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Boston Symphony oboist beats cancer with daughter’s help
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Like many young music students in the present circumstances, pianist and composer Brendan Moir faced doing his final recital to a very limited audience. So,…
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We Know What You Did During Lockdown – Internet privacy Click here to watch: Free Written by playwright James Graham and performed by Lydia West and Arthur Darvill, it examines…
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The world famous London concert hall celebrates its 120th birthday today. Its artistic director picks 12 of the hall’s greatest – and most unexpected –…
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Note that this boxed set is not identical to Brilliant Classics’ 2010 complete Rachmaninov piano music edition issued in the label’s deleted Piano Library series.…
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Here’s the French ensemble Tactus—which employs a fancy font for its corporate image that for the longest time had me read and think “Ensemble Cactus”.…
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