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    When they were young: Joshua Bell

    2013-06-08T00:00:00Z

    The 14-year-old impresses in Tchaikovsky

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    UK violinist Thomas Gould does a Joshua Bell busk

    2013-02-08T00:00:00Z

    British violinist Thomas Gould went busking at Westminster Tube station on Wednesday, in a recreation of the famous Joshua Bell subway experiment that was arranged by the Washington Post in 2007. Gould, the concertmaster of the Aurora Orchestra and the associate concertmaster of the Britten Sinfonia, recreated the stunt for ...

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    Burglar posing as violinist steals Joshua Bell's watch in Spain

    2012-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Joshua Bell's hotel room in Zaragoza, Spain, was burgled as the violinist was giving a concert, reports the Los Angeles Times. A thief posing as Bell apparently convinced hotel staff not only to give him a key to Bell's room, but also to open the room's safe. The thief then ...

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    Violinist Joshua Bell joins Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    2011-05-26T00:00:00Z

    The American violinist Joshua Bell has been appointed music director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which began life in 1958. He is the only musician to have held the title apart from its founder, Neville Marriner, who stepped down five years ago and becomes the group’s ...

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    Violinist Joshua Bell joins Brazil boycott

    2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

    Joshua Bell is the latest high-profile soloist to boycott the Brazilian orchestra that sacked nearly half its musicians in a dispute over reauditions. The violinist was due to perform with the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira (OSB) and its conductor Roberto Minczuk on 27 August, but has cancelled his appearance. Bell joins ...

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    Violinist Joshua Bell to give benefit concert in Bloomington, Indiana

    2010-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Violinist Joshua Bell will give a benefit concert to help children's music education in the city where he grew up. Proceeds from his 13 April recital in Bloomington, Indiana, with British pianist Sam Haywood will support elementary-school string programmes, which are under threat amid a public school funding crisis in ...

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    Editor's blog: Joshua Bell's looking at me!

    2008-09-18T00:00:00Z

    The new Joshua Bell Vivaldi Four Seasons recording has just come into the office and of course it sounds fantastic – full of the requisite energy and poetry. But with the CD comes a fold-out calendar featuring Bell looking tousled and sultry in what looks like his Baroque ...