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Breaking: Yuja cancels Chicago with Klaus
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Just in: Italian opera chief is sentenced to jail
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New concertmaster in Vienna
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien has confirmed that Lucja Madziar…
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City Opera locks out its orchestra and chorus
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A friend's tribute to a much-lamented piano legend
Laurence Dale, director of the Evian Festival, orchestral…
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Sad news: Legendary pianist dies
Family friends are reporting that Alexis Weissenberg died…
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The world's oldest orchestras – a definitive chart
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Just in: President Clinton's chief conductor is dead
William Francis McBeth, professor of music at Ouachita Baptist…
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Breaking: a new Mahler baby is born (update)
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Opera chief drops to his knees begging, 'please help me save my chorus…'
In Copenhagen tonight, Keith Warner, head of the…
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Arts cuts: Denmark is in serious danger of losing the plot
The BBC tonight starts screening a Danish political…
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Is this the oldest German orchestra?
The Badische Staatskapelle of Karlsruhe will launch its…
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A record week on Slipped Disc
For the first time yet, the site had…
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The loveliest musical obituary you will ever read
The Economist magazine devotes its back page to…
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Exclusive: how I blind-tested old violins against new
One of the participants in the controversial Indiannapolis…
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Who was the busiest conductor in 2011? (update)
The Bachtrack.com website annually lists performance statistics for concert halls….
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Just in: wealthy German conductor is dead
Helmut Müller-Brühl was a student of Hermann Abendroth….
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Some time, quite soon, all music reviews will look like this
There’s a fascinating essay in OpenLettersMonthly, a Boston-based…
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How much of Israel's cultural heritage is actually Russian?
In a reflection on the late Yafa Yarkoni published…
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Lawyer tells PayPal: you got it so wrong with that violin
While the online cash-mart crawls under a legal…
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America's classical chart-topper switches agents – to Hollywood
Jackie Evancho, 11 years old, went in for…
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The ranting maestro's gentle grandson
Two tributes have appeared online for Walfredo Toscanini,…
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Hollywood's great concertmaster has left the stage
Israel Baker, who led the studio orchestras for…
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