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Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake: mutations, violins and homosexuality
Swan Lake: Vladimir Jurowski’s online concert with the LPO, cut and pasting through the ages, and Tchaikovsky’s adored violinist Iosif Kotek.
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La Scala’s Makhar Vaziev: It’s our first time in Oman, but we really hope it isn’t our last”
When Makhar Vaziev, the artistic director of Milan‘s Scala Ballet, first received an invitation for the company to perform at a new opera house in Muscat, he admits he drew a blank. Honestly, when we received the invitation from Oman, we weren’t sure what to do because we really didn’t know anything about the place….
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The musical marathon of the 2012 Olympics: recording 205 national anthems
Every day this week the 205 national anthems needed for the 2012 Olympics are being recorded in Abbey Road Studios by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of the composer Philip Sheppard. The statistics of this event are, in their way, as impressive as any Olympic one: 205 anthems; 15,000 sheets of music; 51…
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