“Jazz On A Balcony” In Odesa Amid Russia's Invasion In Ukraine

Odesa missile strike halts balcony concert at beloved Ukrainian jazz club

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Double bassist Charles Mingus in 1960

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Joyce DiDonato and Bishop Ramsey CE School, London

Star mezzo Joyce DiDonato joins London school children for powerful environmental message, through music

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Joyce DiDonato

The XIII International Tchaikovsky Music Competition

Russia’s Tchaikovsky Competition expelled from the World Federation of International Music Competitions

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Alison Balsom reveals her Top 5 Trumpet Concertos of all time

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Britain’s Big Platinum Performance on Classic FM

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Yaroslav Korolev plays in the destroyed Palace of Labour

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Lizzo joined the cast of Saturday Night Live this weekend

Lizzo plays Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ on the flute in hilarious orchestra sketch

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Grammy Award-winning pianist Radu Lupu has died at the age of 76

Radu Lupu, Grammy-winning Romanian pianist, dies aged 76

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Harrison Birtwistle, ‘giant’ of contemporary classical music, dies aged 87

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‘The Lark Ascending’ tops the Classic FM Hall of Fame 2022 in Vaughan Williams’ 150th birthday year

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Russian pianist, Alexei Lubimov, defied Moscow authorities by continuing to play

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Film composer John Williams crowned Best Classical Artist at The Global Awards 2022

Legendary composer John Williams crowned Best Classical Artist at The Global Awards 2022

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Nikolay Zvyagintsev was the orchestral pianist for the Donetsk Philharmonic

Musicians of Ukrainian orchestra mourn their pianist, killed in the battle for Mariupol

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A purple martin; these birds stay in Nashville for two months during the summer, before migrating south

US concert hall to chop down trees to combat threat from thousands of purple birds

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The 12th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition has excluded Russian competitors

Sibelius violin competition bans Russian participants ‘in order to protect other competitors’

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Classic FM Live with Viking at the Royal Albert Hall

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