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Tenor stops mid-concert in Birmingham to stop phone snappers
The tenor Ian Bostridge shocked Symphony Hall Birmingham…
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Breaking: Yannick takes another job
He is already music director of the Metropolitan…
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Just in: Kirill cancels Vienna Phil
The Berlin Philharmonic chief conductor Kirill Petrenko has…
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New York Phil appoints independent investigator
The orchestra’s president Gary Ginstling has engaged Katya…
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Better school? A late quartet quits Princeton for Yale
The Brentano Quartet, who played the soundtrack on…
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Young Brit takes charge of jittery Dutch band
Jules Buckley, 33, has been announced as music…
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Death of a Dutch conductor, 56
We regret to report the death of Jos Dingemanse,…
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Just in: Clarinet saves life as conductor suffers rehearsal heart attack
The second clarinet saw it happening and acted…
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A big cellist talks about big hair
I’ve been having fun on Sinfini with my…
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La Scala musicians are ‘split 6:4’ over next music director
We are hearing from Milan that the 116…
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Jackie Kennedy writes him a letter about ‘your Mahler’ at four in the morning
The vital new collection of Leonard Bernstein letters…
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The classical agent who used to be a pop star
Friends have been telling us about the life…
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Boston maestro gets hung in Brum
Music director Andris Nelson will not be leaving…
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Yet another big chief walks out on IMG
While we were away, another foundation stone crumbled…
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New video: After the cellphone, the pianist returns a little shakily to Haydn
Many readers have written in to ask what…
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Lou Reed’s obituary – by his wife, Laurie Anderson
In the obituaries section of the East Hampton…
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Dreadful news of a double classical tragedy
In August we reported the death in Hampstead…
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Just in: Ottawa replaces Pinky with a Brit
Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, which has been…
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Decca dies again (US only)
Four years ago, I broke the news that…
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Is this the next Jackie Evancho?
Amira Willighagen, aged 9, is a superwow on…
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NY Phil concertmaster plans his post-job future
We’ve been informed by one of the participants…
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Who opened the floodgates by inventing the chin-rest?
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Pivotal London conductor dies
We’ve been informed of the death of Leslie…
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Leila’s Salonen violin sells for £156,000
The violin with which Leila Josefowicz premiered Esa-Pekka…
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