ST. LOUIS—It’s not uncommon for orchestras to mark a milestone with a fanfare. On Sept. 26, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) opted for three. This orchestra has much to celebrate. It spent two seasons roving from local venue to … » Read

In a $106 million deal, Kuke Music Holding Limited, a Beijing-based music services platform, has bought a 70 percent controlling interest in Naxos Music Group, which encompasses about 17 labels and is one of the world’s largest independent … » Read

A dozen years ago, Ivan Hewett, The Daily Telegraph’ s chief music critic, caused a stir when he suggested that because the top American orchestras overpaid their musicians, several were threatened with bankruptcy. “All these years … » Read

There are very few places in the world where one can listen to a violin and a cello played alongside a Lakota drum and singers. In October, the Lakota Music Project will travel South Dakota for its Shared Vision Tour and give communities across … » Read

On Oct. 13, Oxford University will open The Stephen A. Schwarzman Center, a new £185m arts and humanities facility that will house the Institute for Ethics in AI, the Oxford Internet Institute, and the new Bodleian Humanities Library. Other … » Read

LOS ANGELES—Two weeks after he inaugurated his term as Music and Artistic Director-Designate of the New York Philharmonic on Sep. 11, Gustavo Dudamel  opened his final season as Music and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles … » Read

In many chamber settings, the viola tends to blend into the texture—which made Emma Wernig’s playing all the more striking when I first encountered her last August on opening weekend at Tippet Rise, the remote Montana arts center. … » Read

For the first time in the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s (VPO) 183-year history, its musicians voted to add a musician of East Asian descent.  Hanna Cho, a Korean-American violinist born in Seoul but raised and educated in the United … » Read

When NY Times Culture Editor Sia Michel moved the New York Times’s top performing arts critics off their respective beats (not to mention areas of expertise) in July, she said all would be reassigned. Jesse Green, former theater critic, … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge agreed Monday to temporarily suspend the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of jobs at the agency that oversees Voice of America, the government-funded broadcaster founded to counter … » Read