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Barenboim hands over the baton
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last…
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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
The Serenade in C K 648 for two…
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BBC names Young Musician semi-finalists
A televised selection process that raised concerns about…
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New video: Is this sneezing girl giving a great singer a dose of flu?
Check out the new Alka-Seltzer ad (below). Beside…
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Bizarre: Bob Dylan is charged with inciting racial hatred
A group of Croats has taken exception to…
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Death of an enterprising viola
We have been informed of the death, aged…
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Musician ‘nearly died’ for sax
Couldn’t resist. Read here.
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How to win Met seats for $25 (if you don’t mind bad neighbours)
Our pair of New York ingenus, Elizabeth Frayer and…
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Sick list: Cough sweet man steps in for sinus-stricken Yannick
MTT gets a Carnegie date after the Canadian…
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UK music school is shocked by sudden student death
The Purcell School has announced the death of…
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Breaking: Bolshoi chief conductor quits – with immediate effect
Vasily Sinaisky, an excellent and experienced conductor, walked…
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Wagner in Jerusalem: all talk and not one note of music
The conductor Frédéric Chaslin has put together a…
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Unauthenticated: Kim Kardashian’s reply to Maestro Maazel
A draft communication, dropped into our box, appears…
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Beethoven is inked into German coalition agreement
How’s this for cultural priorities? Chancellor Angela Merkel…
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What is it about Hungarian composers?
My album of the week on sinfinimusic.com is…
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Theft alert: Precious viola stolen in Brussels break-in
The viola player Maria Jose Igual has been robbed…
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Oman opera chief: No sex on my stage, please.
Christina Scheppelmann, former head of artistic operations at…
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Chicago mourns huge bass trombone
Edward Kleinhammer, bass trombonist of the Chicago Symphony…
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Smart kid from Chet’s makes record debut
His name’s Callum Smart and he’s not yet…
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Mahler-inflected Serbo-Swede wins world’s biggest composition prize
The 2013 Grawemeyer Prize has gone to Djuro Zivkovic for…
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Eye-opener: Lorin Maazel discovers Kim Kardashian
The things that cross a maestro’s mind… you…
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How conductors sounded (8): Stokowski talks about drinking with Rachmaninov and Sibelius
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Health update on Mariss Jansons
Hours after having to give up on Tchaikovsky’s fifth…
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