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BBC names Young Musician semi-finalists
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Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
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Maestro wins $190k for wrongful dismissal
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Jürgen Flimm died today, aged 81
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Playing Death and the Maiden at age 13
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The day the Arts Council became an enemy of opera
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The lean, the hungry – and the BBC
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Orchestras
Concertgebouw chief quits after just two years
just as we thought the orchestra was stabilising,…
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RIP
Vienna mourns opera maestro who worked all stages
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Orchestras
Trouble brews in San Francisco
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BBC Cardiff Singer mourns a key selector
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Young musicians to be trained in ‘purposeful travel’
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Shock death of a well-liked British critic
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Opera
How Zubin Mehta became music director in Munich
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How singers rise from South African townships to world fame
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More self-mockery at London’s worst-run concert hall
Under the headline ‘New series brings musical excellence…
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Orchestras
US conductor quits Germany for ‘career plan’ reasons
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Opera
Daniel Barenboim and the final days of Peter Jonas
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