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Berlin Phil drops Rattle
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Klaus Mäkelä books himself as solo cellist
The incoming Chicago Symphony chief has just published…
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New York Philharmonic: Mostly women
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Just in: Jonas Kaufmann names Israeli conductor
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Opera becomes an app
Opera magazine, parish newssheet of hard-core devotees, has…
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Pots and kettles
The BBC’s Culture Show is making a film…
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tweeto ergo sum
A Dutch-American blogger, Marc van Bree, has compiled…
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Playing politics with British arts
The first victim of the next Conservative government…
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My best singing pupil, ever, ever, ever
Here’s a round-robin from the head of opera at…
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What happens to the arts when a newspaper goes free?
The London Evening Standard, which I served as…
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Prime minister lays into arts chiefs
At the memorial service for Geoffrey Tozer in…
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Latest from Latvia
A press release from Riga informs me that…
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How Larrocha created Pavarotti
My friend Paul Myers, formerly chief producer at CBS…
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Thinkin' bout Alicia
Long before I listened to records for a…
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New Strads for Old
Who says Cremona always sounds best? A blind…
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In a critical condition (6)
Twelve hours after the curtain fell on Le…
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Macabre? No, it's a metaphor for cruelty and financial crash
The composer György Ligeti once said that every…
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Beethoven does the Beatles
Last weekend in Bonn, I heard an a capella…
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Some more super stats
The BBC Proms have ended with another set…
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Vienna bewilders the Proms
There was mild bemusement among hard-core concertgoers and…
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More cause for mourning, down under
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, Rupert’s centenarian Mum, enjoys mother-of-the-nation…
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Why does everything have to be God vs Dawkins?
The discussion of whether one religion is respected…
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Barenboim's cognitive dissonance
Most musical responses, public and private, to my discussion of religious anomalies in…
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It's Miller tonight – and nothing lite about it
The director Jonathan Miller, inventor of time-shift opera, is…
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