In late May the Seattle Symphony launched the public phase of its $20 million Amplify campaign to enhance the public spaces of Benaroya Hall. Opened in downtown Seattle in 1998, the city-owned venue occupies an entire city block and houses two … » Read

Following their graduation from the New England Conservatory in 2019, violinist Alyssa Wang and clarinetist Nicholas Brown decided to found an orchestra. This summer the Boston Festival Orchestra (BFO) will celebrate its fifth anniversary. Their … » Read

Jon Suder, a Fort Worth attorney, recently did something that dwindling numbers of Americans are doing: He bought a new acoustic piano—one of Steinway’s Spiro models . There was a time when such a purchase was unremarkable. In 1909, … » Read

Reports filtering out from inside the Kennedy Center claim that subscription sales for the coming season’s programming are lagging behind last year’s by about 36 percent, or $1.6 million. For the same length of time in 2024—ten … » Read

WGBH, the Boston-based public radio and television station responsible for classical radio and podcast programming such as Boston Symphony Orchestra and Pops concerts,  Antiques Roadshow , Frontline , and Great Performances , has laid off 45 … » Read

On May 30 PBS filed a federal lawsuit requesting that a court block an executive order signed by Donald Trump four weeks earlier that would cut off funding to public media. The president’s action appears to supersede legislation introduced … » Read

DETROIT (AP)—As Detroit Opera officials made plans last fall to bring a production based on the Central Park Five to their 2025 lineup, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump loomed large and just off stage. The opera puts to music the … » Read

A $60 million gift from the Farmer Family Foundation, the largest philanthropic commitment to the arts in recent Cincinnati history, guarantees that the new entertainment venue being built by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and Music and … » Read

The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park is planning a major renovation of its campus in advance of its 50 th anniversary, and the nation’s 250 th , in the summer of 2026. Thus far the center has raised … » Read

Today in Boston, and next week in New York, the first-ever collaboration between Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society and the New York City-based collective ChamberQUEER will present BaroQUEER: Historically Informed , a concert that in the … » Read