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Stolen Gadda violin turns up on eBay

Muncie violinist reunited with instrument after 24 years

Travel violin blown up in terror alert

'Suspicious device' exploded by bomb squad in New York State

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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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...

Updated at 11:21

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...

Updated at 10:46

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...

Updated at 13:14

Aug 5