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BBC names Young Musician semi-finalists
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Maestro wins $190k for wrongful dismissal
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Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
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There is nothing more stressful, demoralizing, and soul-sucking than an orchestral audition
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Shock and dismay as international violin competition suspends finals videos
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Burned-out instrument museum issues appeal for help
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José Carreras is learning title role in a new opera
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NY Philharmonic trumpet blows out after 35 years
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David Garrett’s father sues publisher over ‘pressurised’ biography
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Pierre Boulez cancels Paris
The veteran composer and conductor has withdrawn from…
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Death of an admired Beethoven interpreter
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British violinist to lead Kristallnacht remembrance at the Brandenburg Gate
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Musical America’s musician of the year is…
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Pic of the week: the boy who moved a world to tears
In October 2009, Diego Frazao Torquato moved much of…
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Just in: Musical instruments museum destroyed by fire
Italy’s Museum of Musical Instruments, in Reggio Calabria has…
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Garrison Keillor breaks silence on the Minnesota Orchestra
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Angela Gheorghiu to Jonas Kaufmann: Stop singing Wagner
Here’s what she tells a Munich paper: Wagner schrieb…
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Composer is new chief of national opera
Zigmars Liepins, has been appointed artistic director and…
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Help us find the next Liza Connell
The late Elizabeth Connell, a brilliant international soprano…
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New video: English composer child, 8, tours the US talk shows
Alma Deutscher, child of an Israeli language scholar…
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Beatles piano player dies
Mike O’Neill, who played sessions with the Fab…
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Look, no women: it’s the Vienna Philharmonic in Beijing
And the chairman prattles on about Vienna’s gift…
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Breaking: US orchestra appoints music director, 26
Louisville today appointed Teddy Abrams, 26, as music…
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Marianne Faithfull leads Paris homage to Patrice Chéreau
A friend queued yesterday for hours to gain…
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