Stolen Gadda violin turns up on eBay
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Travel violin blown up in terror alert
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Orchestra mimed at Olympics
Sydney Symphony Orchestra played to a tape at opening ceremony
Orlando Cole turns 100
The Curtis Quartet cellist and pedagogue celebrates his centenary
BBC7 broadcasts The Lost Stradivarius
The BBC has made available the dramatisation of an 1895 ghost story about the discovery of a Stradivari
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September 2008
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Ariane Todes got carried away at last night's Prom
It always happens. In June, I mark the many BBC Proms concerts I want to go to, and then before I know it, it’s September. Summer is over, there are o...
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Aug 29
Ariane Todes tries a Baroque bow and the wobble board at the ESTA conference
Last week I popped into the summer conference of the European String Teachers’ Association, at Dean Close School in Cheltenham. It was a great chan...
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Aug 21
In her second blog entry, Clio Tilton is reminded how tiring orchestral tours are
The last two days have been busy – lots of travelling for our first two concerts. The first was in Berlin at the Konzerthaus as part of the Young Euro...
Updated at 15:14
Aug 14
The editor, Ariane Todes, tries to make friends with the portaloos at the Big Chill Festival, and searches in vain for the classical music
At the ripe old age of [ahem] I’ve just been to my first non-classical music festival, The Big Chill, in Eastnor, Herefordshire. I’ll spare the detail...
Updated at 13:21
Aug 5
In Clio Tilton's first blog from the Moritzburg Festival Academy, she and her fellow musicians decide on a common language
The Moritzburg Festival Academy kicked off with a friendly welcome from the director, cellist Jan Vogler. Crowding into the Eisenberger Hof Hotel rest...
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Aug 5