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Album Of The Week
The anniversary that failed
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It’s curtains for violin comedians
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Daily Comfort Zone
It’s a first for Itzhak Perlman
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Triple Bach: Does it get any better?
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Opera
Fire forces opera to move across town
From Steve Swartz in Baltimore: Baltimore, MD –…
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Orchestras
Danish quartet win $150k
Denmark’s highest musical honour, the Leonie Sonning Music…
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RIP
Death of French maestro, 68
Message received: The Forum Voix Etouffées regrets to…
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Daily Comfort Zone
Hallo? Is that Clara Schumann’s phone?
Students at the West Saxon University of Applied…
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Orchestras
Barenboim hands over the baton
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last…
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Orchestras
Blomstedt, 97, premieres adolescent Mozart
The Serenade in C K 648 for two…
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Orchestras
Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe…
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Orchestras
A bassoon is stolen in Brooklyn
From Sara Schoenbeck, a teacher at the Brooklyn…
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RIP
The pianist they slaughtered on October 7
Yuval Buyum, 21, was a dedicated pianist who…
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Orchestras
Bayreuth plans Nazi documentation centre
The town of Bayreuth is planning a Nazi…
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Orchestras
All shall have prizes: Portugal, Korea, Russia
Portuguese mezzo Cláudia Ribas (pictured) has won the…
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RIP
France’s ‘sad clown’ commissioned his own concerto
The death of the iconic French actor Michel…
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News
BBC names Young Musician semi-finalists
A televised selection process that raised concerns about…
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Opera
Another Putin job for Valery Gergiev
The head of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theatres…
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Orchestras
Exclusive: Minnesota Orchestra selects musicians on racial grounds
We have received a message from the orchestra…
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Orchestras
There is nothing more stressful, demoralizing, and soul-sucking than an orchestral audition
Dear Alma, I flew to Europe for a…
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News
Maestro wins $190k for wrongful dismissal
The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra has been ordered to…
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Opera
How Lise Davidsen became opera’s most important star
From my monthly essay in The Critic: Stars…
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Album Of The Week
Album of the week: Don’t balk at the Balkans
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: There’s…
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Opera
Jonas Kaufmann is out with Covid
Message from Teatro San Carlo, in Napoli: Jonas…
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