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The Ring man cometh
Decca is marking the birth centenary of John…
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Berlin Phil drops Rattle
There is no room for Sir Simon Rattle…
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Eye-catching novelties at the BBC Proms
Ignore the annual furore about pop insertions at…
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Barenboim quits Berlin Phil’s Europakonzert
Statement by the Berlin Phil: It is with…
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The world oldest active conductor, at 97?
Message received: My father, Edward Simons who lives…
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Violin stolen at Euston station is being sold at auction
This is a sombre ending. Min-Jin Kym, whose Stradivarius…
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New record for a Guadagnini?
Dorothy DeLay’s teaching fiddle fetched $1,390,999 in an online…
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Two Boys: First review (‘rather brilliant’)
Our friend Paul Pelkonen is first online with…
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Martha Argerich and 8 pianist friends: live stream from Paris tonight
Here’s a link to the live stream of…
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Orchestra cancels concert for lack of one musician
It’s a familiar scenario.A player is taken ill…
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Caveat: Chailly and La Scala is no done deal
Sources close to the conductor Riccardo Chailly inform…
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Alfredo crashes out in middle of Mehta’s Traviata
Trouble last night in Valencia, where the tenor…
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‘Titanic violin’ sells for £900,000
The widely-hyped and widely-disputed violin that supposedly went…
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Of Canada’s 10 top young musicians, one is classical
It’s a blogpost of national significance on the Canadian…
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After City Opera, New York may lose an orchestra
Our WQXR colleague Brian Wise fears the worst…
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Dresden plans to share operas with Sydney and New York
First policy statement from new Semper Oper boss…
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Mass renaming for the arts in Holland
Er, why? And so what? The shoe has…
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Formidable talent spotter calls time after 55 years
Ann Summers Dossena, who managed the careers of George Shirley,…
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How your music tastes change (unseen by social media)
A study in the Journal of Personality and Social…
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Did Anna Nicole kill City Opera?
A report in the impeccably named Non-Profit Quarterly…
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Ex-head of strings is rearrested on pupil rape allegations
Malcolm Layfield, who was forced to resign as…
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Canadian pianist rushed to hospital in mid-recital
The Austrian-born Canadian pianist Anton Kuerti was helped…
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New, improved, updated: Worst classical covers of 2013
It’s time to start assembling a long list….
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Obamacare and the musician: a user’s guide
It is estimated that 43 percent of US…
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