Musicians in New Year's Honours list

The list includes Radu Lupu, Steuart Bedford, Malcolm Martineau,, Catherine Arlidge, Alina Ibragimova....

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Daniel Smith, World's Most Recorded Bassoon Soloist, Dies at 77

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Death of international opera designer, 87

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Spotify Slapped With $150 Million Copyright Suit

At the crux of the suit is Lowery’s claim that Spotify has created a “$17 to $25 million reserve” to pay royalties to artists whose work it has streamed without licensing, but it hasn’t bothered to find those artists to make payment.

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Surfer plays the violin while riding Nazaré

Portuguese surfer Nuno Santos has ridden the big waves of Nazaré, in Portugal, while playing the violin. 0m.46s into video...

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Orchestra scandal - Korea Times

Chung's wife (it is alleged) is suspected of having conspired with some orchestra employees to make up allegations that orchestra CEO Park Hyun-jung harassed them in order to drive out Park, who had been on clash course with her husband and was trying to get in the way of Chung's new contract.

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This kid has absolutely insane perfect pitch skills

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A-level music marking 'lottery' stops young composers getting top grades

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Female conductors and composers breaking down barriers

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Surprise bequest to DC music group

They were a frugal couple, preferring the lower-priced, obstructed-view seats in the Bach Consort's home performance space......Cy enjoyed it so much that when he died April 1 at 88 — three years after Pearl’s death — his will included a bequest of $157,000 to the Washington Bach Consort.

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Victoria Beckham has night out with daughter Harper at the Royal Opera House

Harper looks captivated as she sits on her mother's lap before curtain up, with Victoria captioning the cute photo:'Our little ballerina loves the Nutcracker at the Royal Opera House X #christmasattheballet.'

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Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra musicians unite for concert to aid Syrian refugees

Principal cellist Tony Ross and his wife, Beth Rapier, who also plays cello with the orchestra, spearheaded the project to aid relief efforts for the estimated 6 million refugees within Syria who have been displaced by civil war...

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Ben Carson talks about his love for classical music

Dr. Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon, is a candidate for the Republican nomination for president: Yes, I started with clarinet and went to trumpet and then I wound up with baritone and euphonium. I was actually pretty good. I won a scholarship to Interlochen (a well-known arts institute in Michigan). But my band director said, “Ben, I know you’re going to be a great doctor some day and I don’t want you to get distracted.”

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Musiker werden angefeindet und angespuckt

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This conductor just started plain yelling in the middle of Scheherazade

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Anger as Dallas Symphony Orchestra postpones UK tour over terrorism fears

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Opera Singers' Flashmob Of Carols At German Airport Stuns Travelers

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Music needs a home, not a vanity project | Letters

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Miniature orchestra printed in 3D

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Beethoven manuscript auctioned after being discovered in a Connecticut home

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Hartford Symphony Stalemate and Shutdown Threat Awfully Redundant - The Nonprofit Quarterly (blog)

The Nonprofit Quarterly (blog)Hartford Symphony Stalemate and Shutdown Threat Awfully RedundantThe Nonprofit Quarterly (blog)In these days of at your convenience digital communication, you'd think nonprofits wouldn't just repeat each other's publicly failed strategies but learn from them instead. Why, then, are we looking at the Hartford Symphony Orchestra threatening its ...Both Sides Must Bend In Symphony StandoffHartford CourantWellesley Symphony Orchestra to host family program at Natick lib

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Palestinian refugee pianist given Beethoven Prize

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Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic

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Hartford Symphony Could Shut Down Without Union Concessions

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Why a Good Violin Is Worth Investing In

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LA Philharmonic's notable lead clarinetist scales down her career after 54 years

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Watch the cast of Star Wars sing an a cappella version of the Star Wars theme

Posted by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, 15 December 2015

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Seven surprising things you never knew about Beethoven

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Arts: Symphonies preserve our cultural heritage

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Musician plays Saxophone while surgeons carry out brain op

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How well do you know Beethoven's most-famous melodies? Google Doodle challenge

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A 24-year-old learned to play the violin in 2 years

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A-level music to include female composers after student's campaign

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José Maria Blumenschein appointed Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster

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Museum of London site recommended for proposed £278m concert hall

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L'Orchestre symphonique de Québec en lock-out

Les musiciens de l’Orchestre symphonique de Québec (OSQ) sont «sous le choc» et peinent à comprendre. Pour la première fois dans l’histoire de la musique symphonique au Canada, les 66 musiciens de l’OSQ ont été mis en lock-out, lundi.

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Opera singer Montserrat Caballe sentenced for tax fraud - BBC News

Caballe has been given a six-month suspended prison sentenced for tax fraud. Prosecutors said Caballe failed to pay the Spanish treasury 508,468 euros (£368,409) in tax on her earnings. The 82-year-old singer admitted in 2010 that she lived in Spain but was registered as a resident of Andorra for tax purposes.

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The Women Conductors Speak

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Attempted tuba selfie ends horrifically

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Renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman wins 2016 Genesis prize

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Music is a lifesaver. Every child should have a chance to play

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Opera director calls Riccardo Chailly an ‘a**hole’ backstage (and it was recorded)

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Stefan Arzberger resigns as Leipzig Quartet violinist following arrest

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Thieves steal musician's £50000 flute in London wine bar

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Music makers: Swiss music boxes endure in electronic age

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A London opera critic responds to Times anti-ENO rant -

by Tom Sutcliffe, special to Slipped Disc

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Nearly 300 tubas converge on downtown Portland for 25th Tuba Christmas concert - OregonLive.com

Beads of rain glistened off of silver and brass, as the musicians – ages 8 to 79 – played through 90 minutes of bass-heavy Christmas carols, from "Silent Night" to "Joy to the World."

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Cleveland Orchestra ratifies new three-year labor agreement with musicians

Both Sherwin and Menger declined to discuss specific financial terms of the new contract. However, both parties confirmed that the deal calls for annual increases in weekly compensation and retirement benefits, along with improvements in working conditions when touring. Base pay, according to the most recent figures available to the public, is approximately $120,000.

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Where Are the Maestras? Mellon Targets the Glass Ceiling Facing Female Conductors - Inside Philanthropy

The discrepancy becomes more striking at 103 "high-budget" U.S. orchestras, where 91 percent of conductors were male across the 2012-2013 season.

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Minnesota Orchestra hires principal oboe

Joseph Peters, former principal oboe of the Buffalo Philharmonic, has been named principal oboe here, the Minnesota Orchestra and music director Osmo Vänskä announced Thursday

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Mattiwilda Dobbs, opera singer - obituary

Mattiwilda Dobbs, who has died aged 90, was one of the first black singers to appear at Glyndebourne and the first to appear at La Scala, Milan, where she made her operatic debut as Elvira in Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers...

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World's largest orchestra record attempt

HK Audio will make musical history on 9 July 2016 by sponsoring and providing the PA system for a world record attempt featuring 10,000 performing musicians and 30,000 fans at Frankfurt's Commerzbank Arena.The previous record for the world’s largest orchestra was set in Brisbane in 2013, when 7,224 musicians gathered to play a medley of songs including Waltzing Matilda, Ode to Joy and Queen’s We Will Rock You in Suncorp Stadium.

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Violinist Christel Lee Wins 11th International Jean Sibelius Competition

US violinist Christel Lee, reacts after the announcement of the results during the final day in Helsinki, Finland, on December 3, 2015.

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My son was grounded by Ryanair when it said ‘no’ to his violin case … and to his euros

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Opera season's opening night at La Scala ends in disharmony

Between the Belgian director, Moshe Leiser, and the Italian opera conductor, Riccardo Chailly. “I’m here, congratulations maestro, really congratulations,” Leiser can be heard saying in English. After a pause, he then screams “asshole”. To add an Italian insult to injury, he is then heard muttering the words “stronzo di merda” (piece of shit).

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Opera stars warn that cuts ‘threaten to destroy’ the English National Opera

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Michael Caine drawn to tale of retired conductor invited to play for the queen

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Descendent of "Silent Night" composer finds no humor in guns billboard using carol

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Heinz Fricke, East German conductor who transformed WNO orchestra, dies at 88

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Classical music: The Arts Council allows a crisis to go to waste

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Cleveland Orchestra reports surplus, endowment growth, and larger audiences in 2015

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My Health Experience: The broken bones that put a musical career on hold

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Music chief's $500k challenge for Singapore Symphony Orchestra

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If You Use Music to Fall Asleep, Are You Disrespecting It?

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What Is The Future Of Opera In Canada?

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Italy's Matteo Renzi defies security fears for a night at the opera in Milan

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: Does the art excuse the politics?

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Another precious instrument has been trashed on an international flight

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The Calais Sessions : A track made in The Jungle

A group of London musicians took an extraordinary journey to The Jungle refugee camp in Calais, France in the hope of finding musicians to jam with, write, rehearse, perform and record, over two days.

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This one song teaches you basically everything you need to know about music theory

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Here are the 45 ways a musician can make money

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Want to get in to Oxford? First, go to the opera…

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Just in: Great conductor announces retirement

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Taylor Swift hits right notes with $50000 donation to orchestra

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Vienna Philharmonic appoints two women

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Albuquerque woman asks for help finding stolen viola

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Pinchgut and co: the pocket-sized companies keeping opera interesting

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Online visit to the Berlin Philharmonic

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I am a graduate from the Royal College of Music and am currently a PhD/MPhil candidate at the University of Central Lancashire. I am researching musicians' experiences of performance-related challenge

Please read on to participate in a short anonymous online survey to collect responses from adult musicians who are playing or aspiring to play at a professional level. The research has received ethical approval from the UClan Research Ethics Committee for Business, Arts, Humanities, and Social Science (BAHSS).

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Intendant vor Gericht Kündigung von Dorny ist nicht rechtens

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Intendant vor Gericht Kündigung von Dorny ist nicht rechtens

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Atlanta Symphony members robbed at gunpoint leaving rehearsal

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San Francisco: Police looking for stolen violin

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Stolen trumpets put musician out of tune

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Google will show live orchestra, opera, and theater performances in 360 degrees

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1969 interview with Jacqueline du Pre and Daniel Barenboim

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Taiwanese wins top prize in German flute competition

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'Too few' female orchestra conductors

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Xian Zhang makes conducting history as first woman to have titled role at a BBC orchestra

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Happy St Andrew's Day - 10 reasons Scotland is one of the most majestic music-making nations in the world

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Beethoven: An unlikely hero in China

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One of the world’s greatest orchestras is funding a home for asylum seekers

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20 notes a second?! This guy reckons he's the world's fastest pianist

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‘Don't study music – study languages instead’ says conductor Stephen Layton

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Iran orchestra barred over women musicians

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Jimi Hendrix forms double act with Handel at London museum

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Noor-e-Omid is a newly formed SATB choir, the first of its kind in Afghanistan.

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Trifonov Joins Philharmonic Board

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2015 International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition announces semi-finalists.

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Spending Review: Arts Council protected despite DCMS cuts

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Opera Lyra owed the National Arts Centre almost $1M

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra perform with old gas and electricity meters

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Opera for the easily bored

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Mumsnet Talk - the cost of music lessons

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Beethoven disrupts anti-migrant rally

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Dallas Opera gets $500000 grant for its Hart Institute for Women Conductors

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A vision of home that has few ideas for classical music. Only one living Irish composer is part of the Ireland's NCH’s seven-concert series for the 1916 centenary

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Opera company's collapse leaves more than $1M debt

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Inside a symphony audition

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San Diego Assistant Conductor Finalist for Fresno Philharmonic Music Director

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Women conductors have made inroads, but the fight isn't over

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Danish Composer Wins $100000 Prize

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra musician's viola stolen from parked car

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Cellist Gabriel Cabezas wins Sphinx Medal of Excellence and $50000 artist grant

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Petition : Alitalia cambia musica!

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From the classical archive: 1938 Sir Henry Wood interview: 'Painting is my real love'

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What to do when you get an attack of the hiccoughs just before you have to perform the national anthem to an audience of thousands at a baseball game?

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Violinist Joseph Silverstein dies at 83

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Facing the music: Esa-Pekka Salonen

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The composer Jouni Kaipainen has died

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Why an opera singer's penis is worth more than a dancer's

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This autographed Bernstein score was found in a second-hand shop – and it held one more surprise

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Philadelphia Orchestra not out of the woods yet.

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The honk that's worth $40,000

Now, if only one could say the same of these F-35 fighter jets.

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At CSO, a woman's place is at the top

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Reward Offered For Stolen Car With Antique Cello In Trunk

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In 'Star Wars,' classical music shows rare giant impact

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Seymour Lipkin, Pianist and Conductor, Dies at 88

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Orlando Philharmonic executive director to resign

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Violin maker Josef Kantuscher has died aged 91

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LEEDS school children will get the chance to work with professional singers to devise their own opera thanks to the arts fund set up to remember murdered teacher Ann Maguire.

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Late Brahms is wonderfully crafted - which is why it's so dull

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World's Largest Music Box Plays the Harry Potter Theme (Also Tchaikovsky and Liszt)

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Musician claims official neglect

“A lot of folks said the Tchaikovsky competition is the classical music equivalent of the Olympics, but after having won it and returning home, the government did not recognize my efforts in any substantial way,” Tseng said, calling on the government to treat classical musicians and artists who win internationally renowned competitions in the same way it rewards athletes.

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Why opera is better with popcorn

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Scots conductor wins German orchestra

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The New York Philharmonic pays up on its World Series bet with the Kansas City Symphony

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Jerzy Katlewicz, the prominent Polish conductor, has died in Kraków at the age of 88.

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Fresno Philharmonic announces finalists for new music director

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Britain's ten-year-old prodigy composing operas

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Carnegie Hall Stands Behind Clive Gillinson After Review of Ronald Perelman’s Complaints

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Sebastian F Schwarz announced as Glyndebourne's new general director

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Former Cincinnati conductor Xian Zhang tapped to head New Jersey Symphony

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Berlin Philharmonic's Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching

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Meet The Composer: the podcast that's demystifying classical music

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Harbin Opera House in China by MAD Architects

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Sound and Music survey highlights problems faced by composers

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English National Opera given more time to resolve management issues

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Athens conductor and wife remembered as music icons

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Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92

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Do concerto performances need a conductor?

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Violins, violas and cellos worth more than $150000 stolen in Kew, Melbourne

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Opera singer performs on train after wild boar collision causes eight-hour Eurostar delay

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Musique : Qobuz en redressement judiciaire

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Andris Nelsons wird später Kapellmeister vom Gewandhausorchester

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Was Bach really a 'tasteless and chaotic composer'?

Plus: why are so many podcasts American? Is it because of the stranglehold that Radio 4 has on the British market?

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Richard Horowitz, Renowned Timpanist and Craftsman of Conductors’ Batons, Dies at 91

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British opera 'in crisis' says renowned director Graham Vick

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Syrian orchestra in exile: Changing the image of refugees - Deutsche Welle

"I can hardly believe that we are reunited after so many years," says Michella. Playing with her former classmates in Bremen almost feels like a miracle for the 28-year-old musician. "It feels like we're back in Damascus when we rehearse. It's very emotional."

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Death announced of Bass Trombonist Adrian Morris

Universally admired as a performer, musician and friend, he was the former bass trombonist of the Ulster Orchestra where he played for 11 years, before moving on to take on the role with immense distinction at the Hallé Orchestra. A Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music, he died, aged 50, on Monday evening.

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A violin competition is corrupted

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Musiker aus Syrien gründen Exil-Orchester in Bremen

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What A Dead Russian Composer Teaches Us About the Opinion of Others

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Brian Sewell, art critic, dies aged 84

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Forget the mad genius composer myth: music is good for the mind

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Syria refugee crisis: Yarmouk pianist's perilous journey to Greece

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Sir Clive wins the battle of Carnegie Hall. But not the war.

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Sir David Willcocks obituary

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Conductor and organist Sir David Willcocks has died

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Mozart gets Johnny Rotten makeover

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The philosopher who foresaw the crisis of the music industry

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Classical concerts: a no-rules approach

I got all excited when I saw Gillian Moore’s Sinfini piece, Classical etiquette: the new rules. Finally! I thought. Someone arguing that people shouldn’t be keelhauled for sneezing in a quiet bit! Sadly, Moore’s new rules are basically the old ones, with a bit of ‘Calm down, everybody!’ attached.

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Nouvelles brèves Une plaque sur la maison d’Henri Dutilleux

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Ivan Fischer organises an aid convoy and speaks out against his government’s treatment of the refugee crisis at its borders

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Musician wins major audition. Then airline smashes his instrument.

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The reason why there are no female composers on the syllabus is because they're no good.

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How I discovered the guilty secret of my Titanic violinist grandfather Jock Hume

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Classic Italian Opera Houses Sacrificed Sound For Social Status

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Using harmonics as a violin teaching and practice tool

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Man caught on camera stealing £300000 viola after it was left on a train

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Music from Anne Boleyn's songbook performed for first time in 500 years

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CSO rehearses twice with Muti; no contract yet

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Der diesjährige Gewinner des Schweizer Grand Prix Musik 2015 ist der Oboist, Dirigent und Komponist Heinz Holliger.

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As CSO begins season, conductor Andrew Litton starts a slow departure

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Adriano in Siria – why Pergolesi's overlooked masterpiece deserves a UK premiere at last

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Milwaukee Symphony names Yaniv Dinur its new assistant conductor

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String quartet entertains motorists in M5 jam

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra says no deal with musicians in sight yet

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NZ cathedral bans performance of Karl Jenkins' Mass for Peace over Muslim call to prayer

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Cleveland Orchestra general manager Jennifer Barlament leaving to head Atlanta

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Rubik's cube juggler can also play the sax

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Chineke! The debut of Europe’s first black and minority ethnic professional symphony orchestra featured exhilaratingly vital Beethoven as well as sensitive and touching playing

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Violinist Bendix-Balgley officially leaves PSO

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Leeds Piano Comp final – first prize for Anna Tcybuleva, not the obvious choice

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Para-orchestra enabling musical talent

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'Refugees Welcome' banner steals show at Last Night of the Proms

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Family of late composer claims accountant stole $4.5M

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Queer pitch: is there such a thing?

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What's it like to be the Beyoncé of classical music?

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Bruce Lawrence, first black member of Seattle Symphony, dies

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Teenage musician wins battle to put female composers on 'sexist' A-level syllabus

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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra names new executive director

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Not just a cute girl on a podium: how to get more women conducting

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Blind opera singer tells of her experience with bullying

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Nelsons at Leipzig – an inspired appointment or an orchestra too far?

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Exam board forced to include female composers on A-level music syllabus by teenager's campaign

Twyford student Jessy McCabe launched a petition last month after discovering there were no women amongst the 63 composers featured on the Edexcel program...

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Andris Nelsons Named Music Director of Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra - New York Times

The two orchestras share a history: Symphony Hall in Boston was modeled in part on one of the Gewandhaus Orchestra's previous concert halls, and many Boston conductors were trained in Leipzig or spent important time there.

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It'll be alright on the night: how musicians cope with performance stress

Soloists at the Proms perform in front of a live audience of 6,000 people, and thousands more on radio, TV and online. How do musicians deal with nerves when playing to large audiences in public?

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LA Philharmonic Turns to Virtual Reality to Take Beethoven Everywhere

“A big part of this project is finding new audiences with this platform,” said Amy Seidenwurm, the L.A. Phil’s director of digital initiatives during a recent interview.

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More Change at New York Philharmonic as Marketing Chief Leaves

The departure of Mr. Snead is the latest sign of major changes at the Philharmonic, which is searching for a music director to succeed Alan Gilbert, who plans to leave in 2017...

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Opera singer Danielle de Niese: My talent protected me from racism

"I'm aware of racism now but I've never felt that it is something that has ever limited me. I think music, like sport, sees things more democratically. Talent is talent,"

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Wagner's Wedding March manuscript goes on sale

For $3.6m (£2.3m) this piece of musical history could be yours.

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Denmark’s Esbjerg Ensemble appeals for support against funding withdrawal

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BPO's new concertmaster comes from Toronto, via Finland

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The latest from the maestros' merry-go-round

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Mozart's sister 'composed works used by younger brother'

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Marin Alsop: ‘We need to get beyond stereotypes and just accept each other’

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Chailly to step down early as Leipzig Gewandhaus conductor

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Esbjerg Ensemble er lukningstruet

Esbjerg Ensemble is threatened with closure

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George Cleve dies at 79

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Opera's Blurred Lines

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'Final abuse of power': ex-Chetham's pupils vent anger at Chris Ling 'suicide'

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist engineers triumphant comeback

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Trouble Sleeping? A Composer Wants To Help

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Orchestral conductors would be much better if they tried performing

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Natalia Strelchenko murder accused appears in court

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Composer Max Richter's project designed to lull listeners to 'Sleep'

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Chetham's ex-teacher Chris Ling 'shot himself' in US

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Why does music give us chills? You asked Google – here’s the answer

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The oldest orchestra in the world? That's a fuzzy notion

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Cleveland Orchestra appoints Atlanta Symphony principal Thomas Sherwood

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How does playing the french horn help you lead a company?

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Igor Levit: the leaner, meaner piano machine

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Are You Related to This Violinist? If So, You Could Be a Millionaire

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Ivan Moravec obituary

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Italian conductor Gianluca Marciano appears on Azerbaijan “black list” for visiting Artsakh

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Contract negotiations underway between Grand Rapids Symphony and musicians

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Dead woman named as concert pianist Natalia Strelchenko

The 38-year-old mother died on Sunday shortly after police found her at a house on Culcheth Lane following reports of an assault.

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Two Aspen music school students killed in car crash

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A saga of lost violins, from Barcelona to (finally) St. Louis

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George Cleve, San Jose Symphony conductor, dead at 79

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Barenboim to take Berlin orchestra to Iran despite protests from Israel

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People are confusing computer-generated music with the works of J.S. Bach

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Scotland’s national orchestra launches RSNO Composers’ Hub

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BMW unterstützt das West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

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Dima Slobodeniouk appointed Principal Conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra

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Does the Minnesota Orchestra have sustainable labor contracts?

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How Asian Youth Orchestra changed a Vietnamese refugee's life - South China Morning Post

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Taking the Starch Out of Orchestra Attire

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Don't believe your ears: the best classical music hoaxes

From the devious aristocrat to the invention of an entire genre, we pick some of classical music’s best hoaxes and hoaxersIt’s not just literature and visual art....

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Grammy-winning trumpeter resigns school post amid donations probe

WWL-TV reported in May that Mayfield and his business partner, Ronald Markham, had changed the rules of the city's public library support foundation to steer at least $863,000 to their New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.

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Are Classical Music Competitions Good for the Kids Who Play in Them? - Wall Street Journal

Competitions for teenage musicians keep growing in popularity, but do they hurt or help the young artists who participate in them?

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Opera performer sings through his own brain surgery

A Slovenian opera singer shared video of himself singing Schubert while undergoing brain surgery in the Netherlands. Ambroz Bajec-Lapajne posted a video to YouTube showing him performing the first and last couplets of Schubert's "Gute Nacht ...

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'Take that, Mozart': BBC Ibiza Prom is most downloaded - Telegraph.co.uk

The special dance music-themed concert, which saw Tong lead the Heritage Orchestra and raised eyebrows among traditionalists when it was first announced, has been most listened-to event of the 35 Proms so far, beating Bach, Beethoven and Debussy ..

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Commuter Stephen Tillyer denies stealing viola worth £300000 from train - Kent Online

He allegedly told the officer: “This is a mistake. I haven't stolen anything. I picked something up on the train.” PC Tomlin said Tillyer then took him to a vehicle in the car park where the viola and its case and the schoolboy's rucksack were found in ...

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Seoul Philharmonic in 'growing pains' - Korea Times

CEO Choe Heung-sik said Tuesday he is confident the orchestra will grow into a world-class one once it overcomes the growing pains it is currently experiencing.

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LA Phil's Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla is promoted to associate conductor - Los Angeles Times

Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla is having perhaps the best year in her budding career. After a stellar debut at the Hollywood Bowl last year, the 2012 winner of Salzburg, Austria's, young conductor competition has been promoted from assistant conductor ...

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Ivory ban impact on orchestras and musicians

What if you do not have time to obtain a document for your instrument inasmuch as it may take up to sixty days? Welcome to the life of a traveling musician in the 21st century.

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Maestro Ozawa cancels opera job after breaking hip

Ozawa fell in a bathroom at a Tokyo hospital where he was staying due to a common cold, Kyodo News agency said.

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Rare $5m violin stolen 35 years ago in Cambridge to be returned

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Bernard Ingham so wrong on The Rite

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Cultural affairs for cultivated people

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Operating theatre teams should review use of background music, study suggests

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The Proms, BBC's Classical Music Festival, Is All the More Important as austerity looms

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The surgeon's cut: what do doctors listen to in the operating theatre?

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The night the music stopped

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Aspen Music Fest students offer help on the Audition Trail

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Salvaging tones at a burned museum

Employees of the Ringve Museum were sifting through the rubble Tuesday morning of the historic building that’s been Norway’s premier showplace for centuries of art and antique musical instruments.

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New York's Metropolitan Opera drops use of blackface in production of 'Otello

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Musical activism: Greenpeace is not the first

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Violinist Yosuke Kawasaki wins appeal against $120000 border fine

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A Mahler Symphony Squeezed In A Squeezebox

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Hong Kong Children's Symphony Orchestra set for historic Vienna debut

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Boston Symphony Orchestra extends music director's contract

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Tom Morris on tackling the traditions of the concert-hall – without resorting to gimmicks

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Musicians launch campaign to save the bassoon as shortage threatens orchestra

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Alison Balsom at Bristol Proms

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Could opera improve the tenor of political debate?

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Chorégies d'Orange : Bertrand de Billy et une musicienne de l'ONF blessés par des jets de pierres

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Access all arias: how a 16th-century choral work is helping us reach new audiences

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Singapore's first inclusive orchestra debuts

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BBC National Orchestra of Wales to visit Patagonia

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Why you won’t catch a British politician at the opera

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At school I was quiet, uncertain. And then a violin gave me my voice.

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We filmed Mari and Håkon Samuelsen playing Halvorsen's unique, completely ballistic spin on a Handel classic.

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We filmed Mari and Håkon Samuelsen playing Halvorsen's unique, completely ballistic spin on a Handel classic.

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Why are symphony orchestras expected to survive indefinitely?

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Everett 'Vic' Firth, percussionist who manufactured drumsticks, dies at 85

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Want to upgrade your cello? Try covering it in Styrofoam

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Why the Chinese love Germany's National Youth Orchestra

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Brassed off: the music teachers on zero-hours contracts

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Metropolitan Opera Streaming Service Expands to Roku

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What's Behind Stagefright? - The New Yorker

Stagefright has been aptly described as “self-poisoning by adrenaline.” In response to stress, the adrenal glands pump the hormone epinephrine (adrenaline) into the bloodstream, causing the body to shift into a state of high arousal.

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Sir Andrew Davis to lead Melbourne Symphony Orchestra until 2019

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has confirmed the maestro will extend his original four-year tenure to lead the orchestra until 2019, parallel to his work with Chicago's Lyric Opera and the Toronto and BBC Symphony Orchestras.

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The Santa Fe Opera: How to build a $22 million per year American opera factory

It recently leased rights to a local phone service provider to install cell towers on the property. "That's a little income stream that not many opera companies have," said MacKay...

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New Bayreuth Wagner museum confronts family Nazi ties head on

Revamped and doubled in size at a cost of 20 million euros, the museum for the first time displays Wagner's anti-Semitic screeds, which he published in his youth anonymously, then under his own name before he died in 1883.

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Renowned conductor Joseph Cullen jailed for abusing boys

A Grammy Award-winning conductor has been jailed for 12 months for sexually abusing two young boys in Glasgow. Joseph Cullen groomed his victims in the late 1970s and 80s while involved with choirs at the city's St Aloysius Church and St Andrew's ...

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Take that, Take That! Violinist André Rieu sets new music-concert record at UK cinemas

The immaculately coiffured fiddler took £1.1m at British cinemas this week, making him more popular than One Direction and Take That

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Montreal musician and her cello left behind after Air Canada ticketing mishap

In the end, the journey that should have been a five hour direct flight took Stewart nearly 22 hours. Stewart said the only compensation she was offered for the ordeal was a sandwich.

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Hallé orchestral concerts deserve the audience's full attention - The Guardian

The GuardianHallé orchestral concerts deserve the audience's full attentionThe GuardianMany concert-goers, like me, will be disappointed that the Hallé is planning to allow patrons at its orchestral concerts to come and go as they please, and to bring drinks into the auditorium (Report, theguardian.com, 21 July). This strikes me as a ...Hallé Orchestra have website redesigned by We are ADManchester Evening NewsWe are AD to conduct redesign of The Hallé's websiteProlific Northall 3 news articles 

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Clarinettist John McCaw dies aged 96

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sleepwalking girl playing the piano (and it sounds a lot like Arvo Pärt)

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Critically-acclaimed director of Kentucky Opera killed in a car crash

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Director discovers secret film score for Magnificent Seven remake

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‘I’m under no pressure to get rid of an orchestra’ : Radio 3 boss Alan Davey's typical day

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Air Malta has apologised to a woman who booked two seats for her and her cello, only to find that the instrument’s seat had been sold when she arrived at the gate.

Check-in staff told Ms Swallow to go the gate and try convince someone to give up their seat for a later flight, to no avail.

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Halle Orchestra lets audience set ticket price for show

Audience members will be invited to pay what they like for what they hear at an upcoming Halle Orchestra concert...

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard opens a world of imagination in Ligeti's piano music

Another week, another site that demonstrates a brilliant use of the possibilities of the web to enrich musical experience in hitherto-undreamed-of ways...

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Virtual reality headsets put audience 'on stage' with Adelaide Symphony

Audiences in South Australia's capital will wear virtual reality headsets this week to see and hear ASO performances, with a promise that music lovers will find it a richer concert experience...

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Heather Mills teaches daughter because Sir Paul McCartney can't read music

Speaking this weekend, she said: 'I think she's got the best of both of us, we're both very musical. I taught her the saxophone because her father can't read music, so I do all the music teaching.

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Season for 'go-getter' Lyric Opera manager ends

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Cleveland Orchestra principal clarinet Franklin Cohen happily enters new phase of music-making

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A top singer's guide to getting through that long, long rehearsal

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Tracing Back to the World's Oldest Known Cello

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New grant offers step up for minorities in orchestras

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Composer John Rutter on turning 70, writing for the Queen, and why he wears his heart on his sleeve

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Radio France : Mathieu Gallet envisage 350 départs volontaires

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Violin section cancelled at 2015 Beijing International Music Competition

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Interview: Violinist David Chan, a member of Local 802 since 1999, is the concertmaster of the MET Orchestra and an active soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician.

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Conductor Mark Elder: 'I owe Australia my career'

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Tonight one of Covent Garden's best-loved productions bows out after 41 years. Pamela Binns, 84, has been in it from the start

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These opera glasses deliver subtitles

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How to memorise a symphony

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The real winner in the Tchaikovsky competition is the man who came last

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Verdi letters bought by Italian rest home for retired musicians

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Interview : Julie Landsman broke the ice when she won the 1985 audition – behind a screen – for principal horn player at the Metropolitan Opera.

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7 incredible videos of musical instruments in super-slow motion

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Die Berliner Philharmoniker leisten sich in einer Aufnahme von Schuberts 5. Sinfonie einen kuriosen Patzer. Keiner hat ihn bemerkt.

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Police look for opera hold-up man

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Russian soprano Netrebko to debut in Arab World at Lebanese festival

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Recording discovered of 1938 world premiere performance of Britten Piano Concerto

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