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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How good an investment is a violin?

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Composers express anger at funding cut for music festival

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Mozart's Idomeneo: Martin Kusej is greeted by 'a Mexican wave of booing'

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Stern in his father's footsteps

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Will this Royal Opera House redevelopment be an improvement?

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New (Chinese) kids on the orchestra-tour block

Beijing's China National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra is positioned as the voice of that nation's younger generation.



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Fabiola Gianotti to lead Cern particle physics research centre

Gianotti, an accomplished pianist who once considered a career in music, said she was honoured to be named to head the sprawling institute



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Cleveland Orchestra Director to Retire Next Year

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Here's a Bach Fugue Played on Beer Bottles

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