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Classical music news. Paraorchestra — A Bristol-based orchestra is to perform at Manchester's Royal Northern College of Music in the UK and at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Republic of Ireland
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Resounding Echoes by Robert McCarney — The Be All and End All
(updated 13 October 2024)
Twenty-five years ago today
Pianos and Pianists - Alfred Cortot on Chopin's 'secret being' (published 15 October 1999)
Twenty years ago today
Ask Alice — Instructions for dealing with a very tricky problem, prepared by classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh (published 15 October 2004)
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844); Dag Wirén (1905); Cole Porter (1964); Franz Reizenstein (1968); Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1988); Hossein Dehlavi (2019)
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