A Tightening of Belts for Symphony Players
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General trends have emerged in the new contracts for four of the nation's largest orchestras: an early holdback on salaries, a freeze on pensions, and more concerts.
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In the age of the short attention span, classical music matters more than ever.
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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has hired a new music director, who will begin a four-year contract in September 2008.
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The plans for welcoming maestro James Levine to Boston and to its symphony orchestra began, in some ways, even before he was named to the prestigious musical director&#39;s position.
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Conducting the Tehran Symphony Orchestra requires some adjustments. Money is scarce. The female musicians wear headscarves. An old favorite such as Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 could mean criticism from conservative quarters.
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It's a bit disorienting: slip on a set of headphones, turn up the volume and, while you move about the room, the music stays put &#151; as if coming out of five speakers stuck on a wall.
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Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle has attacked the German capital's decision to cut arts funding.
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Philadelphia Orchestra musicians would play four Sunday concerts and agree to changes in their pension and health care plans under a tentative settlement of a labor dispute that earlier threatened to delay the start of their season.
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Reformists, most from within the ranks, seek to reduce the size and influence of the political party.
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When the Kirov Opera ends its residency at the Lincoln Center Festival tonight, Valery Gergiev will have conducted his company in two overlapping cycles of Wagnerâs âRing des Nibelungenâ over nine days.
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The Metropolitan Operaâs new strategy of plugging sudden holes in its casts with big names has its beneficiaries.
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What has changed about classical music is not how much the tradition means to its devotees, but how little it means to everyone else.
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A number of performers are questioning the traditional expectations of chamber music, causing mixed reactions among the purists and the newcomers.
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Busy adjusting to their new world-class instruments, the string section of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra aren't talking about bad publicity.
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He is retiring from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, where he blew a mellow horn, but Russian soldiers once fired at a photograph of this veteran musician.
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Musicians have walked out of what they called one-sided contract talks with Philadelphia Orchestra officials, increasing the likelihood of a strike that could echo the 1996 walkout that stretched on for nine weeks.
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James Levine led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a rousing performance of Tchaikovskyâs Fourth Symphony.