July 21 is the early-bird deadline for registration for the first “Orchestras Now! Future Proof,” an international conference organized by Poland’s National Forum of Music (NFM) set to run September 6-8 in Wroclaw. It features … » Read

The news that John Williams’s work on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is his last film score may mark the end to “an epic era of film music,” writes Mark Swed in the Los Angeles Times . But it hardly signals an end to the … » Read

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Is non-English language music the future of the music business? Perhaps. The global music industry surpassed 1 trillion streams at the fastest pace, ever, in a calendar year, Luminate's 2023 Midyear Report has found. The … » Read

Hip hop and classical music might seem like strange bedfellows, but Darin Atwater [pictured] thinks otherwise. Tonight, the Baltimore-based conductor, pianist, and composer’s hip-hop-infused Black Metropolis will premiere in a performance … » Read

NEW YORK — Teen musicians from the National Youth Orchestra of the USA walked onto the Carnegie Hall stage and acted in unison, much like string sections following their leaders: They pulled out cell phones and took selfies. As previously … » Read

Patrons of the San Diego Symphony (SDS) are going to have to wait a bit longer to enjoy the results of the $125 million renovation underway at Copley Symphony Hall in the Jacobs Music Center. The emergence of unexpected construction and redesign … » Read

Pittsburgh currently has two opera companies. The older, larger Pittsburgh Opera attracts thousands of patrons for productions presented in the fall, winter, and spring. The Pittsburgh Festival Opera (PFO) was established in 1978 and initially … » Read

A disruptive environmental protest at the opening night of the BBC Proms might well prove a portent of things to come for a British institution seemingly under attack. With major London performing arts institutions facing sharp cuts in government … » Read

The San Francisco Symphony (SFS) has some inventive programming going for it, thanks largely to both its current and immediate past music directors, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Michael Tilson Thomas. But, according to San Francisco Classical Voice … » Read

National Sawdust, the Brooklyn-based performing arts venue that enjoys a reputation for nurturing the careers of curious and groundbreaking artists, many of them historically marginalized, has completed the $21 million acquisition and renovation … » Read