Listen to Tchaikovsky banter with his friends in a 130-year-old recording

Not even the great Tchaikovsky was above taking part in a publicity stunt for the latest revolutionary recording technology.

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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians on strike, reject pay cut demand

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians are on strike after unanimously rejecting calls for a 15-percent pay cuts, pension changes and staffing cuts they say are proposed by management.

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Drugs haul found on Copenhagen Opera House roof

Police in the Danish capital Copenhagen have revealed that they seized 75kg (165lbs) of marijuana found on the roof of the city's prestigious Opera House earlier this year.

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Manhattan mechanical engineering students help to design rare saxophone mouthpiece with 3-D printer

The unique sound of a more than 170-year-old saxophone is one that few people today have had the opportunity to hear. Invented in the 1840s by Adolphe Sax, only 275 of the originals still exist around the world, with 65 tenor (classical) saxophones

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Saying goodbye to the pain of ballet

Carlos Acosta is one of the world's leading ballet dancers. Next week he bids farewell to classical ballet performing at the Royal Albert Hall.

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Orchestras need to get smarter, shouldn't change for the young, says visting trumpeter

For Balio, principal trumpet for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for the past 15 years, finding that will involves a renewed appreciation of why classical music works and what it requires. “There's not a lack of demand for classical music.

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Against all odds, rising opera star fulfills dream of singing at the Met - CBS News

With a rich, robust voice and a presence commanding the stage, it’s easy to see why 6-foot-5 Ryan Speedo Green is considered one of the world’s most promising stars of opera, gracing top stages in Europe and the U.S. But his improbable rise to the heights of one of the most elite of all the arts has its roots in poverty and violence, reports CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford. Green, 30, said his father was largely absent in his life, and he had a “volatile relationship” with his mother growin

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