The Philadelphia Ballet’s annual Nutcracker has become an ideal training ground for young conductors eager to test their abilities in front of a professional orchestra. Each season Beatrice Jona Affron, the company’s music director … » Read

As it approaches its 45 th anniversary with the 2024-25 season, the Atlanta Opera joins Opera America’s official “Budget One” status for opera companies with budgets of $15 million and above. There are but ten of them, out of … » Read

The largest venue at the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Benedict Music Tent, has been renamed the Michael Klein Music Tent in honor of a gift from its namesake, a longtime board member and supporter.  Festival and School President and … » Read

The Groton Hill Music Center’s new, 300-seat Meadow Hall, created by Cambridge architects Epstein Joslin and Chicago’s Threshold Acoustics, may be “the region’s most acoustically alive concert venue.”  This … » Read

Sophie Kastner is writing music that is literally out of this world. The Montreal composer created Where Parallel Lines Converge from the same data from the Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer telescopes that scientists use to create pictures of deep … » Read

On Dec. 6 the Metropolitan King County Council unanimously approved a 0.1 percent sales tax increase to fund “Doors Open.” The program anticipates distributing more than $100 million annually to arts, heritage, science, and historical … » Read

On Dec. 8 the musicians of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, seeking increased wages, voted to approve a possible strike. Negotiations, which have been ongoing since April 2022, have thus far produced, according to a press release from the … » Read

Hollywood filmmakers, often subject to spasms of enthusiasm, recently seem to have fallen in love with classical music. Witness the focus of five films released in the last 18 months: Bradley Cooper’s Maestro and Cate Blanchett’s star … » Read

On Dec. 3 a new chorus made a promising debut in Washington, D.C. The Washington Douglass Chorale, a 47-member semiprofessional ensemble, is the creation of former Choral Arts Society of Washington Director Scott Tucker and Music Director Nolan … » Read

The announcement that English National Opera will decamp for Manchester, as per the heavy-handed directive from Arts Council England (ACE), “raises far more questions than it answers,” writes senior Telegraph critic Nicholas Kenyon. … » Read