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Maestro wins $190k for wrongful dismissal
The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra has been ordered to…
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Steinway scraps upright after 120 years
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How Lise Davidsen became opera’s most important star
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Jonas Kaufmann is out with Covid
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Listening to radio. Actually listening, not just hearing it.
A dozen francophone friends came round last night…
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Better dead than read: the Guardian slashes obituaries
It’s hardly worth dying any more. The Guardian,…
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Phew! Fallen Met mezzo gets sent home
Wendy White, who fell eight feet from an…
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Havel: National Theatre bids farewell
The following statement was read last night at…
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Violin dealer sent to Vienna for trial
The flamboyant violin dealer Dietmar Machold will not…
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Singer falls eight feet from Met stage. One accident too many this year
Wendy White is stable in hospital, according to…
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Vaclav Havel: a voice in my ear
One balmy summer’s evening in 1990, I went…
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Breaking: Vaclav Havel is dead (update)
Vaclav Havel, the Czech dissident who became post-Communist…
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This week’s most-read stories on slipped disc
1 http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/12/breaking-early-music-giant-calls-it-quits.html 2 http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/12/yale-professor-hungary-could-be-going-fascist.html 3 http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/12/just-in-mezzo-confirmed-as-new-head-of-finnish-opera.html 4 http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/12/angelas-night-in-an-oil-well-with-vangelis-first-pictures.html 5 http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/12/is-sibelius-sending-messages-from-the-great-beyond.html
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New study: learning an instrument helps disadvantaged kids to read
Some stunning results are reported from a voluntary…
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Pope Benedict to canonize woman composer
Hildegard of Bingen has been waiting nine centuries…
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Just in: Barefoot diva is dead
Cesaria Evora, the Cap Verde diva who called…
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The oldest pianist ever to make a record debut?
Boyd Lee Dunlop, a Buffalo legend, is 85….
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The man who outspent the European Bank
He is best known outside France as the…
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Throat-struck mezzo makes perfect Vienna comeback
Elisabeth Kulman was rehearsing Brangaene in Tristan und…
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Facebook 'like' better than all other fan promos, say musicians
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All three majors gang up on Groove. Next target: Google
A sign of the times. A couple of…
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I'm giving very serious thought… Hannibal Lecter releases classical CD
I tootled down to Cardiff in the summer…
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Breaking: CBS News has appointed a cultural correspondent and it's W…
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The Jewish side of Barbara
I have written a piece in tomorrow’s JC,…
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