Banjo player Béla Fleck was to have performed his own arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the National Symphony Orchestra next month. But, like many before him, he has withdrawn due to the MAGA stronghold at the Center, … » Read

From July 10 to August 15, Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival (GPMF) will present ten weeks’ worth of concerts at Millennium Park under the leadership of Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero . All concerts are … » Read

Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s largest music-based entertainment company, has reached outside the company to appoint James Steven as its new executive vice president & chief communications officer. As of January 26, his new … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump may have his name on the building, but it’s still the Kennedy Center to Congress. A bipartisan spending package released Monday by House Speaker Mike Johnson includes $32 million for operating … » Read

Semyon Bychkov will succeed Gustavo Dudamel as music director of the Paris Opera starting in August 2028, the company’s General Director Alexander Neef said Tuesday. The 73-year-old Bychkov agreed to a four-year contract and will conduct … » Read

Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR, and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created … » Read

The San Antonio Philharmonic is entangled in a number of lawsuits that make its continued cancellation of concerts look benign. Not only does it owe refunds to ticket holders, it owes $750,000 to the Scottish Rite, having failed to make the … » Read

Bruce Crawford, whose leadership in many guises steered The Metropolitan Opera through the last quarter of the 20 th century, died on December 30. He was 97. Crawford entered the advertising business in 1956, and over the next 30 years rose to … » Read

The shock and awe approach to governance that has characterized the first year of the second DT administration has left many critics anxiously looking for public officials willing to push back. Those distressed by the gutting and recent … » Read

In December, László Krasznahorkai became only the second Hungarian writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature; Imre Kertész was the first, in 2002. Although the 71-year-old author is critical of the right-wing Hungarian … » Read