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Conductor waves white flag at Vienna Opera
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Free Nico Muhly concert from your favourite newspaper
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Breaking: major label is sold
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Minczuk watch: unease at Canada competition
The embattled conductor is down to appear at…
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Death of a Broadway Lion
The playwright Arthur Laurents, who wrote West Side…
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Bankrupt nation opens new concert hall
Iceland’s creditors will be warmed to learn that…
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Fly me, I love classical music
The May issue of Das Orchester magazine, obligatory…
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Is this the most expensive concert yet?
A friend has sent me details of an…
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Was Mahler the harbinger of today's celebrity cult?
In the May issue of Standpoint, out now,…
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BP heads for Olympic bid
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Brazil – orchestra responds to international boycott
Here’s a letter sent by the Brazilian Symphony…
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Those Minczuk UK concerts and auditions
In addition to his May 12 concert in…
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11 worst-hit US orchestras
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Slipped Disc keeps on rising up the charts
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Good catch for the Scots
That estimable orchestra of the north, The Royal…
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Muti maketh money
Riccardo Muti has just been awarded the Prince…
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Is Texas falling to pieces
First Dallas Symphony loses its COO, Paul Stewart….
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News just in: Barenboim whips up a storm in Gaza
Daniel Barenboim conducted his first concert in Gaza…
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Rebel concert in Rio: first report
Here’s an account of the concert given by…
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Nastiest opera ever – first pictures
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Happy birthday, Zubin
He’s 75 today. Who knew? Not many men…
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