LONDON—If the opening concert of Multitudes , a ten-day multidisciplinary arts festival running at London’s Southbank Centre, was a seamless fusion of classical music and circus, the April 24 second night was a rather different kettle … » Read

Marin Alsop, in London preparing the world premiere of the orchestral version of Laura Karpman’s opera Balls about Billie Jean King’s 1973 tennis victory over Bobby Riggs, tells The Times (London) that she believes women conductors … » Read

The Kennedy Center is not only a performing arts venue of national and international repute; it is also a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy, likely the Oval Office’s most articulate advocate for the arts in our nation’s … » Read

After 44 years, the Alexander String Quartet has decided to disband. Long a fixture in San Francisco, it will offer its final performance there on May 4, after which it will head to the East Coast for a series of final concerts. Formed in 1981 in … » Read

The Juilliard School says it plans to raise $550 million and make the school tuition-free for all students. Fund-raising has begun but has a long way to go—$180 million has been pledged, most of it from the board of directors. The school … » Read

From July 18 through September 13 the 2025 BBC Proms will feature 86 concerts in London, Bradford, Belfast, Bristol, and Gateshead. Fifteen female conductors, a record number that represents a marked improvement from a decade ago , will ascend … » Read

Next season, Kent Nagano [pictured left] will assume the role of principal artistic partner with the Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma for a three-year term. “It only took one concert, last summer, to create a special bond between Maestro … » Read

The Wallace Foundation, a major funder of the arts ($40 million over the last six years), has named Jean S. Desravines to succeed Will Miller as president as of September. Miller, in the job 14 years, announced last June that he would be leaving … » Read

Under its new Executive Director and CEO Gary Ginstling, the Houston Symphony has tapped one of Ginstling’s former colleagues as its new chief development officer. Arriving from June after two years in a similar post at the Cape Town (SA) … » Read

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America (VOA) while a number of law suits by employees are adjudicated. On April 22, Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered the … » Read