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Comedy music duo TwoSet Violin announce the end of their partnership

Australian violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen will no longer perform as TwoSet Violin after 11 years together
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'A beautiful beating heart, even when it was filthy': author Lemony Snicket on his musical inspirations

The author of A Series of Unfortunate Events shares the music that has shaped his life and career
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The opera with live sex and body piercing that has audiences vomiting in the aisles

The opera 'Sancta', by the Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger, features unsimulated sex, live piercing, and plenty of fake and real blood
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Kung fu to breakdancing: six professional musicians share tips for optimising your health and wellbeing

How do musicians hone their minds and bodies? We find out why today’s leading performers are dedicating more time to their wellbeing in order to play better
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From Madame Butterfly to Mamma Mia! How operas gave birth to stage musicals

Were Rodgers & Hammerstein the Puccini of the mid-20th century? If so, where do operas end and musicals begin? James Inverne explores the classical origins of today’s musicals…
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How the golden age of rail travel transformed American classical music forever

May 10 1869 was a big date: the completion of America’s First Transcontinental Railroad. Brian Wise describes how music thrived in the golden age of train travel
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BBC Young Musician names 2024 finalists

The much-loved biennial search for the UK’s most promising classical music performers has announced its three 2024 finalists
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: folk music, the English countryside, and moments of transcendent beauty

Terry Blain explores the life, times and works of Ralph Vaughan Williams - the grand old man of British music
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'It's given me a laser focus' - theatre composer Adrian Sutton on his terminal diagnosis

Facing a terminal illness has given award-winning theatre composer Adrian Sutton a sharp new impetus, he tells Michael Beek
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