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Telegraph
Manitas de Plata, gypsy guitarist, dies aged 93
Manitas de Plata, the flamboyant gypsy guitarist who sold nearly 100 million records and inspired Pablo Picasso, has died in France
Classical Music Magazine
CBSO to play in Abu Dhabi, UAE, for first time in December
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is to perform in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates for the first time next month, with concerts on 15 and 16 December.
The Strad
Stradivarius violin is top lot at Beare’s first online auction
The c.1698 instrument went for £1.7m during the sale in Late October
International Arts Manager
LSO PLAY, the London Symphony Orchestra’s immersive online platform, has won a 2014 Lovie Award.
The Herald Scotland
Composers express anger at funding cut for music festival
Prominent figures in the world of classical music have expressed shock and dismay at the cut of funding to one of Scotland’s leading music festivals.
Zeit Online
Warum Anna Netrebko nicht in München singen will
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Als Instrumentenbauer und Musiker erfand er einen der Paradiesvögel unter den Instrumenten und war selbst nicht weniger originell.
Musik Heute
Internationaler Berliner Bach-Wettbewerb ausgeschrieben
Die Berliner Universität der Künste hat den zweiten Internationalen Bach-Wettbewerb für Ensembles auf historischen Instrumenten (BBW) ausgeschrieben.
Codex Flores
Solopianistin des Beethoven-Orchesters von Ehemann erdrosselt
Laut einer Mitteilung der Bonner Staatsanwaltschaft ist Kate de Marcken, die Solopianistin des Beethovens Orchesters Bonn von ihrem Mann, der im gleichen Ensemble als Cellist tätig ist, erdrosselt worden.
The New York Times
Manitas de Plata, Superstar of the Flamenco Guitar, Is Dead at 93
Manitas de Plata, a celebrity of flamenco guitar who sold millions of records, befriended Salvador Dalí and Brigitte Bardot, performed for raucous crowds at Carnegie Hall, made and spent fortunes and generally lived a life of fulfilled appetites, all after growing up poor and illiterate, died on Thursday in Montpellier, France.
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Manitas de Plata performing in Paris in 1983. He wasn’t classically trained, yet went on to sell millions of records. Photo: Dominique Faget/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images