On July 15, Opera Colorado and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) announced their first-ever collective bargaining agreement. Negotiations underway since May 2025 produced a three-year contract that includes opera singers, staging … » Read

Last night’s concert staging of Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, IL was cancelled due to hazardous air quality from the wildfires in Canada. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus … » Read

An artist seeking entrance to perform in the U.S. must navigate a set of rules that seem designed to dissuade them from coming. A process that may take well over a year includes four steps, with no guarantee that having completed them correctly … » Read

Downtown Seattle will get the city’s first permanent dedicated space for chamber music in 2028, when the Seattle Chamber Music Society (SCMS) opens its new 271-seat concert hall in the recently renovated, 44-story U.S. Bank Center office … » Read

Longtime Boston Symphony Orchestra patrons George Whiting and Quinn MacKenzie have created a website, StandWithAndris.org and an online petition . They have joined the BSO musicians and a significant number of other patrons in protesting the … » Read

America’s musical homage to its founding document has been inconsistent at best. Richard Wagner’s Grosse Festmarsch , a 12-minute orchestral score commissioned for a then-princely sum of $5,000 (around $150,000 today) by the … » Read

A commitment of $1.5 million from Frances and Dennis R. Nolan will endow a named chair in Baroque and Early Music in the School of Music at The University of South Carolina. Funds generated by the endowment will be directed toward the recruitment … » Read

Music trade organizations are uniting to advocate for voluntary labeling to distinguish between works that are all or partly made using artificial intelligence. Currently, Apple Music reports that more than one-third of its tracks are “100 … » Read

A Democratic senator on Saturday alleged that whistleblowers have detailed several problems stemming from rushed or improper reconstruction of the Kennedy Center, adding a new layer to the travails of the arts complex as President Donald Trump … » Read

Following report continues  Leipzig Bach Festival coverage, from July 9. With all the change St. Thomas Church (Thomaskirche) has seen since Bach worked (and was buried) there, I was curious to know what it was like to perform there. … » Read