Guildhall School of Music and Drama pictures what its orchestra would look like minus EU students

Before the vote, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama released striking photographs of its young symphony orchestra with and without EU students. In total, 49 of its 109 orchestra members come from other European Union countries.

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Cleveland Orchestra appoints Wesley Collins, former student of Robert Vernon, principal violist - (blog)

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Kentucky Opera names new general director

Kentucky Opera named current Dallas Opera artistic administrator Ian Derrer as the company’s next general director on Monday, nearly a year after the sudden death of its previous leader David Roth.

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Can classical music reach a new audience through unlikely venues?

Where can we expect to hear performances of classical music these days? In a concert hall, most likely – a gleaming culture palace with cushy seats and finely calibrated acoustics.

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'Classical musicians must be innovative and personal, without violating tradition,' says Tim Frederiksen

The difficult thing about being a classical musician is that you must show you can master, at a very high level, what great personalities have mastered before, but at the same time you have to be innovative and find a new angle

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Musicians protest Brexit tensions with Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' in London

On Friday evening, after the referendum's result was announced, musicians assembled outside St-Martin-in-the-Fields in central London for a spontaneous performance of the Ode to Joy from the finale Beethoven's Choral Symphony.

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The Cliburn competition for amateurs has been won by a periodontist from Canada, Thomas Yu

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Search for founder of Nottingham Symphony Orchestra's wedding march

The granddaughter of a composer, who founded the Nottingham Symphony Orchestra, is searching for a wedding march he wrote in 1955.

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US: Refugees set up orchestra in New York

After fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries, a number of musicians have come together to set up an orchestra in New York.

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Key change: President set to depart Toledo Symphony

Kathleen Carroll, president and CEO of the Toledo Symphony, will officially step out of her office for the last time. She will close a door on a career that has spanned nearly 30 years

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Oboist Alex Klein to return as CSO principal

Alex Klein, former principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, is expected to return to his old position, having won the audition for that coveted post on Friday, according to music director Riccardo Muti.

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Philip Glass on David Bowie: 'He was a master unto himself'

In a spectacular tribute to David Bowie, the US composer’s Heroes symphony is being performed at midnight on Saturday at Glastonbury’s Park stage.

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Longtime San Diego opera conductor dies

Müller started his career as a pianist then built his conducting skills by serving as an assistant to some of the 20th century's greatest opera conductors, including Karl Böhm, Carlos Kleiber, Claudio Abbado and Francesco Molinari-Pradelli.

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Artitude: Opera Naples lost 4 execs in 3 years, seeks fifth

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Arts hit back at Brexit: 'I feel nothing but rage'

Leading figures from the arts – including Lucy Prebble, Anish Kapoor, Ivo van Hove and Barrie Rutter – reveal their shock, anger and revulsion at the vote to leave the EUEU referendum outcome - liveI feel nothing but rage.

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Hendrix and Handel Slept Here: A Museum's Strange Bedfellows

The apartment was next door to the former home of a German-born composer as famous in his day as Hendrix was in the late 1960s: Georg Frideric Handel. Handel lived in the Georgian house at 25 Brook Street for 36 years, from 1723 until his death,

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Niarchos foundation unveils new Athens opera, national library

A leading Greek foundation on Friday unveiled a sprawling new park, opera and national library in southern Athens designed to “give hope” to a country brought low by a six-year economic crisis.

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Damon Albarn and the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians put Glastonbury's Brexit anxiety into perspective

On the morning after the referendum before, Glastonbury was in a state of hungover listlesness.

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How Jaap van Zweden Became America's Best-Paid Conductor in 2013

..he apparently set a record as the nation's top-paid conductor when his current ensemble, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, paid him $5,110,538 in 2013, according to an analysis of the orchestra's tax filings that was released this week.

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The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Labor Dispute Explained

WMUKStart says the symphony didn't discuss the schedule change with the musicians before adding it to their agreement. The KSO players had been working under an old contract since 2014,

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Syrian National Orchestra: ‘When there is violence, you have to make music'

With war ravaging their homeland, the Syrian National Orchestra have been scattered across the globe. But five years since the violence erupted, the group are reuniting for a cathartic tour – and opening Glastonbury

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Dallas Opera to Support Women Conductors 'For the Long Haul'

The organization has committed to running the Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors for 20 years, 15 more than initially promised

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This piano uses animated figures to show musical movement

For this one, entitled ‘Andante’, they’ve somehow managed to project walking figures (and, at one point, a small ostrich) on the face of a piano so they appear to be playing the notes as they tread on them.

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This epic page turn fail is your schadenfreude for the week

This guy at a the International Music Academy of Liechtenstein is having all of the page-turning nightmares at once…

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Opera North director warns of isolationism from Brexit vote

Richard Mantle, general director at Opera North, expressed fears a Leave vote in today's EU referendum could isolate UK cultural organisations from their European counterparts.

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Storm Warnings: The future of orchestras

by Joe Horowitz

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Harry Rabinowitz, TV and film composer and conductor, dies aged 100

Harry Rabinowitz, TV and film composer and conductor, dies aged 100. He also conducted the original 1979 TV premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Tell Me on a Sunday and was the first conductor of the hit musical, Cats. He also composed memorable television scores, such as I, Claudius and Reilly, Ace of Spies .

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Harry Rabinowitz, TV and film composer and conductor, dies aged 100

Harry Rabinowitz, TV and film composer and conductor, dies aged 100. He also conducted the original 1979 TV premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Tell Me on a Sunday and was the first conductor of the hit musical, Cats. He also composed memorable television scores, such as I, Claudius and Reilly, Ace of Spies .

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Violinist Perlman slams Trump for mocking disabled reporter

Presumptive Republican candidate’s behavior was ‘horrible, horrible, horrible,’ says Israeli-American musician, who will vote for Clinton

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Robot choir sings Beethoven's Choral Symphony and people can't decide if it's brilliant or creepy

Viewed on Facebook more than 46,100 times, Kayley Williams commented: "It sounds like when I go into the toy isle and push all the buttons on the talking toys."

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Transgender violinist lobbies with music - Enid News & Eagle

Dressed in a red, floor-length gown, Robbie Dee Ewens stood in the center of the Capitol Rotunda, eyes closed, entranced by a stream of notes flowing from her electric violin.

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Bombshell: The top-paid US conductor of all time is…

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Cellist is arrested in Moscow, charged with 'organising a rally'

A cellist, Semyon Lashkin, was sitting on a street bench practising a few summer riffs with a couple of pals when police seized him and his cello and swept them off to the cells. Semyon has been charged with organising a public rally

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Syrian opera singer joins chorus of protest after performing with US refugee orchestra

Lubana al-Quntar has been in the United States for five years after leaving Syria five months into its conflict.

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Spider silk violin catches customized sound - Gizmag

Spider silk may be known for being extremely strong, yet it's also elastic – that's how it's able to both hold struggling prey, and alert spiders to that prey by transmitting vibrations caused by those struggles.

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Mamma Mia! listening to Mozart lowers blood pressure…but ABBA has no impact - Telegraph.co.uk

Telegraph.co.ukMamma Mia! listening to Mozart lowers blood pressure…but ABBA has no impactTelegraph.co.ukRelaxing to a soothing Mozart symphony can lower the blood pressure as much as cutting salt from the diet or exercising, a new study has shown. But for people concerned about their heart, it might be wise to stay clear of ABBA, which has no impact at all.Why Mozart beats Abba when it comes to the heart and blood pressureDaily MailThe healing powers of music: Mozart and Strauss for treating hy

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Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi solemn gig in the Arctic

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100.000-Euro-Geige aus S-Bahn zurückgegeben

Violin recovered.

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Horror video: Conductor sends soloist's violin flying

Rómulo Assis was playing the Tchaikovsky concerto in Amarante, northern Portugal, when an extravagant gesture by the conductor Nuno Côrte-Real hit the violin out of his hands and sent it crashing to the floor.

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Orchestras put tough questions under the spotlight

In short, there was something for everyone, including some interesting hypotheses about an orchestra’s role.

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The cellist, the street person and me

Privileged or not, all of us are a sum of our experiences — and we're all engaged in the pursuit of putting the pieces together.

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Symphony hires short-term chief operating officer

The Winston-Salem Symphony has appointed Art Bloom, a business consultant and former marketing executive, to be its chief operating officer.

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Leading the Orchestra, an Outsider Invited In

But Mr. Abdullah, 36, who was born in Indianapolis and grew up in Washington and Dayton, Ohio,.....“A lot of people say ‘diversity is great,’ and those are all nice taking points,” he added. “But as far as making sure the opportunities are given to everyone — that still falls quite short.”

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Russia cannot afford to buy Rachmaninov's house

Blaming international sanctions and domestic economic difficulties, the Russian culture minister Vladimir Medinsky has abandoned his attempt to purchase the composer's Swiss lakeside home, named Senar, for the Russian nation.

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Mothers of invention: the women who pioneered electronic music

A new festival celebrates Daphne Oram, Laurie Spiegel and other female synth wizardsIt’s not often, if at all, that you find a festival focusing on women in electronic music without making gender the star attraction.

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Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra names Fouad Fakhouri new music director

A total of 197 people applied for the music director position after former Director Brett Mitchell announced he was leaving the orchestra in April 2014.

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NZSO Trombonist breaks records in New York. Now he's back performing in NZ

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra trombonist, David Bremner, has arrived back from New York's, record breaking, international celebration of the trombone.

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Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli collaborate: archive 17 June 1972

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World famous opera singer who sang at the Last Night of the Kop has died

Liverpool-born Alberto Remedios, 81, was a Cammell Laird dockyard welder who became one of the most renowned Wagnerian tenors

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Deutsche Grammophon signs 15-year-old violinist Daniel Lozakovich

While his young age will undoubtably grab attention, it's worth noting that he follows in the footsteps of Anne-Sophie Mutter, who made her first recording with DG aged 15, in Mozart's Third and Fifth violin concertos with Herbert von Karajan

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Led Zeppelin appear in court over Stairway to Heaven dispute

Members of the rock band Led Zeppelin have appeared in court to deny borrowing from another song for their 1971 hit Stairway To Heaven.

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Australian Ballet music director calls out sexism in classical music world

'I've had managers of orchestras say to me, "We love your work, but we can't employ you because you're a woman," as though that was an explanation in itself.'

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From the classical archive 1970: The rebuilt Snape Maltings concert hall

14 May 1970: No one thinks they are going to sit the Queen on a packing-case when she opens the rebuilt Maltings Concert Hall less than a month from now, but completion of the work is touch and go.

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New composer-in-residence for Opera Philadelphia - Philly.com (blog)

Orth, originally from Dallas, lives in Philadelphia. She shares the composers' roster with David T. Little, who was appointed in June 2014, and David Hertzberg, appointed in June 2015.

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Joyce DiDonato has posted a powerful response to the Orlando shootings

Soprano Joyce DiDonato has re-posted a video of herself singing Purcell’s ‘When I Am Laid In Earth’ at the Stonewall Inn in New York.

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This visualisation of a Bach prelude lets you see just how clever the piece really is

J.S. Bach’s Prelude in C major from the first Well Tempered Clavier volume is a gem of mathematical beauty. And now you can see exactly how beautiful it really is.

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How orchestras pursue a new lease on life

“We need to ask ourselves if artistic excellence is the ultimate goal. Other things may be more important.” She said it. Sitting on the stage of the Meyerhoff concert hall in Baltimore last week, the conductor Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, stated a question that’s been lurking around the edges of the orchestra world.

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Philanthropist, Detroit orchestra supporter Marjorie Fisher dies at 92

The Fishers were known for their support of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. They funded an orchestra hall expansion and construction of a 135,000-square-foot facility named the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, which opened in 2003.

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Musician 'kicked off' United Airlines flight for attempting to stow her violin safely

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Colin Matthews at 70 - the composer at the heart of the UK's musical life

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England: GCSE and A level figures show a further drop in music

New figures published by the Department for Education (DfE) (Friday 3 June) show a drop in entries for GCSE and A level music.

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Australian violinist wins Royal Over-Seas League Gold Medal

Violinist Emily Sun has won the Grand Final of the Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL) Annual Music Competition, which took place at Cadogan Hall, London on Wednesday 1 June.

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Why are some concert halls acoustically loved by audiences and others are not?

Nicholas Edwards has provided acoustic design for some of the most loved music and theatrical venues in the world. In this video, Nick shares what makes concert hall acoustics vary widely--even when they are of similar shape--and the key to making a hall loved by audiences.

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Orchestra's talented CEO preparing for well-deserved retirement

Orchestra's talented CEO preparing for well-deserved retirementToledo BladeA shy and modest man by nature, he quietly guided TSO while playing percussion in the orchestra and mentoring a development director who would eventually assume his responsibilities.

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Crowdfunding for Performing Arts: Opera Di Firenze on Stage

Despite their obvious engagement capacity, crowdfunding projects in the performing arts still have a very low average deal size.

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Some grade-A music geek has turned Adele’s Hello into a Bach Fugue

Giovanni Dettori : His music is characterized by the rejection of dichotomies such as classical/pop or high culture/low culture, unveiling his belief that every human expression, if genuine, is worth investigating.

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List of Musicians in Queen's Birthday Honours

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Beyoncé dancing to a Shostakovich symphony works surprisingly well

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Alison Balsom awarded OBE in The Queen's Birthday Honours

Trumpeter honoured for services to music, alongside pianist Paul Lewis and other celebrities.

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Want to play in school orchestra? Live in right district -

Ventura County StarIf you want to play violin in a high school orchestra, you have to live in the right school district, or transfer into one. Six local school districts have strings programs in at least one of their high schools, most of them on the more affluent

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Conduct an Epic Orchestra on Apple TV

Epic Orchestra for Apple TV makes you the maestro. Conduct your orchestra to play magnificent music from Beethoven, Mozart, and other talented composers in this new rhythm game. With a total of 15 levels, 27 Game Center achievements, three difficulty

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Being deaf in one ear made me the composer I am today

Aleah Morrison-Basu describes how the need to overcome her partial deafness has shaped her creative process

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Finally, a Playable Version of the World's Tiniest Violin

It doesn't take much practice to learn to play the world's tiniest violin—just a complete and utter lack of sympathy for what someone else is complaining about.

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Conductor’s home for sale

It used to be Sir Malcolm Sargent’s mansion in the Bucks-Fizz stockbroker belt. The conductor sold it for £40,000 to the pop singer Cilla Black.

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Janitor chases dream job as an opera singer

You see, Kyles may work long hours (90 hours a week to be exact) but it's all part of his journey to someday become a professional opera singer.

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Orchestra in Thailand is made up entirely of blind musicians

In Thailand, some Buddhists view physical or intellectual disability as punishment manifested for wrongdoing in a past life. The Thai Blind Orchestra, made up of children as young as 9, hopes to help combat this perception through its musical training ...

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Violinist forced to carry unprotected instrument on lap on British Airways flight

The StradDutch–Italian violinist Cecilia Bernardini was forced to remove her 18th-century instrument from its case and carry it on her lap on a recent British Airways flight when staff refused to allow the case in the cabin.

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When Classical Musicians Go Digital

That hunt is still central to the art of a classical musician. But these days there are new weapons. Increasing numbers of players are using iPads and laptops instead of sheet music, especially now that the latest generation of tablets

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Kelsey Grammer: 'I didn't quite have the juice to become an opera singer'

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‘We’re the only orchestra that elects its chief conductor’

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In Baltimore, the largely white orchestra world talks diversity

The League of American Orchestras, representing a mostly white industry, opens a three-day national conference Thursday in a majority African-American city at a time of increased racial tensions and heightened awareness of economic and educational

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Edmonds man participates in setting Guinness Book trombone record

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Cleveland Orchestra cheers Cavaliers in second Twitter match with San Francisco Symphony (blog)

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Orchestra Mozart ritorna il 6 gennaio

Dopo 3 anni silenzio. E' il complesso sinfonico creato da Abbado

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Juilliard-trained cellist embraces her own immigrant story

uilliard-trained cellist Christine Lamprea saw one of her biggest dreams come true last month: She had her first performance ever in Colombia, the country her parents left almost 50 years ago.

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Guitars and treasured violin stolen but Pat McManus' show will go on

"We had parked the unmarked van at a hotel after a gig in Leeds," he added. "We reversed it tight against a 15ft wall, but the thieves broke in through the passenger's door and rolled the vehicle forwards to gain access to our equipment through the back doors.

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Anish Kapoor on Wagner: 'He was antisemitic and I'm Jewish. Who cares?

As his set designs for ENO’s Tristan and Isolde are unveiled, Anish Kapoor talks about the flak they’ve caused him, his new record-breaking slide – and how he got his own back on the Frenchman who sued him

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US orchestra enters road to decade of China residency

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Star violinist sees himself blackmailed by porn star

Top musician David Garrett defends himself in the "Welt" against serious allegations made by his ex-girlfriend

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13-year-old Laura Bretan’s Nessun Dorma ‘raises deep concerns’ says singing teacher

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Yo-Yo Ma's musical mission for peace

Yo-Yo Ma is by far the world's best known cellist, but he's also made it his mission to bring about peaceful change through music.

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Music composer Ilayaraja gets into minor scuffle with Bengaluru airport security over 'prasad'

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Plea for return of trombone

Members of a long-standing Napier-based church and community band are desperate to recover their prized trombone which was stolen in a burglary in Bay View on Friday.

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New feature film to tell of architect's struggle for the Sydney Opera House

'We have creativity versus bureaucracy and political manoeuvring ranging from friend to foe,' said producer Jan Marnell

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Will Yannick Nézet-Séguin Come Too Late for the Metropolitan Opera?

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On Child Singing Prodigies By a Former Nine Year Old "Opera Singer"

I did, in fact, audition for Star Search once, but it didn't even occur to me to sing an opera aria for the audition.

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Making Music Together: A Look at Diversity in Orchestras

Merit's Executive Director Charlie Grode knows it's not just the cost of instruments or lessons that could prevent students like Isaias from learning the orchestra. Lack of exposure to classical music at a young age is another barrier.

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Sir Simon Rattle: 'Music can’t be a matter of privilege or chance'

"I mean, my orchestra here, they work hard, but if they worked the LSO schedule for a month they would all be in hospital. "

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Concerns from Women Conductors

As The Dallas Opera prepares to announce the second class of participants for the Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors, General Director and CEO Keith Cerny reflects on continuing challenges cited in the application process.

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Muhammad Ali ‘was also a musician’

according to the Louisville Symphony music director, Teddy Abrams….

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Porn star claims famous violinist ex forced her to drink his pee

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Renowned soprano and longtime Tanglewood teacher Phyllis Curtin passes away at 94

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KC Symphony musicians agree to new contract

“We were losing too many talented musicians to other orchestras, and while we will not be able to keep them from going to Chicago and Boston and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, maybe we could do more with salary and working conditions to keep them from going to Utah, Oregon, Nashville or even Cincinnati,”

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Orlando Orchestra's Leader Leaps From Cellist to Conductor

As a young classical music conductor in a town known more for Mickey Mouse than Mahler, Eric Jacobsen faces a double challenge: Live up to the promise of his youth and innovative background, and somehow discover the magic formula to lure young audiences to the concert hall.

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When should opera stars take a final bow? - Telegraph.co.uk

...all too often the big stars carry on even when their pitch wobbles, their tone hardens and their stamina fades. Why? Partly – to be brutal about it – because, like the rest of us, they want the money...

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The Metropolitan Opera Baton Passes To Yannick Nézet-Séguin - NPR

It's not quite right to say the news came as a shock when the Metropolitan Opera announced Thursday that Yannick Nézet-Séguin would become the house's new music director, beginning in the 2020-21 season. He follows in the footsteps of James Levine..

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British para-orchestra plays at Colston Hall - ITV News

Based in Bristol, the South-West Open Youth Orchestra is the first of its kind, working with young disabled musicians who play a range of musical instruments, including a custom-made digital musical instrument called Clarion that can be controlled ...

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An 18-year-old Japanese violinist has won pretty much everything at the Montreal International Violin Competition

Ayana Tsuji has won the Montreal International Violin Competition, and managed to take home a huge range of special prizes too.

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The importance of a one-handed saxophone - BBC News

Designed to be performed at virtuoso level, the tenor and soprano saxophones developed by Maarten Visser won for 2016. Neill Duncan, a ... A professional saxophonist for 30 years, he had his left arm amputated three years ago

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Philadelphia Orchestra music director to stay until 2026

The Philadelphia Orchestra announced Thursday that music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will extend his contract with the orchestra through the 2025-26 season. By that time, Nézet-Séguin will have been music director with the orchestra for 14 years

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SLSO appoints Gemma New as resident conductor

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointment of the ensemble's new resident conductor, New Zealand native Gemma New.

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Houston Grand Opera is doing better than the Met

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Someone has superimposed a massive tuba onto Donald Trump and it’s surprisingly convincing

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This is the kind of music you should listen to at work

They say that listening to Mozart makes a person smarter, but it is not only classical music that boosts mental activity. Nine out of 10 workers perform better when listening to music

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European Youth Orchestra will be able to continue its activities

The Commission wants to keep the spirit of the Orchestra alive, by allowing it to train the best European musicians in Europe for the benefit of all European territories. We count on the Orchestra in these challenging times to adapt their activities

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The Süddeutsche Zeitung dedicated its letters page this weekend to supporters of Siegfried Mauser, the former rector of the Academy of Music who was found guilty of groping a resisting female colleagu

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M&S turns off music in stores as ageing customers complain about the noise

Experts say background noise can makes shoppers with hearing problems and dementia a less pleasant experience

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Changing of the guard at RTÉ orchestras presents an opportunity

Principal conductors are a focus for audiences. They help establish an orchestra’s character and shape its identity, and in many ways they can effectively set the parameters of its musical potential.

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Montreal International Music Competition 2016 names six violin finalists

The finals of the 2016 Montreal International Music Competition – this year dedicated to the violin – are currently under way, featuring six shortlisted violinists competing for over $86,000 in prizes – including a top prize of $30,000 and concert

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