In the last ten days, as performance groups prepare to launch their first live indoor seasons in, in some cases, 18 months, safety protocols are coming into focus. The latest announcement comes from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, requiring proof … » Read

The San Antonio Symphony (SAS), which flirted with death as recently as 2018 , is once again struggling to mount a sustainable 2021-22 season. A rumored 50 percent cut in the base salary of $35,774 to $17,710 for the ensemble’s musicians … » Read

Panic was the operative word for many in the classical music world when the pandemic shut down their industry in March 2020. “I lost all of my work," recalls violinist Jennifer Koh. "It was not good times." At one point she had to rely on … » Read

Apple has acquired Primephonic, the four-year-old Netherlands-based classical music streaming service .  The tech behemoth’s plans call for the launch, at some as-yet-undetermined time, of a dedicated Apple Music Classical experience, … » Read

Europe has historically offered a warmer reception to Black American composers than has the U.S. William Grant Still’s music received some of its earliest performances in Paris, for example, and his Afro-American Symphony received its … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — There’s a woman who has seen the play Pass Over multiple times in just a few days. She sat with the audience one night, returned another day to stand at the back of the theater and once stayed backstage for an entire … » Read

AFM Local 802 has accused the New York City Ballet of using the pandemic as an excuse to not pay a fair wage to its orchestra while the company was shuttered.  The union, in a letter to City Ballet Executive Director Katherine E. Brown, … » Read

A deal struck on Aug. 24 between the Metropolitan Opera and the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), the union representing orchestra members, assures that the nation’s largest performing arts organization will open its 2021-22 season as … » Read

In the summer of 1990, the 76-year-old John Cage admitted defeat, telling a German audience, “I no longer consider it necessary to find alternatives to harmony. After all these years I am finally writing beautiful music.” The … » Read

An ocean traffic jam threatening to scuttle the Los Angeles Opera’s much-anticipated season opener of Il Trovatore is calling for desperate measures by company officials. The sets for the Verdi warhorse, on their way from the Opera de … » Read