Saturday's Minnesota Orchestra concert designed for audiences confronting 'racism and injustice'

Take a look around at a typical orchestral concert in the Twin Cities, and you won't see many people of color. Roderick Cox, associate conductor at the Minnesota Orchestra, wants to change that.

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Would Joshua Bell Stop To Listen To A Violinist In A Subway?

Note: Bell was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize–winning feature story by Washington Post reporter Gene Weingarten in which he played his violin incognito outside a D.C. subway station for 45 minutes. He went largely unrecognized and earned only $32.17

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Four Female Conductors Take the Stage at the LA Phil

That may not seem like a lot over the course of an 8-month concert season, but it is considerably more than any other major orchestra in the United States (that has announced their 2017-18 season so far).

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Maxwell Quartet winner of 9th Trondheim Competition

The Final rounds of the 9th TICC competition was held Saturday 30 September in the Freemasons Hall in Trondheim, Norway. The Scottish Maxwell Quartet won the competiton with festival engagements and 15 000 €. As well as convincing the jury, the quartet also won the audience prize, and are invited back to next year’s festival as festival artists.

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Music teacher suspected of contaminating flutes with semen, roiling Southern California school districts

Two Southern California school districts were giving conflicting messages over the weekend as they attempted to guide parents through a scare touched off last week by a state and federal investigation of a music specialist suspected of contaminating musical instruments with semen.

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Sydney Symphony Orchestra board's dramatic u-turn on same-sex marriage

After days of turmoil and anger that threatened to tear the Sydney Symphony Orchestra apart, the orchestra's board has staged a stunning back-flip on the issue .

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Conductor David Heusel has died

Mr Heusel was due to conduct the RTE Concert Orchestra at the NCH in Dublin on Saturday night with singers Cara O’Sullivan and Noah Stewart

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