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Steinway scraps upright after 120 years
The firm says it is discontinuing Model K,…
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Scientists say cellists have more stress than violinists
Scientists at King’s College London believe they can…
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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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Job of the Week: Travelling Mahler
Project Manager at the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, based…
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The man behind the camera: his name is Mr Pic
The Opéra de Paris is staging an online…
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All washed up with an artist's tea-towel
A chance exchange with a former Covent Garden…
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'They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil': no more
Edmundo Ros, who wrote that theme song to…
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Why is this German maestro receiving a London honour?
I am struggling to understand why the Royal…
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World heritage alert: Janacek's opera house faces closure
Alarming news from the Czech Republic. The city…
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Portraits of Mahler – by a kindergarten class in Vienna
I have been sent these drawings by Gregor Dekleva,…
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And now for some Liszt on the fiddle (+video)
A while back, I warned you that Liszt’s…
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The List of Liszts (a members-only event)
This Sunday, to mark the 200th birthday of…
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A second orchestra starts restoring a church
First it was the London Symphony Orchestra restoring…
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Ozawa, looking better, accepts Japanese 'Nobel'
Pictures have just come online of the Japanese…
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A few bicycle Handel bars through the streets of Amsterdam
Meet Daria van den Bercken. I did, yesterday…
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Human Rights Foundation condemns 'disheartening and shameful' violinist
The HRF has issued a statement attacking those…
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Something rotten in the state of Denmark
The New York Times today reports that Nicholas…
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Icebreaker: musicians invite maestro to their sauna
I reported a few weeks back that musicians…
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Sad tidings: orchestra manager dead at 66
I have just heard from a colleague in…
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Nightmare on Fima Street
Yefim Bronfman is having a bad month. First…
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Letter from Paul McCartney: 'Please would you like to join my group…'
Christie’s Kensington are putting on sale a handwritten…
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The corpses began to stink – and the rehearsal went on
I was chatting last night at DCMM-2011 to…
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Two anniversaries of the week
Not many outside the French-speaking world will notice…
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Mahler's Symphony of 1,000 returns home
Mariss Jansons conducted a performance in Munich, where…
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