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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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Steinway scraps upright after 120 years
The firm says it is discontinuing Model K,…
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Job of the Week: Travelling Mahler
Project Manager at the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, based…
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A garden party with Karajan, Furtwängler, Lipatti and friends
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Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
I have borrowed Walter Laqueur’s vivid metaphor of…
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Unforgotten Sue
A new award has been announced in memory…
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How Glenn Gould got split in two
Christopher Robson has kindly sent me the story…
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Can't resist sharing this video: the Master plays Hatikvah
A kind soul has just flagged up this…
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What Schoenberg did on Yom Kippur
A fascinating blog in the LA Times fills…
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Breaking: Israel bans Wagner cinecast from the Met
The Metropolitan Opera was all cockahoop a few weeks…
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Best opera house in Europe?
The German magazine Opernwelt has chosen its opera…
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Last tickets for The Passenger
Following a spate of negative responses in the…
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Just in: Dame Granite wins a Gramo
Delighted to see on Guy Damann’s tweets that…
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Swedish poet wins Nobel. They kept it local, again.
Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer has won the 2011 Nobel…
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It was standing room only when Youtube's favourite pianist turned up in a village church
Here’s the first account I have received from…
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The Nobel-winning German writer whose brother saved the French chanson
In Paris this week working on a forthcoming…
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Breaking: Vienna finds a successor to Luisi
The next music director of the Vienna Symphony…
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Israeli orchestra drops singer because she's female
An extraordinary story from Ashdod in Israel, where…
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A college idol is no more (+video)
Bert Jansch, the fast-fingered Scottish folk musician who…
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Lars von Trier seals his lips after police inquiry
The Danish director, who made an offensive comment…
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Will conductors ever learn?
I had an interesting head-to-head yesterday on WQXR…
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More sadness: Tubular Bells man has died
I have just received news of the death…
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Sad news: Dance legend dies
The Royal Opera House has announced the death…
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Is Helsinki's new concert hall worth the money?
Here’s my view, out today in Standpoint magazine.
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