In 2017 Charleston’s Spoleto Festival asked the MacArthur award-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens to write an opera based on the 1831 autobiography of Omar ibn Said , a Muslim scholar from Senegal who was captured and sold into slavery for … » Read

Every few months yet another incident reminds classical musicians that buying an airline ticket is no guarantee that they will be able to show up with their instrument for a scheduled concert. On Oct. 13, 2022, cellist Santiago … » Read

The paucity of Black conductors and music directors of American orchestras remains one of the major issues for the classical music world. In the most recent (2016) survey by the League of American Orchestras of 170 members, only 2.4 percent of … » Read

The Philadelphia Orchestra has cancelled its tour of China under Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, part of a three-week trip in May planned in commemoration of its landmark 1973 visit there, a first for an American orchestra. … » Read

Over the past five years, enrollment at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University has grown by 24 percent. This fall’s student body—760 musicians and dancers hailing from 44 states and more than 30 countries—is … » Read

PETA Deutschland has asked the Berlin State Opera to remove all live animals from  Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov's current productions of Das Rhinegold and Die Walküre . In a public appeal, the German arm of the world’s … » Read

For anyone who grew up playing the piano only to lose the habit and the discipline (not to mention the technique) as the years passed by, a wonderfully convincing article in the Atlanti c bears the directive, and the title, “Go Ahead, Buy a … » Read

“Reunited in Dance” will bring together an international roster of ballet stars on Nov. 12, 2022, for a one-time performance at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, CA. Possessing ties to Ukraine and … » Read

With masking no longer required in much of New York City, including Broadway theaters and schools, venues historically associated with the classical performing arts—Koch Theater at Lincoln Center along with the Met Opera, the Film Society, … » Read

A public meeting of the Bexar County Commissioners Court on Oct. 11 produced a heated debate about a proposal to provide $300,000 in funding for San Antonio’s so-called Classical Music Institution, which would fund an orchestra for the … » Read