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Orchestras
Barenboim hands over the baton
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last…
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Orchestras
San Antonio is sinking
The SA Philharmonic has cancelled the rest of…
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RIP
Just in: Leif Segerstam has died
The prolific Finnish symphonist and conductor died today…
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Orchestras
Rattle takes on a Haitink intern
The Bernard Haitink Conducting Fellowship, founded by Patricia…
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A French quartet is denied US visa
Message from Jordan Victoria of the Arod Quartet:…
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American Airlines unboarded my cello
They’re back to their wicked old ways. Report…
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Opera
English National Opera goes for stop-gap chief
Jenny Mollica was named this morning Interim Chief…
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News
Exclusive: Anxious BBC won’t disclose costs of cutting orchestras
A freedom-of-information request, seeking to clarifyb the cost…
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Orchestras
Two players leave BBC Symphony. Will they ever be replaced?
The BBC Symphony Orchestra has announced the departure…
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Orchestras
Shocking wage gap in a US orchestra
Players in the New Mexico Philharmonic are paid…
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Why Beethoven
London gets an unscheduled Beethoven cycle
Neither the wokey-woke South Bank nor the unfocussed…
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News
Vienna has new concertmaster
The newly-saved ORF symphony orchestra of Vienna, led…
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News
Jump-in saves rare opera by singing it sight unseen
Astonishing events at Leipzig where Emmerich Kálmán’s little-known…
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Orchestras
Japanese conductor wins Solti award
The Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award for 2023,…
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Orchestras
LSO loses principal second
The violinist David Alberman , who has been…
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News
Hollywood’s first female concertmaster
The University of Southern California has chosen to…
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Orchestras
Boston has new horn. No, not new
The Boston Symphony today ended the search for…
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Opera
Norwegians would? Not if she’s ex-Russian
We reproduce below the dumb refusal by the…
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News
Commentary: What the Edinburgh Festival lacks
Commentary on today’s launch by Hugh Kerr of…
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News
Edinburgh Festival: Benedetti asks the question
The theme of this summer’s Ed Fest,curated for…
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Orchestras
Marin Alsop lands a London orchestra
Among a slew ofotherwise routine season announcements today,…
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News
Alastair Macaulay reviews Rattle’s anthropologically eclectic concert
Our critic got distracted last night by the…
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News
Simon says: It was like this under Thatcher. We say: no it wasn’t
In another of his political interventions, Sir Simon…
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Opera
The Met’s 20k singing prize has six winners
The tenor Anthony León, mezzo-soprano Natalie Lewis, soprano…
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