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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Sea Organ Zadar, Croatia by architect Nikola Bašić

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Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis receives Marian Anderson Award

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Sarasota Orchestra musicians get a raise

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The 'Other' Petrenko To Stay At The Oslo Philharmonic Until 2020

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Catrin Finch's Patagonia diary: 'Wales survives here through music'

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#endviolajokes

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Afghanistan's first female conductor

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Can an antique violin play again after its owner falls on it? Not impossible

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Hyogo composer wins first place in Geneva music contest

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Composer urges music education focus for children and 'babes in arms'

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Schools minister: 'Expose youngsters to classical music'

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Astronaut plays bagpipes on International Space Station

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My Crowdfunding Campaign: Meet the composer who’s raised $100,000 to make music for cats

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The first killer Apple TV app is about classical music

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First night of the Proms: British musical institution to make its Australian debut in Melbourne

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Who Says You Have to Graduate? The Story of a Big Music Gift at a Midwestern School

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5 things opera needs to do, to thrive and survive

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Tourte violin bow achieves world record price at auction

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This handmade forest xylophone plays Bach - That was recorded 5 years ago. The phone now looks very dated, but the 300-year-old cantata sounds as fresh as ever.

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Salem Chamber Orchestra to file for bankruptcy

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'Hopscotch,' the opera performed in cars, extends its sold-out LA run

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Orchestra de Paris musician offers reward for missing Storioni violin

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra appoints two new violists

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It's time to scotch the cliche that opera tickets are too expensive

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Fort Worth Orchestra Faces More Pay Cuts in Contract Talks

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October 21, 2015 conversation with composer, conductor and pianist, Thomas Adès.

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Arts salary survey reveals stark gender pay gap

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