For the past 15 years in Juárez, Mexico, violinist Jové García has run the Orquesta Sinfónica Esperanza Azteca (Aztec Hope Symphony Orchestra), an after-school music program that teaches children between 7 and 18 to … » Read

OrchKids, the famed Baltimore Symphony program serving local school children with music instruction and much more, has received a gift of $1 million from founding donors and noted regional philanthropists Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker. … » Read

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Last month, the Recording Academy announced a series of changes to the Grammy Awards to better reflect an evolving music industry. Of those newly instituted guidelines, protocols involving technological advancements in … » Read

The Manchester Collective, a six-year-old ensemble that includes anywhere from two to 20-plus musicians, was cited by the recent Royal Philharmonic Society Awards jury as "transforming all our perceptions" of what a classical music group can be. … » Read

Ireland has launched a bold experiment to support its arts and culture workers. Two thousand visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers, actors, dancers, and others chosen at random from among 8,000 applicants will receive a basic income of … » Read

Major changes are under consideration as the Chautauqua Institution and its opera company, facing universal post-pandemic declines in audiences, examine the daunting cost of creating professional opera productions. While conversations are … » Read

In the fall of 2024, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) will partner with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Media Lab to open the Jeanne R. Johnson Education Center. Offering “STEAM-based learning (Science, … » Read

A new partnership of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO), the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (The Clarice) at the University of Maryland (UMD), and UMD’s School of Music (SOM) aims to promote community engagement. “Voices of … » Read

On July 7 and 8, the Glimmerglass Festival opens its season, the first under General and Artistic Director Robert Ainsley , with Puccini’s La bohème and Bernstein’s Candide . Although most of the season’s offerings were … » Read

As the Philly Pops continues to maintain that it has “postponed” concerts for which it has sold tickets, it is also claiming that it does not have sufficient access to its ticket database to be able to refund monies collected. Not … » Read