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KenCen Prez Calls Out Les Miz Boycotters

May 9, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
The Trump-installed CEO of Kennedy Center is starting his own blacklist. The first names on it will be the ten or so cast members in the Center's run of Les Misérables who have refused to perform at the June 11 gala celebrating Trump's … » Read
 

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Rattle, LSO Bring Mr. Broucek to Life

May 9, 2025 | Clive Paget, Musical America
LONDON— The Excursions of Mr. Broucek has long been the sleeper among Janácek’s mature stage works, so it was heartening to see the London Symphony Orchestra include it as part of their ongoing series of the composer’s … » Read
 

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Storied Opera Fest Marks 75th Anniversary with a New Theater

May 9, 2025 |
Sarah Shay, Musical America
Opera in the Ozarks, the music festival and opera training program based in Eureka Springs, AR, celebrates its 75 th anniversary this summer. Three mainstage opera productions and a host of musical offerings throughout northwest Arkansas are on … » Read
 

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At Carnegie: Giulio Cesare,
by the Experts

May 9, 2025 | George Loomis, Musical America
The annual semi-staging of a Handel opera by conductor Harry Bicket and the London-based English Concert is a valued Carnegie Hall tradition dating from 2013. Giulio Cesare, on May 4, was the latest installment, one of the composer’s most … » Read
 

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Juilliard Names New Dance Dean

May 9, 2025 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
The Juilliard School has selected Melissa Toogood as the new dean and director of its dance division, beginning July 1. She succeeds Alicia Graf Mack, who is to become the artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Toogood, who … » Read
 

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Reimagined Treemonisha Triumphs

May 8, 2025 | Hannah Edgar, Musical America
CHICAGO— Nearly 300 miles southwest of Chicago, in St. Louis, stands the only surviving house in which we know, beyond a doubt, Scott Joplin lived. The rest of the ragtime pioneer’s former homes have been razed; this one narrowly … » Read
 

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Public Media Pushes Back:
'We Will Get Loud'

May 8, 2025 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
Donald Trump’s allegations that liberal bias in news reporting justify his executive order eliminating federal funding to NPR and PBS are generating considerable pushback from within the public media universe. LaFontaine E. Oliver, … » Read
 

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Kanneh-Mason On Confronting Racism

May 8, 2025 | Anthony Brown, Musical America
Nine years ago, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason won the BBC Young Musician Award, launching a career that has taken him to concert halls around the world and provided the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play before millions of viewers at the 2018 … » Read
 

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Orchestral Feats & Feasts at the 2025 Aix Easter Festival, Part I

May 8, 2025 | Mark Valencia, Musical America
The two annual festivals of Aix-en-Provence—one for concerts, the other for operas—have no endeavours in common beyond the city whose name they share. Nevertheless, when word of the sudden passing of Pierre Audi , artistic director of … » Read
 

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New Music Director in Jackson, TN

May 8, 2025 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
The Jackson Symphony, located in western Tennessee, has selected Paul Haas as its new music director beginning with the start of the 2025-26 season. He succeeds Paul Shannon, in the post for a decade. Haas, a graduate of Yale University and The … » Read
 
 

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