazel cancels his summer dates
The conductor, 84, has been out of action…
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Did Haydn really sing at Vivaldi’s funeral?
It is one of the most endearing stories…
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Another washed-up piano? No, it’s been put there for the birds
Not the East River, beneath the Brooklyn Bridge….
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A ‘martyr to music’. Dead at 63.
Kyle Gann reports the death of the American…
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Shostakovich in America: how many composers can you name?
Sent abroad to lie for his country, Dmitri…
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A transgender concert pianist finds hope across the border
He played concertos with the New York Philharmonic,…
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A prime minister gets new orchestral score for his birthday
Canada’s former prime minister Joe Clark got the…
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Placido Domingo speaks out on Spanish royal family
Speaking on China television, the opera legend talked…
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The greatest Violetta? She’s 75 today…
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Exclusive: The Met’s #2 joins board of English National Opera
Restless, ambitious and increasingly international, English National Opera…
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Von Stade’s comeback is an overlong coffin
Frederica Von Stade announced her retirement three years…
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Just in: Barcelona lands major-league manager
The long-unsettled Liceu opera house in Barcelona is…
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Vienna mourns a popular soprano
Sonja Mottl, who sang 1,396 times at the…
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Finding the key to a composer that time forgot
An old Melodiya recording sleeve informs me that…
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Moscow ends three-year cycle of English music
The conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, an avowed Anglophile, has…
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Italian diva, 66, scores a Carnegie Hall triumph
Eve Queler has been conducting little-known bel canto…
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Sudden death of German classical promoter
René Heinersdorff, one of the busiest and most…
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Which US cities give most (and least) to the arts?
A new study by the Cultural Policy Center…
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