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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
The firm says it is discontinuing Model K,…
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A garden party with Karajan, Furtwängler, Lipatti and friends
Mark Ainley from the Piano Files has posted…
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How Lise Davidsen became opera’s most important star
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Live and let die: Amazon's new Strauss opera
If you’ve bought one Strauss opera on…
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Listen up: the complete book of Christmas carols in two minutes flat
As the first seasonal gift from Slipped Disc,…
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This week’s most-read stories on slipped disc
1 http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/11/breaking-ken-russell-is-dead.html 2 http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/12/classical-music-writer-jailed-for-child-pronography.html 3 http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/12/another-concert-disturbance-at-the-london-philharmonic.html 4 http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/11/the-worlds-best-composer-in-2012-is-a-conductor.html 5 http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/11/which-orchestra-manager-is-paid-the-most.html
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Just in: Kaiser takes $5 million from Russian oligarch
The Kennedy Center has announced plans to open…
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Breaking: Norway's top fiddle collects a suitcase full of Swiss francs
Credit Suisse, a bank, and the Lucerne Festival,…
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EU pays to restore composer's house
It will be 75 years next spring since…
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Another concert disturbance at the London Philharmonic
This time, they waited until the piece was…
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Just in: Arnold Schoenberg is declared Unesco world heritage
Arnold Schoenberg’s documentary estate, thrown onto the street…
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I thought only footballers did cartwheels. But watch this soprano spin…
Her name is Sirkka Lampimäki and she is singing…
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Classical music writer jailed for child pornography
I know the individual concerned and cannot bring…
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Death of an author, trapped between duty and conscience
Christa Wolf, whose death has been announced today…
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Swedes keep changing conductors
Yesterday, Malmo Opera appointed Father Christmas to replace…
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She liked to teach the Finns to sing…
My report yesterday on the oldest working orchestral…
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Germany's top ten December Lieder
Not the kind of Lieder you and I…
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Chailly's out. Boston's options are down to one.
Riccardo Chailly has withdrawn from January’s long-planned concerts…
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Breaking: Santa Claus gets an opera house
I hear the Malmo Opera in Sweden is…
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Is this the oldest working orchestral musician?
Meet Ruth Jeffrey. She’s 97 today and still…
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Just in: death of a great record man
Andrew Kazdin, a stalwart of the CBS Records…
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Richter, the Politburo and the KGB poisoners: another chilling extract
From the Gavrilov memoirs: In 1981 Richter often…
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Pianist finds a body on his front steps
More from Andrei Gavrilov’s KGB memoirs: I was…
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