The Palisades fire in Los Angeles has destroyed the building and all its contents of Belmont Music Publishers. “We have lost our full inventory of sales and rental materials,” reads a notice on the company website. “We hope that … » Read

The impending closure of the Macy’s department store housed in the Wanamaker Building in central city Philadelphia poses a threat to the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ. An artifact of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, the instrument, one … » Read

On Jan. 16 the San Francisco Symphony will premiere After the Fall , a new piano concerto by John Adams. Like the 77-year-old composer’s previous two keyboard concertos, written for Emanual Ax ( Century Rolls ) and Yuja Wang ( Must the … » Read

Manhattan School of Music has responded to claims issued in a press release last week by ARTS-MSM, Local 6498 of the Teachers’ Union. The union has authorized a strike by the precollege faculty, whose last contract expired in August 31 and … » Read

Precollege faculty at Manhattan School of Music have voted to strike “if negotiations continue to stagnate.” As members of ARTS-MSM, Local 6498 of New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), they state in a press release that they have … » Read

The Argus Quartet has two new members in violinist Sam Parrini and cellist Drake Driscoll, replacing violinist Clara Kim, a founder of the group in 2013, and cellist Mariel Roberts. Parrini is a Juilliard grad and, with Driscoll, a teaching … » Read

Wise Music Group (WMG), a major publisher of classical music whose holdings include G. Schirmer. Chester Music, and Edition Peters, has sold its music education division to private equity firm Achieve Partners. The concept is for WMG to invest … » Read

Entering her third year as director of the Edinburgh International Festival, Nicola Benedetti has sounded an alarm about the health of the ionic celebration and Scotland’s creative arts scene in general due to continued funding cuts. … » Read

On Jan. 10 and 11, when Weicheng Zhao performs Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony with the San Diego Symphony (SDS), the Robert-Morton Theatre Organ will have its own coming-out party in the renovated Jacobs Music Center. The two concerts … » Read

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has cancelled concerts for this weekend, due to the winds and wildfires in the area. The Schumann and Brahms performances, January 9-12, conducted by Louis Langrée, will not be rescheduled. Refunds are … » Read