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Cristian Măcelaru to become music director of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 2025-26

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The 44-year-old will be music director designate in the 2024-25 season and then will have a four-year term.


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Conductor Andrew Davis, who headed Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on 3 continents, dies

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Davis made his Lyric Opera debut in 1987 and led about 700 performances of 62 operas by 22 composers.


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Brain scans of Philly jazz musicians reveal secrets to reaching creative flow

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Jazz improvisation is a favorite vehicle for studies — it is a measurable real-world task that allows for divergent thinking.


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Italy marks 80th anniversary of WWII-era massacre in Rome with a concert honoring the dead

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Riccardo Muti conducted the Italian premiere of William Schuman’s Ninth Symphony, which the composer wrote after visiting the site of a 1944 massacre in Rome.


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Acclaimed Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini dies at age 82

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“I grew up in a house with art and artists,” Pollini said in an interview. “Old works and modern works coexisted together as part of life.”


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In one Ukrainian city, ballet in a bomb shelter is an escape from the horrors of war

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Practicing in a bomb shelter means the girls can keeping dancing through the almost hourly air raid alerts.


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Metropolitan Opera presents semi-staged ‘Turandot’ after stage malfunction

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Franco Zeffirelli’s staging premiered in 1987 and is among the most lavish sets in Met history, recreating an imperial throne room with 199 people on stage.


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Byron Janis, renowned American classical pianist who overcame debilitating arthritis, dies at 95

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In 1960, Janis was selected as the first musician to tour the then-USSR as part of a cultural exchange program organized by the U.S. State Department.


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Esa-Pekka Salonen to leave San Francisco Symphony, citing dispute with orchestra’s board

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“I do not share the same goals for the future of the institution as the board of governors does,” Salonen said in a statement.


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Chopin lovers can’t meet their hero, but this pianist got to do the next best thing

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“These period pianos, they all have the ability to play as soft as possible and I think still there’s something there, there is still a core inside.”