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A soaring Spanish voice is stilled at 90
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A London orchestra erases John Eliot Gardiner
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Orchestras
Berkeley loses music director
The Berkeley Symphony has announced that Joseph Young…
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Opera
Jonas Kaufmann quits La Scala opening night ‘for family reasons’
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New spin: Monteverdi reignites John Eliot Gardiner’s record label
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Truman Capote’s only musical is up for sale tomorrow
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Biz news: Inter swoops for Carmen
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Opera
Step forward the next Isolde…
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So what do we make of the BBC’s new trance channel?
Yesterday morning, before daybreak, the BBC launched Radio…
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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
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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
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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We reported earlier that Franz Welser-Möst had withdrawn…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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Two violin dealers pull pistols at dawn
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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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