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Barenboim hands over the baton
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Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe…
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Blomstedt, 97, premieres adolescent Mozart
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Claudio Abbado receives plaque in Berlin
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Album Of The Week
First masterpiece of the Covid era?
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BBC upgrades a conductor
The jeopardised BBC Concert Orchestra has been headless…
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The Met played all season one-third empty
Figures released at the close of the Met…
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Opera
On Bloomsday, James Joyce talks us through his Opera
Based on the Penelope chapter of Ulysses, Old…
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‘In 4-5 years, there won’t be any classical artists’
The Portuguese pianist Maria Joao Pires has given…
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Breaking: Climate protesters disrupt Glyndebourne
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Arena di Verona opens tomorrow with the Netrebkos
The Italian festival will tomorrow give the controversial…
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SWR: Currentzis does not support Putin’s war
The southwest German station has issued a defence…
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RIP
A Klemperer leader has died
The Colombian violinist Carlos Villa, appointed concertmaster of…
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RIP
Glenda, RIP
The outstanding English actor and politician Glenda Jackson…
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Orchestras
Yuja Wang drops in on teacher
Enjoying some down time in New York, Yuja…
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Pretty Yende’s sister reaches BBC Cardiff Singer of the World final
Viewers have been commenting that the standards of…
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Orchestras
Elim Chan quits her orchestra
The Hong Kong-born conductor has told the Antwerp…
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Kirill Petrenko goes guest conducting
After devoting himself body and soul to the…
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A French international orchestra shuts down
The equal-opportunity orchestra Les Dissonances will give its…
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Library of Congress acquires John Adams’s papers
The world’s largest library announced today that it…
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Orchestras
US orchestras erase music from their annual conference
Our hawk-eyed observers at the forthcoming League of…
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Orchestra asks: why do we need a music director?
In many conversations over the past four years,…
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