The Israeli double bassist Avishai Cohen, dropped earlier this week by a Warsaw festival for performing in Moscow, has now been cancelled on July 13-14 at the Walden Festival in Brussels.
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The minimum wage for tutti players in BBC orchestras has risen to £41,104 after players voted by a 4-1 margin to accept a new deal. Salaries will rise between 2.3 and 2.8 percent. Thias may […]
Works by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were played at the first symphonic concert since the fall of the Assad regime. The conductor was the Syrian-Armenian Missak Baghboudarian. In the audience was health minister Maher al-Sharaa, brother of […]
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