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- The Listening Machine launches as part of The Space
Britten Sinfonia musicians have recorded samples whose playing is dictated by Twitter - LIVE REVIEW: Dean/Mendelssohn/Bruckner, Northern Sinfonia, Sage Gatesead
Programme of slight oddities plays to orchestra's strengths - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau dies aged 86
German baritone, one of the greats of his age, retired in 1993 - Halsey set to become LSO and LSC chorus director
Job post will involve coordinating all choral work for the orchestra and chorus - Catalyst Arts fund: music organisations to invest in development
Seed funds represent ‘future of greater financial independence’ for smaller arts groups
Contents for Classical Music

Rio report: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado São Paulo coming to the Proms
- COME AND JOIN US
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is shaking things up with a new ad campaign
FEATURES
- MUSIC FOR THE ROYALS
In diamond jubilee year, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies talks about the realities of being Master of the Queen’s Music
- RIO CON BRIO
As the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado São Paulo becomes the first Brazilian orchestra to play at the Proms, Robert Turnbull looks at the turbulent state of the country’s music scene
- FESTIVE QUARTET
Four festivals for the diary
- BEST OF BRITISH
Why pianist Mark Bebbington is flying the flag at this year’s Bledington Festival
FESTIVALS AND THE WORLD
Sixty years of the European Festivals Association
FORGIVE ME WHILE I YAWN
Does CD artwork have to be so boring?
Editorial
Keith Clarke - editor
From the current issue of Classical Music
In these dark and gloomy days, with financial ruin all about, non-stop rain falling everywhere except into the reservoirs, and the transport system heading for monumental breakdown as the Olympics near, how grateful we must be for those who set out to bring us a little cheer. ...
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