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Barenboim hands over the baton
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San Antonio is sinking
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Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe…
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Blomstedt, 97, premieres adolescent Mozart
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Policeman is praised for playing piano (badly) while on duty
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Gergiev’s Holland Festival faces chop for anti-gay stance
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Just in: Germany gets new culture minister
Bernd Neumann, the most pro-culture minister in Europe,…
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Video: David Garrett pays for restoration of Holocaust violins
The German violin star, on tour in Israel,…
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Just in: Salzburg loses Zubin Mehta
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New video: In the Ukrainian revolution, a pianist plays Chopin’s revolutionary étude
Antoinette, a Kiev Conservatory student, plays Chopin’s Revolutionary…
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Hot tip: How to be #1 in the classical charts
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Death of a screen legend who sang in just one musical
Peter O’Toole, who died today aged 81, starred…
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Rich town kills orchestra, then slashes theatre
Guildford, a picture-postcard kind of town in southeast…
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A rabid violin teacher left me with stage fright for life
Lisa Riley Fogler, moderator of Facebook Violinists, cannot…
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Viola takes Berlin
In China, 2014 will be the year of…
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Only one woman gets through to ‘leading’ conducting contest (and she’s Irish)
The finalists have been announced for the 11th…
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New video: Daniil Trifonov – ‘I wake up with Schoenberg in my head’
In an intimate, concentrated interview, the Tchaikovsky-winning young…
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First, they executed the musicians…
The world looks on aghast as the North…
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Performance anxiety? Our psychotherapist advises how to cope with stage freeze
Dr Gerald Stein of Chicago has contributed several…
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Pop star, 24, gives $100,000 to her local Symphony
The tabloids are full of Taylor Swift’s 24th…
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Video: Venezuela’s new conductor – just 16 years old
This is José Ángel Salazar Marín. He has…
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Bob Chilcott writes carol in memory of organist who was murdered on Christmas Eve
Alan Greaves was murdered in Sheffiled last year…
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NEA announces fair/unfair annual grants for music and opera
Full lists here and here. The biggest grants…
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Kissin to Jewish musicians: Come join me in Israel
We have received first video of the great…
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