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02/05 New York Met Goes Global
02/02 Sony Pays $3 Million to Win Pianist Lang Lang: Norman Lebrecht
01/31 SF Symphony, Fleming and Epstein win classical Grammy awards
01/23 Earl Wild, Pianist, Dies at 94
01/20 Domingo Triumphs at Met as Unlucky Old Doge of Genoa
01/15 House concerts an alternative to commercial shows
01/15 Domingo Makes History at Met Singing Baritone Role
01/14 Sony Classical Signs American Pianist Simone Dinnerstein
01/12 A Wife’s Betrayal, a Husband’s Internal Seething
01/04 Met’s Gala ‘Carmen’ Stars Franco’s Thugs, Latvian Diva
01/02 Asking Stars Not Just to Play, but Also to Stay
12/29 Unconventional Maestro Makes Met Debut With ‘Carmen’
12/21 Echoes of the Age of Bach
12/14 Gustavo Dudamel takes over the L.A. Philharmonic
12/13 Young faces on the podium are adding verve to Britain's orchestras
12/10 Notes From Leonardo’s Musical Dreams
12/07 Musical surgeon examines the OR soundtrack
12/07 Film composers lose luster
12/04 Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Slatkin recounts heart attack
11/25 Haydn expert HC Robbins Landon dies at 83
11/19 Carnegie Hall Selling Bonds to Remodel
11/17 Ten Questions For A Critic: The State Of Classical Music
11/14 Liona Boyd: five years of healing, two new albums
11/14 Opera’s push into the mainstream
11/12 What If You Could Recreate Live Performances By Dead Artists
11/12 Adventurous City Opera's latest savior
11/11 Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Slatkin cancels concerts
11/11 He Was the Great Connector
11/11 Does an orchestra really need a chief conductor?
11/10 Lover of Birds and Opera Leaves Millions to Both
11/10 For $53 Million, Houston Ballerinas Won’t Dance Around Buckets
11/09 Gustavo Dudamel and Alan Gilbert: a maestro mano a mano
11/06 Barenboim conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate
11/04 Obama greets White House classical music audience
11/03 Slatkin has a heart attack at the podium
11/02 Website has launched a world-wide competition to find a composer-in-residence.
10/28 Click here to listen to WPTF interview with WCPE Program Director and on-air personality Dick Storck!
10/27 Bright Young Maestros
10/24 Royal Conservatory's Koerner Hall deftly melds old and new
10/22 Amplification System Out at City Opera
10/22 van Zweden extends Dallas Symphony Orchestra contract
10/22 NYT: The New World on the Two Coasts
10/06 Conductor, 28, takes reins of Los Angeles Philharmonic
10/02 Photo Recap: Stemme Triumphs in New Tristan und Isolde
09/28 Pioneering spirit is helping American orchestras recover
09/25 Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist. May 23, 1923 - Sept. 25, 2009
09/22 New Face at Philharmonic Alters the Seating Chart
09/15 Record donations transform Charlotte Symphony
09/15 Placido Domingo offers free concert in Venezuela
09/07 Critics: 100 Best Classical Recordings
09/01 Cincinnati Pops’ Erich Kunzel dies
08/28 Murray Plays ‘Nude’ Violin, Debuts at Carnegie Hall: Interview
08/27 Anonymous donor to give to Charlotte Symphony if it can match the amount
08/19 James Taylor to give festival earnings to Boston symphony
08/18 Mozart’s Mysterious Death Blamed on Strep
08/13 Les Paul, Pioneer of Electric Guitar, Inventor, Dies at 94
08/10 Bernstein And Nixon's Plumbers
08/08 Carleen Hutchins, Innovative Violin Maker
08/06 Ilyich Rivas, 16, conducts the Atlanta Symphony
08/02 2 new Mozart works presented in Austria
08/02 Jahja Ling marks 25-year affiliation with the Cleveland Orchestra
07/28 Lois Hunt, Half of Popular Operatic Duo, Dies
07/28 Puccini opera set in China
07/27 Michael Steinberg passes- music critic, educator
07/23 Previously unknown music by Mozart!
07/20 The Ring master
07/20 How to Find a Missing Masterpiece
07/15 $100 Million for Stradivari Strings
07/15 Bolshoi Brings Powerful, Menacing ‘Onegin’ to La Scala: Review
07/13 Cubans clamour for Royal Ballet tickets
07/13 An Architect Puts Bach in a Musical Cocoon
07/06 Opera fans to see DiDonato perform with plaster
07/06 Lang Lang, Herbie Hancock in bold Montreux premiere
07/06 At Tanglewood, a violinist’s marathon
07/01 Russians and Jokes to Start the Summer
06/29 Classical music breaks down Palestinian, Israeli walls
06/25 Betty Allen, Opera Singer and Educator
06/24 Flutes Offer Clues to Stone-Age Music
06/22 BBC: Opera is 'Music for the Heart'
06/17 Seiji Ozawa cancels concerts
06/15 Domingo’s Virtuoso Powers Lure Crowds to Verona Festival Gala
06/14 Symphony conductor making movie music
06/12 For Maestro Maazel, It’s on to the Coda
06/12 Blind pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii takes cues from conductors’ breathing...
06/10 What Was the Jury Thinking?
06/04 A 60-Year Gig at the N.Y. Philharmonic
05/29 Is classical music trying to be fashionable?
05/27 A Baroque Gem’s Allure
05/26 Stately Works Befitting the Fallen
05/20 Nourishing the Arts in All Forms
05/18 Tom Service on Millionaire Maestros
05/18 What Bach and Beethoven have to say to Bjork
05/13 Ancient Music Revived At The Lune Convent
05/09 Kevin Spacey: I won't apologise for defending the arts
05/06 Erich Kunzel Talks About Cancer Diagnosis
04/29 Nikolaus Harnoncourt's new Mozart theory
04/23 As Manhattan Bus Rolls, Driver Polishes His Pavarotti
04/17 "I bring music back to life"
04/16 YouTube Orchestra Melds Music Live and Online
04/14 At an Age for Music and Dreams
04/12 Handel may have been a smart financial operator
04/06 Italy appoints its first female principal conductor
03/26 Fleisher plays Mozart in two-hand concerto return
03/25 Magnate Loans $50 Million Violins to Virtuoso
03/19 Rome Opera extends offer to Muti
03/16 The Ultimate Bosendorfer
03/16 A Gala of Singing and Nostalgia
03/12 45 Roles, 628 Performances. Why Stop?
03/04 The 5 Browns strive to lure younger crowd to classical music
03/03 Seidle earns spot in global collaboration
02/27 Haydn's Brave New World
02/27 Bryn Terfel Triumphs in Stormy ‘Flying Dutchman’
02/23 "Departures" surprises with Oscar
02/16 Inspiration! Meet Gustavo Dudamel, the New 27-Year-Old Conductor of the LA Philharmonic
02/07 WCPE's Bob Chapman in N&O: On a sad note, opera's in trouble
02/03 UK: Why classical programmes need to be more readable
01/31 LA Philharmonic not cutting back
01/30 Classical fans build vacations around music
01/27 A Tenor Spurned by La Scala Takes His Talents to the Met
01/26 Anoushka Shankar is currently collaborating with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
01/21 Humor: The classic way to drive youths away!
01/15 Emmy Winner Baldwin to Host "New York Philharmonic This Week" Broadcasts
01/14 Don't worry, be happy -- Bobby McFerrin's back
01/01 Puccini and Operetta? He Does It His Way
12/31 Classical: The best (and worst) of 2008
12/21 Piano serves as current of communication for deaf RIT student
12/17 The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra erased its deficit
12/16 ‘Tea and classical music’ approach to cut Brit drinkers’ rowdy behaviour
12/12 Do You Hear What I Hear? Holiday music is inescapable.
11/20 Galbraith Continues with Wagner's Ring - Week 3!
11/14 The pianist Leon Fleisher is back playing with two hands
11/11 Music to your ears is music for your heart, too!
11/06 Techno-Alchemy at the Opera
10/24 Classical Ghosts, Audible Once Again
10/21 Go-ahead granted for £12m Leeds dance centre
10/21 Wagner's 'Rienzi' takes a cartoon-like turn
10/16 CSO to give Chicago students gift of music
10/03 The Unsung Success of Live Classical Music
09/28 Esa-Pekka Salonen and L.A. Phil grow together
09/25 Violins of Holocaust victims played in Jerusalem concert
09/22 Curtain up for Royal Opera online
09/20 Piano industry loses a legend: Henry Steinway
09/18 Unknown score written by Mozart found in France!
09/17 Anonymous $2M gift endows free concerts
09/14 While abroad, CSO shows off its strengths and smashes some stereotypes, too
09/10 Conductor Vernon Handley has died
09/06 Encore for a Stradivarius
09/01 Half-Sister Duo to Direct Bayreuth
08/27 WCPE “Preview!” Features Chiara String Quartet
08/26 Finding a fit successor to Sawallisch
08/23 Gergiev's Russian Overture: A Symphony of Sympathies
08/21 Youth Orchestras: energy, freshness, and a passion for music
08/20 Met set on more opera
08/09 Daniel Barenboim: Playing for peace
08/03 Amid Despair in a Venezuelan Prison, Strains of Hope From a Music Program
08/03 WHEN the reclusive Argentine pianist Martha Argerich performs
07/24 Disorderly conduct: DJ Goldie conduct the Sinfonia Tamesa orchestra
07/13 WCPE - An Amazing Business Model
07/04 Music to rummage by: Pianist has turned Salvation Army thrift shop into a cabaret
06/26 WCPE's signature artist, Nick Meglin, talks about his MAD life...
06/22 Alana Vegter teaches a new kind of musician
06/20 Jeffrey Kahane webcasts from Aspen!
06/06 Yo-Yo Ma still revels in the joy of learning
05/29 Teacher's lessons go beyond music
05/05 Maestro Muti off to Chicago
04/27 German conductor makes belated Miami debut
04/14 Hilary Hahn: Performers Simpatico, but Parallel
03/31 Bravo Franco: Zeffirelli's Fabulous `Boheme' Returns to the Met
03/29 Orchestras expand recording options
03/26 Classical: Murray Perahia
03/18 Music 'can reduce chronic pain'
03/11 Margaret Atwood takes on role of librettist
03/07 Conductor in L.A. revives lost music of Holocaust
02/28 Amazing new portait of Bach emerges!
02/26 New York Philharmonic Gets Ovations in North Korea
02/24 Local NC artist to perform with NY Philharmonic
02/22 The NY Philharmonic will try a dash of Dvorak diplomacy
02/07 Project Symphony!
02/02 WCPE Expands Offerings to Mandarin Speaking Audience!
01/29 WCPE: Three Decades of Great Classical Music!
01/29 Violist displays full palette of colours at a remarkable recital
01/27 Cleveland Orchestra in Miami: A Photo Tour
01/22 Sinfonietta plans to help minority musicians
01/10 Gustavo Dudamel: Passing the Baton to the Next Wunderkind
01/08 Join the Concert Singers of Cary for "Voices of Light" Saturday, January 12
01/02 Measuring the merit of classical music composers
12/17 Eastern Music Festival Founder Dies in Switzerland
12/13 Barry Saunders: Piano plea hits a chord!
12/11 Another Movement of Musical Diplomacy
12/09 Amazing response to Jordan Masuca Pianos for Hope!
12/04 Piano holds key to hope
11/28 Universal classical music online without copy block
11/27 Opera singer Jessye Norman to give UNC commencement address
11/5 Brain 'closes eyes' to hear music
10/28 Gil Rose is reimagining the modern orchestra
10/12 Reinhard Keiser's The Fortunes of King Croesus - almost 300 years after it was first performed
10/11 The Best Listener in America
10/10 Chopin's French Piano Maker Stakes Survival on Great Grand
10/08 Paradigm shift for Chicago Classical music lovers...
10/03 WCPE Releases
“A Classical Bouquet”
Great Works from Across the Classical Music Spectrum
10/01 Sour Note: the best woods are becoming scarce.
9/27
Festival's next piano will be handled with care!
9/27 Internet is future of the Orchestra
9/23 North Carolina Opera succeeds at reaching out
9/23 Fringe Atlanta’s Most Excellent Debut
9/14 Classics for the masses
9/06 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian Tenor, Is Dead at 71
8/19 From Salzburg, a Mozart-a-thon
8/13 Rachel Barton Pine to be Featured on WCPE’s Show 'Preview!'
8/9 Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a showdown
8/9 Met Opera to Expand in Theaters Across Globe
7/30 National Symphony Orchestra's Season Preview Concert
7/30 Tacoma tries classical music to chase gangs from bus stops
7/18 Tenor Jerry Hadley Is Dead at 55
7/16 Celebrated tenor Jerry Hadley was taken off life support Monday
7/11 Report: Pavarotti doing well
7/11 The Stradivari of Ramadi - Soldier Creates Beautiful Instruments in the Field
7/3 Beverly Sills, All-American Diva, Is Dead at 78
6/29 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: Play for today
6/28 Beverly Sills Reported to Be Gravely Ill
6/28 Juilliard Launches Website for Manuscript Collection
6/27 Mark Morris Says Mozart Made Him Lose His Mind
6/27 'Grateful Dead Symphony' Released on CD
6/26 Musical route to crime-free life
6/26 Conductors in a scattershot era of recording
6/26 The World's Oldest Living Tenor Celebrates His 105th Birthday (And He's a Newlywed, No Less!)
6/25 One Marketing Agency May Have Found Secret to Attracting Young Audiences
6/24 Festival screens rare Elgar film
6/23 Medical biography dispels Beethoven myths
6/22 Woody Allen to Direct His First Opera - Puccini's Gianni Schicchi in Los Angeles
6/22 New York Philharmonic Receives $5 Million Gift to Support Parks Concerts
6/20 Cellist Peforms Atop Mt. Fuji
6/20 Peter Oundjan: Sound Conflict
6/19 Polish cleaner discovered to be brilliant concert pianist
6/19 Sickness Forces Helene Grimaud to End Recital Early
6/19 Unqualified criticism
6/18 ASK THE EXPERTS:
Why can an opera singer be heard over the much louder orchestra?
6/18 Singing salesman Paul Potts wins talent show
6/17 FIVE THINGS: About an orchestra librarian
6/15 Performances enhance culinary accompaniment
6/16 Podiums of London Welcome Newcomers
6/15 Performances enhance culinary accompaniment
6/15 Flights of fancy
6/15 The gay marriage of Figaro: Festival presents queer night
6/14 Dude, this music goes to a new level
6/14 Conductor Loses Passport - and Loses Gig
6/14 Buffalo Philharmonic Settles Anti-Discrimination Suit Brought by Oboist
6/14 New Edition of Bach's Complete Works Finished After Five Decades
6/14 Strauss Heirs Ordered to Share Royalties with Heirs of Hofmannsthal
6/11 Top London Violinist to Busk His Way Around the World
6/11 Guarneri Quartet to Retire in 2009
6/11 John Tavener: 'I had a dream vision'
6/11 Seattle Opera Builds a Singing Pig
6/10 Leon Fleisher: A Pianist for Whom Never Was Never an Option
6/10 The detective work is done. Let the music play.
6/8 Musicians allowed to take a bow
6/6 Return to Classical Was Good Business Move for Washington's WETA
6/6 Stolen Callas Gown Returned by Mail
6/6 Putting Tchaikowsky on the couch
6/6 Welser-Most named music director of Vienna State Opera
6/5 Ophthalmologist Wins Van Cliburn Competition for Amateur Pianists
6/5 Canada Denies Winnie Mandela Visa to Attend New Opera About Her Life
6/5 La Scala Philharmonic to Close U.S. Tour with Concert Near Ground Zero
6/5 'Naganomania' Attacts New Listeners to Montreal Symphony
6/4 Music and conflict
6/4 Conductor Robert King jailed for groping youths
6/3 Pittsburgh to Drop 'Amusement Tax' on Non-Profit Arts Groups
6/3 The Best Buildings You'll Ever Hear
6/3 Concert Hall? How About Music Museum?
6/3 Eschenbach's sour notes on bosses risks his finale
6/3 Play marks 25th anniversary of Gould's death with recreation of final night
6/2 Questions Are Raised About Firing of Soprano
6/2 Company fires soprano from production at 11th hour -- director defends decision
6/2 Diary of Nazi survivor turned into an opera
6/1 San Francisco Opera to Introduce High-Definition Video in Opera House
5/31 Costume Worn by Maria Callas Stolen from Athens Exhibition
5/31 ArkivMusic Begins Selling Out of Print Recordings, Burned to Order on CD
5/31 Royal Opera Steps Into New Act: DVD Maker
5/31 Peter Oundjian: Maestro passes the baton
5/31 Paavo Järvi to Succeed Christoph Eschenbach at Helm of Orchestre de Paris
5/30 The boy who would be Wagner
5/30 More than a stage
5/30 Opera on the Jumbotron
5/29 Pianist Stephen Hough Barred from Playing Concert in Vietnam
5/29 Performances at Cleveland Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Are Literal Showstoppers
5/29 The Eastern Enlightenment: Carnegie Hosts Concert of Rediscovered Music from Catherine the Great's Court
5/29 Scientists Develop Software to Turn DNA Patterns Into Music
5/29 Stradivarius Violin Stolen From Vienna Apartment
5/28 Playing Cellphones
On Stage Has Ring Of Respectability
5/29 Roberto Alagna Cancels Another Opera Engagement (This Time in Advance)
5/28 Franz Schubert: The motivation behind the music
5/27 The afterlife of Brian
5/27 James Levine: Perpetual-Motion Maestro
5/26 Welser-Möst tries it again, twice, after concerto stops orchestra in its tracks
5/25 Photo Journal: 'Opera by Design' Opens at Gallery Met
5/25 Take me out to the...Opera?
5/25 Elgar: Right on the money
5/25 Elgar: Stand up for the maestro
5/24 Deborah Proctor: WCPE chief on Internet radio's possible demise
5/24 Mozart to put sharks in the mood
5/24 Newly discovered Mendelssohn sold at Sotheby's
5/24 Danish filmmaker's 'Dancer in the Dark' to be made into opera
5/23 Orchestra still listening to trombone candidates
5/23 Show goes on for injured soprano
5/22 Carnegie Hall to Expand Into Studio Towers and Renovate Backstage Areas
5/22 William Orbit: 'People will see my heart and soul'
5/22 Maestro, is that a DJ with your orchestra?
5/22 Chicago's New Period-Instrument Orchestra Debuts May 22-24
5/22 Husband of Peter Maxwell Davies's Manager Arrested in Connection with Disappearance of £500,000
5/21 Conductor made 'childhood misery'
5/20 Making the Maestro Collaborator in Chief
5/19 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: The maverick Master of the Queen's Music
5/19 'I put up with noisy opera-goers'
5/18 Metropolitan Opera Enjoys First Ticket Sales Increase in Six Years
5/18 Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas Meets 'Godfather of Soul'
5/18 Prince of Wales commissions piano concerto in memory of Queen Mother
5/17 Met Opera to Expand Simulcasts in Theaters
5/17 Walt Disney World Co. Gives $12.5 Million for Performing Arts Center in Orlando
5/16 Salerno-Sonnenberg and McDermott Play Complete Brahms Sonatas at Free for All at Town Hall May 20
5/16 Cleveland Orchestra Violist Announces Trans-USA Fundraising Bicycle Ride
5/16 Stephen Hough: Piano genius with mass appeal
5/15 Boston Pops Uses YouTube for POPSearch Competition
5/15 Grateful Dead get classical treatment
5/15 Dismissed Oboist Brings Anti-Gay Discrimination Case Against Buffalo Philharmonic
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