The Raise Your Voice charity is putting the lie to the common perception that for people with dementia, everything is finished. “What our excitement is embedded in,” Hazel Gaydon, the charity’s events manager tells The Guardian … » Read

This year’s Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition has gone to Australian composer Liza Lim for her piece A Sutured World, premiered last October by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO)/Musica Viva. The BRSO, which also recorded the … » Read

The San Antonio Philharmonic, which a bit more than a year ago signed a much- ballyhooed agreement with the Scottish Rite fraternal order to take an ownership stake in its downtown building as a permanent home, was asked to exit the building by … » Read

German conductor Christian Blex ,  winner of the 2025 Karajan Young Conductors Award at the Salzburg Festival, is to be principal guest conductor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra (MSO) for three seasons, starting next September. Blex, … » Read

CHICAGO-- The Perfect Tuba , the latest book by veteran journalist Sam Quinones, is the perfect book for those days when the weight of the world makes it hard to get out of bed. A few years ago, Quinones was feeling that weight. As a reporter for … » Read

A presumably well-intentioned tribute to the late tenor Luciano Pavarotti in Pesaro, a coastal city in the Marche region of Italy where he had a home, has left his widow Nicoletta Mantovani and family members “disappointed, angry and … » Read

There appears to be a cross-continent desire to play as many pianos in one space simultaneously as possible. If composer Georg Frederick Haas’s call for 50 in his 11,000 strings (performed last fall at the Armory) , seemed excessive, a … » Read

The success of Fedora at the Metropolitan Opera two years ago with Sonya Yoncheva and Piotr Beczala made the prospect of another opera by Umberto Giordano with the same pairing a tempting one, and not just because of their star power. Fedora , … » Read

The L.A. Philharmonic has secured additional funds that will enable the continuation of the YOLA program in East Los Angeles at the Torres site for the remainder of the school year. The orchestra had recently announced that rising costs in … » Read

German-Colombian conductor Anna Handler is having a banner year. Having recently made her subscription debut with the Boston Symphony, of which she is assistant conductor, she started a new job this fall as Kappelmeister of the Deutsche Oper … » Read