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Kirill Petrenko on the Middle East
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Just in: Vienna Philharmonic hands baton to a woman
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Dear Alma, I’m a white, male, 30ish conductor. What hope?
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Patron demands SanFran Symphony open its books
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Cabinet minister releases classical piano CD (+video)
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The BBC has just given me more sex than I wanted (+video)
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Classical business: return of the fraudster
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Can't get my head round this: NPR sacks opera host for joining Wall Street protest
Lisa Simeone felt strongly about the financial crisis…
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If reviews are worthless, why quote them?
Dozens of artists have written in, denouncing the…
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Exclusive: Korean orchestra to play at the Vatican
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German court rules sado music 'not harmful' to youth
It has earned them two years’ worth of…
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'I told him those Beatles can't be trusted'
Allan Williams, who sort-of managed the Beatles before…
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Mahler's dinner menu for sale
Details here. Mahler, Gustav – Caruso,…
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British writers gone to the wall
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Breaking: London conductor replaces sacked Russian (update)
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Exclusive: Mahler's first break in America – from a researcher in Vietnam
It has long been assumed that the first…
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And the winner of the first Carlos Kleiber Prize is…
… a youngish Greek conductor, Constantinos Carydis. He’ll get…
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Opera for oldies: Covent Garden's new attraction
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How to buy a record review
The editor of Gramophone has resigned. That’s a…
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Two bosses face fraud charges at Salzburg
The wheels of justice grind slowly in Austria,…
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Mais oui, there is an afterlife
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Is this why Netrebko cancelled Carnegie?
A throwaway remark in a German interview earlier…
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Kremer's festival instals a successor
When Gidon Kremer this summer quit the Lockenhaus…
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What Thielemann did next
He’s topping out the day-long, Europe-wide Franz Liszt…
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