Less than three weeks after threatening legal action against a young violinist for breaching a confidentiality agreement, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) executed a complete about face. On Jan. 6, the VSO issued a full-throated public … » Read

The Washington National Opera, facing declining ticket sales in its Kennedy Center home since DT took it over last February, will exit the venue, a move it  hinted at several months ago. WNO has secured new leases elsewhere but so far … » Read

In a move to update its image, the Celebrity Series of Boston today launches a new moniker, Vivo Performing Arts. With repeated assurances that the 87-year-old presenter would maintain a sterling artistic level, the announcement claims the new … » Read

From May 15 to 24, the Cleveland Orchestra’s fourth edition of the annual Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival will explore the theme of Courage. Composer/jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard [pictured] will curate, and the focal point is … » Read

From July 10 to August 15, Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival (GPMF) will present ten weeks’ worth of concerts at Millennium Park under the leadership of Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero . All concerts are … » Read

The shock and awe approach to governance that has characterized the first year of the second DT administration has left many critics anxiously looking for public officials willing to push back. Those distressed by the gutting and recent … » Read

The San Antonio Philharmonic is entangled in a number of lawsuits that make its continued cancellation of concerts look benign. Not only does it owe refunds to ticket holders, it owes $750,000 to the Scottish Rite, having failed to make the … » Read

Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR, and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created … » Read

Although Philadelphia’s Academy of Music is the nation’s oldest continually operating opera house, New Orleans can rightfully claim the mantle of being the first. The long-since-destroyed Théâtre d’Orléans … » Read

One way to guarantee an electoral victory is to change the voting rules. That appears to have been the strategy deployed to add DT’s name to a “rebranded” Kennedy Center by a “unanimous” vote of the Center’s … » Read