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BBC names Young Musician semi-finalists
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Maestro wins $190k for wrongful dismissal
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Orchestras
Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe…
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There is nothing more stressful, demoralizing, and soul-sucking than an orchestral audition
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Riccardo Muti’s next move
The maestro is 82 today and the Italian…
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Orchestras
It looks like Cape Cod has unhooked its music director
For the past 16 years the Cape Symphony…
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Argerich lines up big bash in BA with ex-hub Dutoit
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Eagle falls
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Italy replaces ‘old’ opera boss with ex-radio chief
Under the new Giorgia Meloni law which requires…
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Atlanta boldly goes with Stutzmann where Philadelphia fears to tread
We reported last week that Philly had cancelled…
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Prague asks Kyiv if it should allow Netrebko to sing
Prague’s deputy mayor Jiri Pospisil is consulting the…
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Orchestras
Exclusive: LA Phil in executive turmoil
We’re hearing that the LA Phil’s interim chief…
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Last holdout label joins the streaming revolution
When Universal Music bought fiercely-independent Hyperion in February…
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Orchestras
San Fran changes principal cello after 49 years
San Francisco Opera Orchestra has chosen Evan Kahn…
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Selling off the church where English music came to mourn
Our colleague Clare Stevens, attending the Three Choirs…
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Orchestras
Berlin Phil violinist becomes chief conductor in Australia
Sydney Youth Orchestra has appointed Stanley Dodds as…
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How London ceased to be a music capital
From my monthly essay in The Critic, out…
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ENO receives £24m stay of execution
Arts Council England is throwing more money at…
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Sinead O’Connor, RIP
The iconoclastic Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has died…
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Just in: Ukraine is troubled by a smuggled Stradivarius
Ukrainian news sites are carying the following story:…
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Orchestras
An American bone in Melbourne
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has chosen Mark Davidson…
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Pianists give their views on applause between movements
An interesting thread is developing on Twitter. I…
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