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Concertgebouw chief quits after just two years
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Of all BBC conductors, which did the leader like best?
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Two big appointments in Paris
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Sudden death of British opera maker
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Boston’s in a Tanglewood of diversity
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UK music director cancels with head injury
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Is this the secret grandma of Finnish music?
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News from another planet
Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, has…
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Orchestras
Hong Kong Sinfonietta changes hands
After 20 years with the popular and progressive…
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Minnesota calls a strike
Musicians of the Minnesota Opera Orchestra have voted…
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Tania León gets London job
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Orchestras
Audience members will sit inside the orchestra when Ivan Fischer conducts Concertgebouw
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Orchestras
All shall have prizes: George Benjamin
The British composer, 63, has been granted the…
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Mourning for a fine French pianist, 88
The elegant and sensitive Gabriel Tacchino has left…
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RIP
Russian piano legend dies, 77
The exceptional Evgeny Mogilevsky, winner of the 1964…
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Music director sues US orchestra for religious discrimination
The experienced conductor David Lockington is suing the…
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Why Beethoven
Beethoven is used to deter gangs
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Nordic man of the year
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