Since 1995, the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) has served as the arts funding agency for the City of Portland, Oregon as well as the Metro area, and Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties. With an annual budget most recently of … » Read

In June of 2024, the Dallas Symphony will return to Europe for the first time in a decade with 11 concert stops in ten cities in Spain, Germany, Austria, and Belgium. Led by Fabio Luisi on his first tour as DSO music director, the orchestra will … » Read

On Friday, Nov. 3, the California Festival: A Celebration of New Music kicks off two-weeks of performances of music written since 2018 by more than 140 composers. Over 100 organizations and ensembles—symphony orchestras, chamber music … » Read

Long before the Gilmore Artist Award was awarded to Alexandre Kantorow last month, the French pianist had established himself as an exceptionally poetic keyboard personality, as witnessed in his  October 22 Carnegie Hall debut. Absolutely … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 10 years after it was first imagined as an opera , Grounded is ready to take flight. With music by Jeanine Tesori and a libretto adapted by George Brant from his own play, Grounded tells the story of an F-16 fighter … » Read

In 2014 Joel Thompson, “emotionally broken” after Eric Garner died at the hands of a New York City police officer, began to compose Seven Last Words of the Unarmed . He created a table with the seven last sayings of Christ on the … » Read

On Sat., Oct 28, pops music made a triumphant return to Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center with afternoon and evening concerts by the recently formed No Name Pops . The 52 musicians, many of refugees from the now defunct Philly Pops, combined … » Read

In 2003 Hubie Jones, a civic leader committed to addressing social problems facing Boston’s underserved children and communities, founded the Boston Children’s Chorus (BCC). The intervening decades have seen BCC grow to include ten … » Read

Ongoing turmoil at the governance level of the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity led the Alberta government’s Advanced Education Minister Rajan Sawhney to replace all of the Center’s board of directors with a single administrator. … » Read

When an opera’s main character is both paralyzed and speechless, it takes considerable imagination to bring the story to life. Composer Joby Talbot [pictured] and librettist Gene Scheer are set to meet the challenge with The Diving Bell and … » Read