Prince of Wales at the Birmingham Royal Ballet’s 20th Anniversary.

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AUDIENCES at tomorrow night’s Glasgow performance of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony will hear a very different piece from Edinburgh audiences at the Usher Hall on Friday. To

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Singer Charlotte Church agrees a £2m deal with a music investment company to finance her next record.

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When you sing along to the radio, is your brain processing the words and music separately or as one’

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A trumpet which was played at dances at Balmoral Castle in the 1940s and 1950s fails to sell at auction.

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Madness and Prodigy added to festival line-up

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The French navy has captured 35 suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia in what French officials are hailing as the most successful mission since the European Union began monitoring the seas in 2008.

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Why do models insist on branching out to be acrtors or clothes designers’ And what’s with all the striped scarves on News at Ten’ What on earth are we to make of Kate Moss’s upcoming ballet debut’ Sharon, by email We are to assume that the end is nigh, Sharon. But I’m not sure if news that Kate is to appear in a ballet movie with Mikhail Baryshnikov is more or less depressing than the fact that …

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PageBreak — OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA Zeffirelli’s beloved production of Puccini’s “La Bohème,” with Anna Netrebko, in opulent voice, and Piotr Beczała, a tenor with a broad, healthy sound who is fast becoming a house favorite, and a cast that includes . . .

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BBC Sound of 2010 winner Ellie Goulding goes straight to the top of the album chart with her debut release Lights.

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A SCOTTISH ballet teacher allegedly abducted a male pupil and had sex with him during a three-month affair.

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For his current extended visit to New York, the conductor Riccardo Muti is on a mission, it would seem, to reclaim neglected works.

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This summer’s V Festival has sold out in record time with tickets snapped up in just 90 minutes.

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Meet the new kids on the rock… a series of famous album covers have been recreated swapping the original stars for children.

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SCO CL@SIX – BAROQUE MASTERS **** ST CUTHBERT’S PARISH CHURCH, EDINBURGH

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Cairo An Egyptian appeals court has ordered a retrial of the property tycoon and politician Hesham Talaat Moustafa.

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Doves have been added to the line-up of this year’s V Festival. The Mancunian trio – who released fourth album Kingdom Of Rust last year – will play the 4 Music stage at the two-site event in August.

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WITHOUT audiences, the performing arts world would simply not exist. The equation is one based on spiritual presence as well as the plain reality that “bums-on-seats

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During its tours, the Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra endures conditions more typical for a low-level minor league baseball team than a group of highly trained classical musicians.

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American Ballet Theater says it will skip its regular two weeks of performances next fall and use the time to rehearse its new “Nutcracker” production.

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HE CAME down the aircraft steps in the uniform of a sergeant but was greeted as the King.

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An album by US producer Danger Mouse will finally see the light of day this year, after its original release was scuppered by a legal wrangle with EMI.

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Singer Cheryl Cole, who last week announced her split from husband Ashley Cole, has been lined up to perform solo at this year’s V Festival.

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CD sales still heading south, though Universal Music, the world’s biggest record label, said digital revenues grew eight per cent in 2009, even though revenue was €4.6bn, 6.2 per cent down on 2008.… What is your recession sales strategy’

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Mr. Coutaz founded the respected independent classical record label Harmonia Mundi and ran it for five decades.

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So what was it that captured Southern California’s dance buffs recently — other than the Olympian figure skaters’ Try a sub rosa contest between women in tulle tutus and men as fierce fugitives.

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As New York City Ballet’s winter season ended, I found myself forgetting the one performance I did see of this season’s only “Liebeslieder” cast but pining to have seen one particular cast change in “Cortège.”

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PageBreak — OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA Instead of capitalizing on the considerable strengths of Verdi’s rough-hewn half-masterpiece “Attila”—strong central characters, crowd scenes crackling with patriotic fervor—the Met has opted for a musclebound attempt at what the director, Pierre Audi, calls a . . .

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Why is Jimi Hendrix like a menorah’ Well, that legendary ancient candleabra in the Holy Temple supposedly had only enough oil to burn for a…

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What’s Your Reaction’ The other day, I found myself rummaging through a closet, searching for my old viola. This wasn’t how I’d planned to spend the afternoon. I hadn’t given a thought to the instrument in years. I barely remembered where it was, much less how to play it.

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What’s Your Reaction’ The other day, I found myself rummaging through a closet, searching for my old viola. This wasn’t how I’d planned to spend the afternoon. I hadn’t given a thought to the instrument in years. I barely remembered where it was, much less how to play it.

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THE final tickets for Scotland’s biggest music festival sold out in less than 90 minutes yesterday.

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Tarkan, the Turkish pop star, was detained by police in a narcotics raid on Friday in Istanbul along with nine other people.

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Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon steps away from the ballet company he founded three years ago.

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The New York publisher and songwriter Aaron Schroeder was one of the key figures around the Brill Building in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a songwriter who preferred to collaborate with others, especially in improving the commerciality of a promising song. Several of his 300 published compositions were recorded by Elvis Presley, including the multi-million seller “It’s Now or Never” (1960). He …

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Barb Jungr – Jazz singer I must say that I haven’t found audience chatter a problem when I’ve been performing, but then what I do is closer to a recital than a rock concert and it’s a different kind of crowd. As a punter at other shows though, I’m really aware of how much noise there is, and what’s getting much worse is people texting. It makes me furious. Live music should be about people …

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The eloquent young Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski will lead the London Philharmonic in a program at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday.

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What’s Your Reaction’ Graceland is set to open “Elvis Presley: Fashion King,” an exhibit displaying Elvis’s everyday style, the New York Times reports . So what did The King wear offstage’

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SOME powerful American, British and Scandinavian players, including a trio of renowned saxophonists, converge on Aberdeen next month to mix it with top local talent as the Gra

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CHAMBER CONCERT WITH SCO ENSEMBLE *** QUEEN’S HALL, EDINBURGH

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Cheryl Cole previously said she was prepared to Fight For This Love when it came to now estranged husband Ashley Cole – but the lyrics of other songs on her debut solo album 3 Words give further insight into the sometimes strained relationship of the celebrity couple.

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If you want to know our online future, ask a musician Psst: want to know the future of cyberspace’ You could try asking a rock star. Why’ Well, some of them have turned out to be perceptive futurologists. Eight years ago, for example, David Bowie said this to a New York Times reporter: “I don’t even know why I would want to be on a label in a few years because I don’t think it’s going to work by …

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The historic Abbey Road studios, which played their part in famed recordings from Elgar to The Beatles, have been given listed building status.

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T In The Park have announced a large portion of the bands that will be heading north this summer. Kasabian , Muse and Eminem will be the three artists headlining the bash that takes place between July 9 and 11 at Balado , neat Kinross .

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JAZZ GERRY MULLIGAN All Star Groups – Three Classic Albums Plus * * * * *

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The legendary Abbey Road recording studios were saved yesterday after cash-strapped owners EMI pledged not to sell up.

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The Russian violinist Viktoria Mullova proved worthy of consideration during an uneven but fascinating account of Brahms’s Violin Concerto.

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PageBreak — OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA The Met may mount Zeffirelli’s circus-like production of “La Bohème” primarily for the tourist trade, but it sure doesn’t stint on casting. This revival features such star singers as Anna Netrebko, Nicole Cabell, Piotr Beczala, and . . .

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David Bowie’s son Duncan Jones paid tribute to his father after clinching a Bafta for his low-budget sci-fi film Moon.

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Modern classical music is so widely disliked by audiences because the human brain struggles to find patterns it needs to understand the compositions as music.

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