Recently released operating results for fiscal year 2022-23 as well as season highlights paint a rosy picture for the Cleveland Orchestra. For the fifth full operating year the budget balanced, with total revenues and expenses of $61.3 million … » Read

Oxford Brookes University has announced that it is closing its Music Department, in existence since 1979, despite the fact that a new performance is scheduled to open within the next year.  Students who began matriculating two months ago … » Read

The Syracuse Opera has cancelled the remainder of its 2023-24 season. “Like many opera companies across the country,” board chair Camille Tisdel told members on Nov. 17, “ticket sales have been considerably lower than projected … » Read

Partnerships of symphony orchestras with pop and rock musicians are hardly new—Procol Harum and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra produced a best-selling album in 1972. And S&M , the recording of the 1999 collaboration between Metallica … » Read

While the London Symphony Orchestra will likely receive top orchestral billing, they are not the only featured ensemble in Maestro , Bradley Cooper’s forthcoming cinematic homage to Leonard Bernstein. Also on the bill are the young … » Read

There is a glimmer of hope for U.K. musicians and other creatives beset by the career-stifling bureaucracy that has accompanied their nation’s decision to leave the European Union. Early in November, the domestic advisory groups formed in … » Read

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) and Harmonia Mundi have struck a deal for multiple recordings over the next three years. The partnership marks the 65-year-old French label’s first major project with a major North American orchestra, … » Read

Beginning in the fall of 2024, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) and the Winston-Salem Symphony will launch a graduate-level Orchestral Strings Fellowship. Each year five students will receive a full scholarship and … » Read

The growing scrutiny of the traditional format for symphony concerts has produced a multitude of experiments by orchestras here and abroad. Groups have tried everything from semi-staged operas in concert to seating audience members among the … » Read

In late 1989 the fall of the Berlin Wall, after 28 years, ignited rapturous celebrations throughout Germany and Europe, and around the world. The creation of a musical gesture worthy of the moment required someone possessing a rare combination of … » Read