The Cincinnati Opera and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) reached a three-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA), ratified on March 3 by the union’s board of governors. The contract, retroactive to January 1, 2025, extends … » Read

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced its 2025-26 season, Gustavo Dudamel’s 17 th and last as music and artistic director. The menu includes 25 commissioned works, including 20 world premieres and three U.S. premieres. Following the … » Read

The San Francisco Symphony (SFS) and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) have “paused” the five-year-old Emerging Black Composers Project (EBCP) in response to a memo from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of … » Read

The upcoming season for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) combines its traditional quality programming with a new partnership with the Colburn School. Since it was founded in 1968, LACO has performed in several different venues, including … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—The megahit Broadway musical Hamilton is pulling out of plans to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., next year, citing Trump’s shakeup of the art institution’s … » Read

The 2025-26 Chicago Symphony Orchestra season has its immediate past and future music directors, Riccardo Muti and Klaus Mäkelä, leading four programs each in Chicago, with the former also touring seven U.S. cities with the band and the … » Read

The Aizuri Quartet—violinists Miho Saegusa and Emma Frucht, violist Brian Hong, and cellist Caleb van der Swaagh—has announced it will disband at the end of April after 13 years together. Its final recital, scheduled for April 25, … » Read

The 2025-26 season of the Louisville Orchestra (LO) offers an impressive slate of classical concerts, several of which will include world premieres. Music Director Teddy Abrams is never far from the stage, save for two weeks in September, when he … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will increase its giving over the next two years in response to what it calls a “crisis” prompted by the Trump administration’s freeze on federal foreign aid … » Read

Editor's note: Law & Disorder, Performing Arts Division has long been a popular, if somewhat irregular, blog on Musical America. As of this posting, and due to the frequent and radical changes affecting the arts under the new administration, … » Read