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Ireland to Continue BIA Program

October 23, 2025 | Anthony Brown, Musical America
From 2022 to 2025, the Irish government ran a pilot program that provided a weekly stipend of €325 (£283) to 2,000 artists and creatives. Now the government has decided to make the program permanent. This decision is at odds with … » Read
 

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CMA Buys CelloBello

October 23, 2025 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
Chamber Music America, the national network for small ensemble professionals, has acquired CelloBello, a nonprofit that offers free and accessible music education resources to the cello and chamber music community. The acquisition of … » Read
 

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AFM Satisfied, Broadway Stays Lit

October 23, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
The Broadway musicians of Local 802 AFM and the producers of the Broadway League have reached an agreement, thereby avoiding a work stoppage by the former that could potentially have darkened most of Broadway. “United in solidarity, Local … » Read
 

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Concert Hall Takes Over Orchestra

October 23, 2025 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
In an unusual move, the Henry H. Stambaugh Auditorium Association has acquired the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra (YSO). The ensemble gave its first concerts there in 1929, and for the next four decades performed at Stambaugh. Then, from 1969 … » Read
 

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Mann Center Gets Highmarked

October 22, 2025 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park will henceforth be known as the Highmark Mann, in recognition of the Pittsburgh-based insurance company’s purchase of naming rights for an undisclosed sum. The … » Read
 

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Children's Picture Book as Opera

October 21, 2025 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
Since 2013, the San Francisco-based Opera Parallèle has produced six new operas through its Hands-on-Opera program. Each new production provides opportunities for various communities to serve as chorus members, young singers to gain … » Read
 

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Brooklyn Conservatory Breaks Ground on $16M Expansion

October 21, 2025 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (BKCM) has broken ground for a new Park Slope campus that will double its capacity to provide music therapy and education. The new 12,000-sq.-ft.-foot facility at One Prospect Park West will house 13 … » Read
 

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B'way Musicians Poised to Strike

October 21, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Broadway musicians of Local 802 AFM are rattling their collective sword, stating they will call an “immediate” strike if they don’t have a satisfactory contract agreement with the producers in the Broadway League by Thursday … » Read
 

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How Music Helps Alleviate Pain

October 20, 2025 | Christina Larson, Associated Press
SAN DIEGO (AP)—Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope, and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps patients manage pain … » Read
 

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Texas Music School Shutters, Stiffing Faculty

October 20, 2025 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
The sudden closure of Houston-based Vivaldi Music Academy on Oct. 16 has left dozens of its former teachers wondering if they would ever get paid. "[I'm owed] probably over $3,000," Rice University senior Sam Rachleff told Houston’s ABC13. … » Read
 
 

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