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Why Mahler
Can Gergiev still do Mahler?
Early in his international career, Valery Gergiev professed…
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Orchestras
Vintage shot: Telling a conductor what he’s worth
This is the forbidding Erich Leinsdorf, conducting the…
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RIP
Livewire mezzo, RIP
Ars Choralis Coeln has announced the death of…
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Minnesota concertmaster, RIP
The death has been made known of Lea…
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Orchestras
Film composer gives $2m to orchestra to fund works by … film composers
Variety reports a gift of $2 million to…
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Orchestras
Just in: NY Phil confirms dismissal of two principals
Deborah Borda, acting CEO, confirmed today that principal…
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Orchestras
Leonard Bernstein: Some conductors I have loved
A Kennedy Center interview with LB dropped irresistibly…
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RUTH REINHARDT / RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC BEGIN PARTNERSHIP
Audiences can be there from the beginning of…
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Classic FM howler of the day
You really couldn’t make it up. Well, they…
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Orchestras
Seven diversities join the Chineke board
The multi-ethnic British orchestras, which is tightening its…
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Orchestras
An unwary maestro enters the Malyasian trap
The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra has a terrible reputation…
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Orchestras
Update: Igor Levit won’t play without Franz
We reported earlier that Franz Welser-Möst had withdrawn…
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RIP
Hollywood’s music king is dead
The inimitable Quincy Jones died yesterday, aged 91….
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Orchestras
Franz Welser-Möst, recovering, withdraws from Beethoven cycle
The Cleveland music director, who has received successful…
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News
What, no doubts about that pretty Chopin waltz?
Last week, the New York Times had a…
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News
Two violin dealers pull pistols at dawn
The lucrative, secretive business of buying and selling…
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Orchestras
A critic takes a sledgehammer to a celebrated pianist
The Parisian music critic Alain Lompech (pictured) has…
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Orchestras
The maestro’s son is also rising
From my latest monthly essay in The Critic…
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Ruth Leon recommends… Henri Matisse in 60 seconds – Royal Academy of Art
Henri Matisse in 60 seconds This Sunday will…
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Check out Yuja Wang’s biggest fan
‘He came to our concert!’ she exclaims on…
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Opera
Netrebko will sing Prima Donna… in German
The Vienna State Opera has confirmed that Anna…
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Daily Comfort Zone
Hallelujah as never before
A mass performance by 2,500 singers in Montreal….
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News
The Met violinist who is playing the election
A member of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, Sarah…
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Album Of The Week
So who’s the French composer everybody loves?
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Fauré…
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