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

Sadly for those not in the know, because it is long sold out, Les Arts Florissants’s magical new staging of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen comes to Alice Tully Hall on November 2. It represents the sole U.S. stop on an otherwise … » Read

Following 17 months of negotiations, the musicians of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement on Oct. 25. The previous contract expired in August 2022; the new agreement, retroactive to Sept. 1, 2023, … » Read

Classical radio stations are facing tough going in many parts of the U.S. But not in Portland, Oregon, where KQAC 89.9 FM, aka All Classical Radio, proudly lays claim to being the number one classical music station in the nation. … » Read

The arrival of Antony and Cleopatra , John Adams’s rendition of Shakespeare’s tale of love, lust, and power, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona comes on the heels of Spain’s ongoing reckoning with sexism and abuse of … » Read