With the arrival of Gustavo Dudamel as music and artistic director designate, two years hence, the New York Philharmonic receives its largest-ever single endowment gift: $40 million from Oscar L. Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang.  Mr. Tang is the … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — In a mammoth room behind translucent marble walls, workers are setting the stage for the World Trade Center’s newest addition. It isn’t another office tower, nor is it a monument, at least explicitly, to the … » Read

One 93-year-old man is responsible for some of Finland’s greatest exports—orchestra conductors. The well-seasoned Esa-Pekka Salonen, leading female conductors like Susanna Mälkki and Dalia Stasevska, and rising stars Klaus … » Read

The theme of “Summer of Paradise” proved just right for the five-week 2023 Lucerne Festival, which attracted 13,800 more concertgoers—a 12 percent increase—than did the previous summer’s festivities. Over 84,000 … » Read

The musicians of the New York City Ballet (NYCB) orchestra have authorized a strike if a new contract cannot be negotiated with management. The two parties have thus far held five negotiating sessions; the current contract expired on Aug. 31. The … » Read

During the 2023-24 season, Chicago’s Lyric Opera will be piloting the SoundShirt, a new system designed to allow audience members, especially those who are deaf or hard of hearing, to experience live performances enhanced by real-time … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera’s announcement in late 2022 that future seasons would offer a significantly greater number of contemporary operas than in the past seemed to signal a major sea change. In April, General Manager Peter Gelb further … » Read

The relationship between music and remembrance is at the core of Jeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance . The book is both a cultural history of four musical works—R. … » Read

Are classical music’s feisty independent labels soon to be an endangered species? BIS, the award-winning Swedish company, is to “partner” with Apple Music Classical and the Apple-owned creative services company Platoon. Founded … » Read

Barrie Kosky is knee-deep in Wagner as he prepares his new production of Das Rheingold for its September 11 premiere at the Royal Opera House. The 56-year-old Australian director admits to Neil Fisher, a music critic for The Times , that he and … » Read