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Ukraine ‘Pianist-Extremist’ refuses to be unmasked
Playing music including Chopin and Einaudi, the mystery music college student continues to perform outside City Hall in Ukraine, protesting against the authorities, after President Viktor Yanukovich spurned an EU trade deal in favour of dealings with Moscow.
Fox News
Owner of stolen 1715 Stradivarius violin releases statement
The owner of the 1715 Lipinski Stradivarius violin that was stolen from Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond released a statement yesterday.
Miami Herald
Memphis Symphony Orchestra prepares to “wind down”
Barring a massive funding infusion, Memphis Symphony Orchestra board members have approved a resolution to “wind-down” the organization’s operations at the end of the season
Muti extends CSO contract through 2020, and holds forth on several subjects
More than halfway through a press conference announcing the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2014-2015 season, Riccardo Muti playfully revealed that he had just signed a contract extension to continue as the orchestra’s music director through 2020.
NPR Music
Duke Ellington’s Lost Opera, Forever A Work In Progress
Before his death, Duke Ellington started composing Queenie Pie, which he hoped would be a great American street opera. Composers have spent 40 years adapting it, trying to figure out what the Duke wanted for his unfinished opus.
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Sergiu Celibidaches “Berlin Recordings” sind jetzt in einer 12-CD-Box erschienen.
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