Over four centuries ago the English playwright and poet William Congreves wrote, “Music has charms to soothe a savage breast.” In our post-pandemic time, many U.S. teachers are turning to music to help alleviate the depression and … » Read

G. Schirmer and the Exilarte Center for Banned Music in Vienna are partnering to make available more than 400 works banned by the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s. Over 300 songs, 100 chamber music works, 50 orchestral works, several vocal and … » Read

London’s Chineke! Orchestra, the first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra in Europe, made a notable debut in 2017 at the BBC Proms and two years later received the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Gamechanger Award. A recent … » Read

Sustaining a career as a professional classical musician is difficult under any circumstance. As “Bittersweet Symphony,” a new report suggests, it is exponentially more so if you are a parent or a caregiver for an older or disabled … » Read

The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) will be disbursing almost $32mn in funds to 1,032 arts organizations throughout the state. Grants are based on applications submitted in September 2021 for a peer review process and final approval by … » Read

While the pandemic that paralyzed the performing arts world has receded, its aftereffects continue to haunt organizations whose audiences are continuing to stay away. This is a  national phenomenon that is generally attributed to a … » Read

The streaming service Spotify made $9.56bn in 2021, but remarkably little of that money found its way into musicians’ pockets. The platform estimates that it hosts about 65,000 artists that have released at least ten songs and have at least … » Read

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