Obituary: Buddy DeFranco, Jazz clarinetist

Boniface Ferdinand Leonardo (Buddy) DeFranco, clarinettist: born Camden, New Jersey 17 February 1923; died Panama City, Florida 24 December 2014



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Children with mental health issues 'should learn the violin'

Professor of psychiatry James Hudziak of the University of Vermont College of Medicine said the findings bolstered his hypothesis that a violin might help a child battle psychological disorders even better than a bottle of pills.



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CEO and President of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra Hyun-jung quits

Park’s career fell apart when 17 of the Seoul Philharmonic’s employees testified in a petition that she constantly abused them, with one male employee claiming that she had too much to drink at a public dinner gathering and grabbed him by the necktie, attempting to touch his genitals.



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Vater und Tochter spielen bei Neujahrskonzert

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Painted cellos in 'cello-bration' of orchestra

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2014's Best and Worst in Chicago Classical Music

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My Instrument: The story behind a platinum flute

"For a woodwind instrument, something made in 1938 is very old to be playing today."



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Jim Zirin-Has Peter Gelb Saved the Metropolitan Opera?-

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Park University Student Appointed Concertmaster of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

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What happens when ballet dancers bump into a busking string quartet?

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NYC's Metropolitan Opera, Burning Cash, Collateralizes Chagalls

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Principal clarinetist Franklin Cohen announces plans to retire from Cleveland Orchestra

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Klemperer inquisitor has died

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Paul Renzi, longtime SF Symphony flutist, dies at 88

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An open letter to L.A. Philharmonic's president

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Cellist plays Katy Perry cover with live tiger

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Pierre Boulez awarded Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award

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John Rutter's Christmas playlist

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Philharmonic executive director David Pratt leaving Savannah

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Top conductors departing San Diego Opera and San Diego Symphony

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Despicable attack on violinist

That Suzuki could be guilty of such a thing as fabricating part of his wonderful biography “Nurtured by Love: A New Approach to Education” is truly unthinkable.



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Ian Bostridge's Christmas playlist

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Mac on...The cellist banned from breastfeeding her daughter by an exclusive club

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Andrew Litton to Lead New York City Ballet Orchestra

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Chance discovery casts new light on origins of polyphonic music

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Janis Martin, operatic mezzo turned soprano, is dead at 75

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Arts Council England hires Classic FM boss as new CEO

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5 best classical music moments of 2014

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5 worst classical music moments of 2014

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'The least subsidised opera house in Europe'

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Club bars cellist they had booked to play from breastfeeding her daughter

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Jacksonville Symphony names Robert Massey new president, CEO

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Despite small budget Bay-Atlantic Symphony makes large impact on community -

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Mozart and Multiculturalism

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The pampered Christmas turkeys who listen to classical music

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Classical music is evolving, says Cleveland Orchestra bassist Derek Zadinsky

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Elim Chan wins 2014 Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition

The 28-year-old UK conductor is competition’s first female winner



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Detroit Symphony Orchestra finances once again in black - The Detroit News

As if reluctant to puncture the good feeling following the city's exit from bankruptcy, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at its annual meeting Thursday reported encouraging numbers across most key categories.



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Donation to Ukrainian Opera House Puts Netrebko in a Political Spotlight

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Viola stolen from Philadelphia musician

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Violin-playing busker, ten, raises £32000 for charity in just eight months

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Kyung Wha Chung: 'I have always welcomed children to my concerts'

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The violinist Lydia Mordkovitch has died

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British court sends ex-S.C. Philharmonic conductor to prison

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Arts cuts could mean final chord for Ulster orchestra

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State orchestras hog Australia Council funding

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Opera singer Anna Netrebko poses with Ukrainian separatist flag

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Mark O'Connor Fans a Debate About the Suzuki Method

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Police and protesters clash in Milan as La Scala opera season opens

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Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko donates one-million-rouble /18,980 U.S. dollars/ certificate to Donetsk Opera

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Blind singer learns visual art of conducting a choir

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Haughty airline humiliates youth orchestra

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Home Crime and Courts Story Peninsula Symphony ex-director faces 16 years for embezzlement; first strike was wife's death

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Violinist James Ehnes and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra bring classical complexities to the UAE

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Ones to watch

Up-and-Coming Conductors



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The 600-year-old Chinese Kunqu opera to enthral audiences in India

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$38 Million Grant to Bolster Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

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Pianist Barry Douglas makes his point over Stormont cuts to arts

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Who, what, why: How do you stop people coughing during a classical concert?

An academic paper published last year found that people cough in concerts twice as much as they do elsewhere. Jonathan Bloxham, a conductor and artistic director of the Northern Chords chamber music festival, has a theory. "We as animals do tend to mimic those around us," he says. "When one person coughs around us there can be a chain reaction."



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Orchestra president hit by flurry of accusations

Employees from the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra released a statement on Tuesday appealing for the expulsion of Park Hyun-jung, their current president, insisting that their 52-year-old leader had violated their human rights.



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A Veteran Falls Sick, and a Rising Star Gets His Big Break

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Orchestras and children's TV producers in line for tax break from Autumn

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Was Kyung Wha Chung right to upbraid a coughing child disturbing her recital?

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Minnesota Orchestra declares a 'remarkable year' after posting small deficit

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Regeringen taber afstemning: Flertal tryner Jelved i orkestersag

Et beslutningsforslag på fire linjer om at bevare DR's omdiskuterede Underholdningsorkester har bragt den danske regering i mindretal.



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Dallas Symphony Orchestra Musicians Slam Conductor Jaap van Zweden for ... - Classicalite

ClassicaliteDallas Symphony Orchestra Musicians Slam Conductor Jaap van Zweden for ...ClassicaliteThe Dallas Symphony Orchestra has had some internal beef with conductor Jaap van Zweden. While Zweden and audiences around the globe have heralded the orchestra's meteoric rise from 2008, the musicians are playing hardball with their maestro.



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Comeback soloist ‘picks on coughing child’

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Conductor Skrowaczewski awarded Polish honour

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What’s the point of a competition if it won’t give first prize?

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Interview with a violin master with a long history but who prefers our time.

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Belfast City Council to stump up £100k for orchestra

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Pete Townshend announces symphonic reimagining of Quadrophenia

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An AIDS Quilt Songbook: Sing for Hope

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This violin is made from 16000 matchsticks and actually works

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Mass art forms are falling out of fashion, director Peter Sellars warns

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Ralph Myers: let's keep the dreamers in charge of the arts

The creeping replacement of artistic leaders with managers doesn’t just threaten arts organisations but Australian cultural life, says Belvoir’s artistic director in the annual Philip Parsons memorial lecture



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Pictures at an audition for the Vienna Philharmonic

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Iran classical musician refuses French high distinction

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English National Opera's unlikely star revealed to be US street dancer

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Celebrating Panufnik, a Polish Composer in London

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Venezuelan Classical Music System Under Fire

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Pakistan's first indigenous entry to the Grammys

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George Osborne hints at orchestra tax break in Autumn statement

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A Squirrel Plays The Flute In 'The Nutcracker'

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Violinist Chung: back from finger collapse, to play the 'one note'

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Aldeburgh Music's Friday Afternoons: Watch it live

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Thank you: musicians recall special ways their parents helped them blossom

“They wanted an African-American teacher so I could see a classical musician who looked like me, to show me that there were African-American classical musicians out there,”



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Welsh National Opera DEADLINE EXTENDED 10:00AM, 12th December 2014

for No.3 First Violin & Section Principal 2nd Violin auditions



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Opera di Roma, plebiscito sull'accordo: ritirati i licenziamenti

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Sydney Youth Orchestras in turmoil after board gives McBride marching orders

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The $7-Million Violin

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ouisiana Philharmonic Orchestra trumpets $2 million fundraising success and a debt-free future

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Quack composer Samuragochi contests ¥61 million damages over canceled tour

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Gender Is Not an Issue for Mälkki the Conductor

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Opera star: Young Artist Programs are ripping off young artists

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Could Chicago Symphony site disrupt DuPage County's blue heron population?

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Auf der Trauerfeier erklang ihr eigenes Klavierspiel

In der Kirchenkapelle des Alten Friedhofs ertönen die Klavieraufnahmen eines Kammerkonzerts. Es kam vom Band, war die Musik zur Trauerfeier der Pianistin des Bonner Beethoven-Orchesters.



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Science Finally Explains Why Talented Musicians Always Get the Girl

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Veteran violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter brings her group of proteges to Kennedy center

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Flash mob: Under-threat Ulster Orchestra at St George's Market, Belfast

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Casablanca piano sells for $2.9m in New York auction

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On the hunt for new audiences, Bob Riley and the Manchester Camerata are going where other orchestras fear to tread

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Insegnante in prognosi riservata. Donna arrestata da polizia

Violin teacher is shot in southern Italy



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Roll Over, Mahler: US Orchestras Are Shrinking

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Behind the scenes of a drone orchestra

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Can new conductor beat Ling's $429960 deal?

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Minnesota Opera's president resigns

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Russian conductor barred from German music festival

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Met Opera ends season with $22 million deficit

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Jahja Ling to leave San Diego Symphony

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Orchestra London musicians sound alarm on leadership

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Baghdad's ballet school: a tiny island of creativity amid inescapable violence

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Opera groups concerned Federal Government funding

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7-Year-Old Girl Wants to Bring Peace to Ferguson with Her Violin

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Drive Brings Thousands of Instruments for Aspiring Musicians in Public Schools

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Ivey Dickson obituary

Ivey Dickson, who has died aged 95, was a multi-talented musician, but will be chiefly remembered for rescuing the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYO) from extinction in 1966 by agreeing to be its musical director.



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Composer Hans Zimmer: 'The Music Industry Has Run Itself Into The Ground'

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How one Australian symphony orchestra protects players' ears

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Rome's opera house saved from the brink of closure

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Scientists Discovered Something Amazing About Musicians' Brains

Songs about memories make up a huge portion of our musical canon. Whether about a past love, a loved one who's passed or an old sound, music is almost always in some way about memory.



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No first prize awarded at France’s Mirecourt International Violin Competition

Second prize was jointly awarded to Nathan Mierdl and Jian Ren



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US Airways refuses to carry double bass, says Time for Three musician

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How the Minnesota Orchestra got its mojo back

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Bayreuth pulls the plug on controversial director

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Inside the secret operation to exhume Frédéric Chopin's heart

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High ticket prices make a mockery of English National Opera being the People's opera

The ENO must charge less and tour more



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'An education in the arts is limited to the economically privileged. It is an unjust waste of national talent’

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24 GoPro cameras in the Ceská filharmonie | R. Strauss: Tod und Verklärung / Smrt a vykoupení

Czech Philharmonic and maestro Manfred Honeck performing Richard Strauss's Tod und Verklärung in Rudolfinum, Prague. The footage was recorded on 24 GoPro cameras placed among the musicians on stage of the Dvořák Hall and mounted on instruments, musicians, and the conductor himself.



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Music emitted from Comet 67P sounds an awful lot like 20th-century harpsichord masterpiece

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Symphony musicians audition hidden from judges

The blind audition process also helps the judges focus on what's important. "We really want to concentrate on the music," new maestro Nir Kabaretti says. "The sound and the technique and the intonation and the rhythm."



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National Children's Orchestras of Great Britain dominated by southern applicants

Has the last bassoon been blown in Bradford? The National Children’s Orchestras of Great Britain is struggling to find young instrumentalists in Scotland and the north of England, raising fears that classical music will become the preserve of a white, south-eastern elite.



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Historic Danish orchestra might survive after all

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MozART group from Poland cracks up audiences

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Detroit Symphony expands from concert hall to classroom with launch of educational webcast

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Minnesota Orchestra board makes Kevin Smith president and CEO

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Twisted light sends Mozart record distance through air

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Chariots of Fire composer writes piece of music for Rosetta comet mission

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Musikdozenten ziehen andere Saiten auf

An deutschen Musikhochschulen werden freie Lehrkräfte "unter aller Sau" behandelt. Sagt sogar die Stargeigerin Anne-Sophie Mutter. Nun demonstrieren die Dozenten.



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Kalamazoo Symphony names Daniel Brier new assistant conductor

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Swedish clarinetist Martin Fröst, the SPCO's newest artistic partner.

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Venezuelas El Sistema music scheme is model of tyranny, UK academic says

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Czech conductor to receive Dvořák Prize in New York City

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The Danish Parliament orders that the Danish National Chamber Orchestra survives

DR skal trække fyringen af DR UnderholdningsOrkestret tilbage. Det kræver et flertal i Folketinget bestående af Venstre, DF, Konservative, Enhedslisten og et mandat fra Færøerne.



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Rent Part of the 15th-Century Palazzo Where Mozart Stayed

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ENO's decision to abandon Bristol smacks of the same old London bias

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Robert Lee Watt Defies Racial Barriers in Classical Music

Today, Watt is celebrated as the first African-American French hornist to ever be hired by a major symphony in the United States.



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Roayl Academy of Music - Duncan McTier: statement

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Double bassist admits sexual assaults on his students

Duncan McTier pleads guilty to two indecent assaults and one attempted indecent assault on women aged 17 to 23



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Skiing violinist Vanessa Mae banned over fixed Olympic qualifiers

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Professional dancers paid less than box office assistants at Royal Opera House

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Man Accused in $5M Violin Sentenced to Prison

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Opera singer Rhys Meirion reveals struggle to come to terms with death of his sister

A memorial to Elen was installed at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd to encourage people to talk about organ donation, and next summer Rhys will lead a week long challenge of events.



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Titanic and Avatar composer turns his hand to ballet

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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Reaches Labor Deal With Musicians

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Royal Opera House in dispute with dancers over pay

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Surprise! Classical music flashmob surprises shoppers in Cairo Festival City

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Immigration red tape strikes sour note with Calgary Philharmonic conductor

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vDer Ehemann, ein 54 Jahre alter Musiker, hat die Tötung der vermissten Pianistin gestanden. Es wurde Haftbefehl wegen Mordes beantragt.

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Violin-playing patient, 93, livens up Forth Valley ward

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A violinist for the Ulster Orchestra has appealed to the public to get behind a campaign to save it — and insisted that his own working-class origins show it is not elitist.

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Salvatore Accardo: il licenziamento dei musicisti dell'Opera di Roma? Un tragico errore

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This App Translates The Meaning Of Classical Music

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The culture minister who doesn't listen to Radio 3: Ed Vaizey says he prefers Classic FM's 'lovely music'

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Venezuela's 'Sistema' Brings Classical Music to Maternity Wards

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Live classical 'off-putting' says Jonny Greenwood

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Rita Shane, a Met Soprano Known for Range and Intensity, Dies at 78 - New York Times

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Sunday school: Atlanta’s icy silence is broken by a supercool rap - by Norman Lebrecht

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A kick in the crotchets for Belfast’s Ulster Orchestra

One of the most remarkable acts of people power I witnessed during the Troubles happened at a concert in the Ulster Hall. The Ulster Orchestra was giving a concert, and during the interval a bomb warning was phoned through. Its then Chief Executive, David Byers came on stage and told the audience they would have to leave. The audience refused to go.



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The Art of Wooing Commitment-Phobes

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Spanish practices: Maestro is reappointed over musicians’ opposition

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Ulster Orchestra facing the axe 'within weeks' due to cash crisis

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Save the Orchestra and Choir of Rome Opera House!

On October 2nd 2014 the Board of Directors of the Rome Opera Theatre, headed by the Mayor of Rome, dismissed all the musicians of the Chorus and Orchestra! We are asking Mayor Marino to revoke this decision! The group firing, one of a kind in the history of Italian theatres, places the blame for the effects of several administrations’ disastrous management on 182 musicians.



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What The Evolution Of Violins And Plants Have In Common

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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra struggles during second lockout in two years

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Whiskey-Rigged Organ Offers Sensory Symphony

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Air Canada reverses its policy on the transportation of violas as carry-on baggage

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Named: The great composer who wrote Frère Jacques by Norman Lebrecht

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David Yarbrough, Eleanor Roosevelt High School's orchestra director, will be bringing his lifelong love of music to a new stage, as the first black concertmaster of the Prince George's Philharmonic.

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Vienna Philharmonic to Invest Nilsson Prize Money in Archive

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New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Music Director to Step Down

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The State opera company has dumped a planned performance of Carmen because it features smoking, putting it at odds with a new sponsorship deal with Healthway.

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Jimi Hendrix [Crime Scene] video | Cello Haze by Fernando Nina

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The 8 noisiest things in classical music - Classic FM

The 8 noisiest things in classical musicClassic FMThe charity event of the year, Global's Make Some Noise, is almost upon us, so we take a look at the loudest, biggest, whoppingest noises in classical music, from epic fortes to ridiculously large organs. And cannons. Lots of cannons. Tchaikovsky's ...



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Lawyer turned conductor enjoys spectacular rise in music career

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Online petition against the disbandment of Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Annulliamo la decisione del Consiglio di amministrazione del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma che ha LICENZIATO in data 2 ottobre 2014 tutti gli artisti dell’Orchestra e del Coro!



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Michael Brown protesters interrupt symphony

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San Francisco Opera leader David Gockley to resign in 2016

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Forgotten 'Hamlet' at BCO shows missing link in 19th-century Italian opera

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Czech craftsman copies Brahms' 1868 Streicher piano

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Gatti Named Chief Conductor of Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

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Rome Opera sacks 200 permanent members of orchestra and chorus

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Franz Welser-Möst Extends Cleveland Orchestra Contract

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Mozart portrait miniature of 'virtually unparalleled' importance to be sold

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After months of cogitation Mathieu Dufour, Principal Flute of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has submitted his resignation to join Berlin Phil by Norman Lebrecht

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Peabody Institute to hold symposium on the future of classical music

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The LA Philharmonic Is Out To Redefine The 21st Century Concert Hall

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Move over, Mozart: Child prodigies v real artistry

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Seal spotted at Sydney Opera House

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Violinist has risky surgery, ready to run again

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra feels wind of change as lead clarinettist bows out

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What do conductors actually do?

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Interview with pianist Leon Fleisher

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Jessye Norman: Women singers are judged in ways men are not

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Cincinnati violin maker wins a silver medal for best tone at the Violin Society of America Competition.

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"Topless Cellist" biographer to tell all at Walker Art Center

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The lockout continues in Atlanta, while in London the LPO looks to the future

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‘Stories of Polin’ is a new initiative by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

The online platform gathers stories from all over the world about people’s personal experiences with Jewish culture



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Playing The World's Largest Tuba Requires Two People And Four Lungs

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Classical music gives way to brollies and barricades

Chan Kin-man, one of the organisers, had earlier talked about live classical music performances to create a peaceful atmosphere for the sit-in.



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Rare violin worth £17000 stolen from car Beaconsfield Road Glasgow

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Parents think classical music is 'elitist' and only listen to pop

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Mozart's A major piano sonata K331: the manuscript is discovered!

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Can Brian Cox save classical music?

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The London Philharmonic Orchestra kicked off their new season in a school hall.

That numbing phrase “community music provision” has never been more enticing.



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EA Games exec: US musicians' union is 'pathetic'

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New conductor begins tenure at Boston Symphony

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Alan Davey named new Controller, Radio 3

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Clara Haskil à Corsier

On présente parfois des extraits du film qui fut tourné à l’issue de la réception de Clara Haskil dans l’ordre de la Légion d’Honneur, mais plus rarement le document dans sa version longue.



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Fabio Luisi on maestros, madness and sudden exits by Norman Lebrecht

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Conductor Christopher Hogwood dies aged 73

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Riccardo Muti's resignation: Does Italy have an opera problem?

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Judge refuses injunction in battle of ukulele orchestras

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain wanted to bar United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra from using name pending trademark trial



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World's first plastic trumpet hits stores

The hi-tech, low cost trumpet, made entirely from plastic, has been developed to encourage more children to take up the 'traditional' instrument



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NBSO conductor says he'll commute from Hawaii

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Protesters call on Met to shut down controversial opera

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Stolen miniature violin sought by police

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Riccardo Muti severs ties with the Opera of Rome

Italians dismayed as star conductor pulls out of two productions at company hit by strike threats and protests



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A Pianist Hears Chopin From Inside His Instrument

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Meester-hoornist André Van Driessche overleden

Met droefheid melden wij u dat André Van Driessche ons op 19 september 2014 heeft verlaten. Hij was decennia lang 1ste hoornsolo van het BRT-Filharmonisch Orkest , de voorloper van Brussels Philharmonic.



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Giant robot monster bird to protect Sydney Opera House from seagulls

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Britain's killing talent, warns Dame Kiri

Veteran soprano attacks 'homogenised' televised opera and live cinema screenings, talent shows and UK visa system that locks out stars of tomorrowOne of the world's greatest opera stars has made an impassioned plea for Britain to stop blocking the flow of young singers into opera houses so that the top quality talents of the future can flower.For almost half a century Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has sung for princes, queens and commoners with a warmth and technical precision that has marked her out. And



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Steven Isserlis on the Trench Cello

There was also a note inside the case from the poet Edmund Blunden, explaining that he had enjoyed having tea with this cellist, and recalling the impromptu concerts in the trenches. Even the bow is extraordinary - it has a hollow bit at the frog, through which you blow to get an A!



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Cello,made out of an ammunition box and played in the First World War trenches,is played by cellist Steven Isserlis.

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Lexington Philharmonic management and musicians agree on contract

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The secret lives of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Who are they, the 89 musicians comprising the TSO?



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Mariss Jansons neemt in maart afscheid van Concertgebouworkest

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Tribute to Charlie Chaplin, the Composer

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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's crisis matters for orchestras everywhere

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John Butt: a rightful Gramophone award winner

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Take Five with Hilary Hahn, musician

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Aaron Rosand: ‘A competition is not fair when teachers face their own students’ by Norman Lebrecht

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James Galway and Riccardo Chailly win at Gramophone classical awards

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Frédéric Chopin's heart shows signs of TB, say Polish experts

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A critic crosses the line of malice by Norman Lebrecht

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Super soprano stops the show to tackle thief

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Tibor Rudas, Classical Music Impresario, Dies at 94 - New York Times

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New gift endows music director's position at Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

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In today's Carl Nielsen International Flute Competition in Odense Concert Hall was the Japanese flutist Yukie Ota with the extra help of a butterfly perched on her forehead

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Is it easier to learn to play the violin or guitar ?

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Conductor dismissed from festival after impersonating Hitler in front of German choir

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2nd Conductor Resigns From Vienna State Opera

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Benaroya donates $10M as symphony hears sound of giving

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Classical music crisis: Author says schools today aren't building audiences

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Charlotte Symphony earns first surplus in more than a decade

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QUIZ: Which Opera Are You?

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Electric guitar overtakes violin in music lesson boom -

The electric guitar has overtaken the violin in a list of most popular musical instruments for children to play, says a music exam board. Some 13% of five- to 17-year-olds play the electric guitar, compared with 12% for the violin.



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The Met Opera's new musical celebration 'promoting bigotry' By Andrea Peyser

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Exclusive: UK Exam reforms give 'dead white Germans' lead on the classical music ...

Students will now focus on German composers such as Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann



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Sir Neville Marriner, conductor: I'll just die on the podium, with any luck

Sir Neville Marriner, who turned 90 earlier this year, is worried that not enough children are learning classical instruments because today’s parents are too “easy-going”.



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Electoral reform row could hit a sour note for Hong Kong Philharmonic

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Gun-toting Colorado woman threatens boy over clarinet practice

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Woman Allegedly Points Rifle At Boy Playing Clarinet Outside - Huffington Post

Woman Allegedly Points Rifle At Boy Playing Clarinet OutsideHuffington PostCLIFTON, Colo. (AP) -- A western Colorado woman is accused of pointing a rifle at several children in a neighboring backyard because she was upset that an 11-year-old boy was playing his clarinet outside. Mesa County sheriff's deputies believe 60-year ...



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A group of leading Scottish musicians fear a Yes vote "As Scottish musicians we fear a weakening of ties with BBC

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Alongside regular fixtures such as Land of Hope and Glory, this weekend's Last Night of the BBC Proms will feature a first - a massed audience singalong to the classic Disney score for Mary Poppins.

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Rule Britannia: Will it still be sung at the Proms in the event of a Yes Vote? Why is it sung at all?

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Why only one Brit among BBC’s New Generation artists? by Norman Lebrecht

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Scots Grammy award-winning organist in court charged with sex offences

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London's Royal Opera targets youngest-ever audience

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Conductor 'In Shock' Over Plans to Shutter Danish Orchestra

On Monday, the national broadcasting network of Denmark, DR, announced 161 million kronor ($28 million) in budget cuts and, as a result, the country's only professional chamber orchestra will cease to exist as of Jan. 1, 2015.



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A tale of two resignations: conductors Franz Welser-Möst and Han-Na Chang - The Guardian (blog)

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Artistic differences have forced another breakup of the Australian String Quartet

ASQ chairman Paul Clithero said “despite the board’s best efforts to maintain the current line-up” there were irreconcilable artistic differences between the players.



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Former violinist with tremor regains ability to play while undergoing brain ... - Jerusalem Post

To find the exact region, Elishuv’s cooperation was needed to stop the tremor. As she played the violin – at first with very shaky notes and finally with a normal sound, the surgeons located the affected area. The electrode was inserted through a small hole made in her skull.



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Royal Concertgebouw faces financial catastrophe

Even in spite of the orchestra’s highly acclaimed world tour last year, Concertgebouw reported an eye watering deficit of €863,461 in their 2013 financial summary.



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Musicians Union Ratifies Met Opera Contract - New York Times

Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, which represents the players in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, announced on Tuesday that its members had ratified the labor agreement that the union negotiated with the Metropolitan Opera last month.



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Italian diva and soprano Magda Olivero dies at 104

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Kulturrat gegen kostenlose Opern im Netz - Geschäftsführer Olaf Zimmermann lehnt Vorschlag aus Berlin strikt ab

Placido Domingo and Anna Netrebko Free and live on the internet? A proposal divides the cultural policy.



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Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra: Congo's musical lifeline

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Silence after the symphony

Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra’s maverick Music Director Han-Na Chang stunned the fraternity by resigning yesterday, right in the middle of a European tour.



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Carolina Panthers kicker Graham Gano apologizes to trombonist for shove

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DR sløjfer 200 stillinger og nedlægger orkester

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Conductor wins Czech classical music prize

Czech conductor Jiří Bělohlávek has won the Antonín Dvořák Prize for promoting Czech classical music and the works of Dvořák,



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Amid young people's lack of interest, PPO pushes for classical music

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La Ville de Paris ne paiera pas le surcoût des travaux de la Philharmonie

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The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Locks Out Its Players, Again

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Police Recover Stolen 'Russian Stradivari' Violin

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La Scala's catcalling loggionisti continue their restiveness

Roberto Alagna pulls out of Jules Massenet's Werther, blaming the opera house's vociferous upper gallery



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Prom 64: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Rattle review

There are players this good in the UK orchestras; why don't their wind sections sound like this?



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Domingo Extends Contract as General Director of Los Angeles Opera - New York Times (blog)

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BBCs Proms coverage becomes a question of composure - letters page

A spokeswoman for the mighty BBC tells Charlotte Higgins (Composers condemn ‘patronising’ BBC, 3 September) that the BBC Proms’ producers “have to bear in mind the audience” when choosing which Prom concerts to televise; and that “newer works are often less familiar”. Is someone paid good wages to write that sort of guff?



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4 new musicians join Seattle Symphony

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Staatsoper: Generalmusikdirektor Welser-Möst tritt zurück

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Tuition and hobbies helping richer children

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Historic moment for the Gulf as Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra performs at BBC Proms

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Gramophone Awards 2014 winners announced

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‘Toppositie Concertgebouworkest in gevaar om geldgebrek’

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Susanna Mälkki appointed Chief Conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra eyeing Jeff Alexander as its new president

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Two Met Opera Unions Ratify Contracts - New York Times (blog)

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So You Want to Be An Opera Singer?

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BBC accused of editing out new music from Proms on television

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Rhuna Martin obituary by Steven Isserlis

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It is with deep regret and great sadness that the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra learnt of the tragic death of John Lynch, Associate Principal Viola in the RTÉ NSO, and his partner, Kevin Devine.

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A rapper's response to a teacher's request for an inspirational and fast rap for her students has resulted in an incredible viral video based on Mozart's 'Rondo Alla Turca'.

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Kate Bush and the viola player

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Opera lover ‘beat up taxi driver with his walking stick because he thought he’d miss a performance of Puccini’

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Ottawa Opera Company Fires Singer For Homophobic Facebook Remarks

Ruminski is now concerned the firing will put future employed with other companies in jeopardy...



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How orchestras are riding the wave of change

With orchestras striving to find new and innovative ways to connect with both existing and new audiences, we're seeing a wide variety of programming, concert formats and new series that step away from the traditional orchestra format of overture ...



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James Conlon to quit post with Chicago Symphony's Ravinia Festival

Ravinia Festival officials announced Monday that Conlon has extended his contract for one more year and will lead its resident orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, for six more performances next July and August.



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Watch gorgeous elephants dance to soothing violin

Violinist Eleanor Bartsch was warming up for a performance and ran through her repertoire at the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin before the show. And the Bach Double made these stunning elephants' day.



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Why is opera so expensive?

First of all, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and Opera North charge pretty much in line with comparable Premier League and other prestige sporting events – and please note that without an Arts Council subsidy, every single ticket would cost about £70 more...



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Two arrested in death of Chautauqua violinist

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Daniel Barenboim: My orchestra is a political laboratory

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Met Opera and its unions singing in harmony

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The Australian Chamber Orchestra celebrates 40 years as the nation's flagship

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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra makes 'great strides' financially, audit shows

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One-of-a-kind oboe belonging to BSO musician stolen

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Musical Greatness Goes Unrecorded

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Synaesthesia festival brings classical music to light at Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art

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Addicts Symphony: drink and drugs 'widespread in classical world', says cellist

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Top conductor's 'symphony orchestras will be gone in 30 years' claim stirs debate

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Licia Albanese obituary

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Frans Brüggen obituary

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Trumpeter Calms Passengers on Wave-Stricken Ferry

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New Deadline for Met Opera Negotiations: Sunday

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Australian violinist recruited to work as Soviet spy

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Concert violinist diagnosed with a tremor plays during career-saving brain surgery

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Puccini's Italian tragic love affair house up for sale

Property south of Lake Como where composer famously escaped with married lover in 1886 has price tag of €400,000



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Sir Neville Marriner, 90, becomes oldest Proms conductor

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Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer, dies aged 85

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Good Financial News for the Louisville Orchestra

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World-renowned conductor Frank Shipway, 79, killed in Wiltshire car crash

Frank Shipway, 79, was trained by the esteemed John Barbirolli and performed all over the world with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Italy's National Symphony Orchestra.



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Much ado about nothing: Tim Smith's erroneous concerns about modern ignorance

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Listen to the World's First 3D-Printed Saxophone - Popular Mechanics (blog)

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The great classical music swindle - and why we're better off now

Does today’s world of instant access to an entire world of musical possibility suit classical musical culture better than pop?



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Why do some performers thrive on adrenaline whilst others crumple?

Scientists from the University of Birmingham dotted the left arms of performing cellists with tiny reflective discs, so that motioncapture cameras could monitor the angles of their left elbows as they played. Special ear-clips simultaneously measured their heart rate, so indicating their adrenaline level. Co-author Adrian Bradbury adds: "We would also be interested to see if these behavioural findings are replicated in other disciplines, for example sport...



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Classical musos risk deafness

Professional musicians are up to four times more likely to suffer deafness than the general public, according to research published in the online edition of Occupational & Environmental Medicine



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Soldier turned his violin into fascinating WWI diary

During his service Ernest used the violin to entertain his fellow front line soldiers with renditions of popular wartime tunes such as Roses of Picardy and Keep the Home Fires Burning.



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Violinist laid off by RTE is awarded €13500 - Irish Independent

RTE laying off the violinist coincided with the broadcaster making drastic cuts at its RTE Concert and National Symphony Orchestras.



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Seiji Ozawa beats cancer, plans opera

Japan's Seiji Ozawa, one of the best-known conductors of his generation, said yesterday he had recovered from health problems including cancer and that his plans for the future included conducting an opera next year.



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Classical musicians take to yoga and Pilates to resist injury - Sydney Morning Herald

"It’s only been in the past decade or so that orchestras have realised the musicians need tailored music medicine support to help ward off and repair injuries that could affect their whole livelihood."



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Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera scrap fall season because of financial problems

For the first time in its 17-year history, the Sacramento Philharmonic will not present any concerts during the fall season, and it remains unclear whether its musicians will return to the stage in the spring of 2015.



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Kansas farmer rounds up cattle by playing his trombone

The Peabody resident said he has been playing the instrument since the fifth grade but only started performing for the cattle a few weeks ago.



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Olaf Diegel reveals first prototype of 3D-printed alto saxophone

The Professor of product development at Lund University, Sweden was given the task of creating a 3D-printed working saxophone. The first ODD prototype was revealed last week in a short demonstration video...



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18-year-old boy loaned a £1m Stradivarius by musician who was touched by the similarities in their lives.

At the age of 14 Roberto Ruisi, became the youngest ever leader of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Also from Edgbaston in Birmingham, John Ludlow became the first leader of the National Youth Orchestra in 1948.



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Mahler ruckus after festival hits bum note

Serious allegations of misconduct and even fraud have surfaced this week in Vienna relating to the organisers of the little-known Mahler Philharmonic Society. Several disgruntled singers who were accepted into their 2014 Salzburg Voice Festival (no connection to the official Salzburg Festival) have outlined a litany of complaints against them.



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New York Metropolitan Opera Postpones Lockout by 72 Hours

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Conductor Harding says he paid a price for being "obnoxious" youth

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Oxford's all-male a cappella group "Out of the Blue" take on Shakira for Charity

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The man who plays French horn with his toes

The 23-year-old German recently became an ambassador for the One-Handed Musical Instrument Trust (OHMI), which helps fund the development of adapted or specially designed instruments for musicians with one hand and other limb differences.



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Polyphony Conservatory: uniting Arab and Jewish musicians in Nazareth

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Why Criminals Are Afraid of Classical Music

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Carlo Bergonzi, celebrated Italian tenor and interpreter of Verdi, dies at 90

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Wagner diva asks singers to reduce their Met fees

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Former teacher at Chetham’s School of Music charged with rape

Malcolm Layfield, 62, a violinist and music professor, previously taught at Chetham’s School of Music in the 1980s and 1990s. He then moved to the Royal Northern College of Music



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Google Glass to be used for one-off staging of Puccini's Turandot

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Italian Opera Company Experiments With Google Glass

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Discovery Ensemble suddenly ceases operations

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Oboist Tania Frazer suing Queensland Symphony Orchestra for unfair treatment .

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Bayreuth's botched start, supercharged conductor

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Orchestra Faults Met Chief's Record as a Lockout Looms

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Two renowned German orchestras meet their end?

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Why Garsington Manor was Britain's most scandalous wartime retreat

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Julian Lloyd Webber: classical music competitions are rife with corruption

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Both Israelis and Palestinians are losers in this conflict by Daniel Barenboim

There can be no military solution. Both sides need to acknowledge the other’s suffering and their rights



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Rocker Bon Jovi to accept award named for opera singer

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Man gets 3 ½ years prison for violin theft

A Milwaukee man whose stun gun was used in the theft of a $5 million Stradivarius violin in January has been sentenced to 3½ years in prison.



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John Malkovich rubbishes Sydney Opera House's 'hideous' acoustics - The Guardian (blog)

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Outstanding three-year-old drummer leads entire orchestra

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Oregon Symphony Conductor Norman Leyden Dies At 96

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Retired CSO violist William Schoen dead at 94

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Addict musicians to join LSO for TV symphony performance

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Universal boss slams ‘unwelcoming, elitist’ classical music concerts

Max Hole singles out Royal Festival Hall for criticism in attack on live classical music



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David Pountney awarded Austrian Cross of Honour

Welsh National Opera Artistic Director and Chief Executive David Pountney will be awarded with the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art First Class at this year’s Bregenz Festival.



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Rod Franks, distinguished LSO trumpet player, has been killed in a car crash.

Franks was returning home from watching golf’s Open Championship at Hoylake in Liverpool when the car in which he was a passenger was involved in a multi-vehicle pile-up on the motorway in Nottinghamshire.



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Start of Proms marks end of Roger Wright's tenure as director

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LEGO Architecture Students Will Design Acoustic Shell for Outdoor Chamber Music Concerts

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Is a $1.5 million violin pool the newest thing in luxury?

A $1.5 million custom swimming pool has turned the backyard of New York mansion into a musical masterpiece.



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