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Breaking: Yuja cancels Chicago with Klaus
We’re hearing that Yuja Wang has dropped out…
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Just in: Italian opera chief is sentenced to jail
Days after starting work as sovrintendente of the…
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Orchestras
New concertmaster in Vienna
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien has confirmed that Lucja Madziar…
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Breaking: Head of strings resigns at Royal College of Music
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Confirmed: Met's longest serving artist is dead
We are hearing from singers that Charles Anthony…
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Guess what? A living composer's symphony tops the US classical charts
Probably hasn’t happened since Gorecki #3. I’ve just…
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New: Slipped Disc launches weekly exchange with Open Letters Monthly
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Eight year-old Russian girl plays Schoenberg serial work from memory
He once said that milkmen would whistle his…
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Gergiev flies Welsh kids choir to Russia for his Mahler 8th
Not to be outdone by competing events in…
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Dory Previn, RIP
She was Andre’s first wife, co-nominated for two…
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Pittsburgh nails its conductor for the decade
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra survived the overnight departure…
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Chicago jazz founder dies
Jodie Christian, who played all the way through…
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'Just do it again, first verse a capella': Whitney's music director remembers
Many have wondered how Whitney Houston brought off…
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Video just in: Paul McCartney lays flowers for Whitney Houston
No fuss, just the decent thing to do.
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Just in, still dusting: original Elgar score turns up in council clear-out
They were clearing out a council building in…
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Bad taste award: the crappiest headline of the year
It’s a top-drawer Daily Mail story: pseudo-science meets…
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Much-loved diva calls time on Munich, claiming she was sacked
Edita Gruberova told her fans that she will…
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Just in: Boulez pulls out of Chicago
After cancelling three concerts in Cleveland, Pierre Boulez…
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Boston's troubled NEC: who else was employing reformed sex offender?
Angry music teachers have drawn our attention to…
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Dudamel's DG Grammy winner – no plans for release
My sources at Universal/DG say that, despite winning…
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The orchestra that can't find its head
Ever since Simon Taylor left in the summer…
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Musicians: only iTunes makes you money
Streaming services deliver no bread. That’s the finding…
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Who gets to play Paganini in the big-budget biopic?
Yep, it’s him. Read all about it in…
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Emerson Quartet loses cellist, hires English conductor (update)
David Finckel has decided to leave the Emersons,…
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