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Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe…
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Barenboim hands over the baton
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last…
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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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Alberto Vilar is being held in a cell with no heating, books or music
This is the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn,…
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Just in: Music biz mobilises for Philippines disaster
Press release: NOVEMBER 25, 2013 — The global music…
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Another victim of UK music school decides to share his tale
The author, known to us, has never shared…
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How to get your best-ever concert picture from Twitter
The Finnish coloratura soprano Anu Komsi saw people…
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The month Germany lost two giants
December 1963 saw the deaths of two German…
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The bicentennial composer that France forgot
This year, as the world celebrated centenaries of…
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30 years ago, he composed the first-ever commission by a gay men’s chorus
A colleague and friend remembers Conrad Susa, who…
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New video: This artist plays two pianos at once
This is Louis Schwizgebel, a BBC New Generation…
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Video: Netrebko, newly single, rehearses Trovatore in Berlin
‘Its a damned difficult role,’ says the diva,…
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Guess who’s 70 today
He’s battling cancer and he divides opinion wherever…
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Singer is shot dead in smoking dispute
Some said no good would come of smoking…
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German orchestra manager calls for new national strategy
While public attention is drawn to SWR’s attempt…
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Read this: A victim of abuse at UK music school appeals for others to come forward
A reader has asked us to post the…
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What a would-be opera star did when ill-health killed her hopes
Elizabeth Lewis Celeste was on track to make…
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Just in: As Venezuela becomes a dictatorship, a citizen composes her protest
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has seized powers to…
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Video: How to play Paganini with a two-inch bow
This is how. h/t: David Hutchings
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Would you vote for a man with nothing but musical clichés between his ears?
Ed Milliband’s choice of Desert Island Discs –…
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Netrebko gets a new Uruguayan
They’ve solved the missing tenor problem in Berlin’s…
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He wrote the jingle for De Gaulle airport
Bernard Parmegiani, who has died aged 85, was…
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Composer gets his name on a Hollywood block
Steven Spielberg and John Williams were there to…
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