The Ojai Music Festival promises, as always, a wealth of new and unusual offerings, with summer 2023 curated by composer/performer Rhiannon Giddens. She and Ojai Artistic Director Ara Guzelimian have laid out plans for the June 8-11 weekend, … » Read

“Absurd,” “insane,” and “not doable” are a few of the words used by Stuart Murphy, the English National Opera's boss, to describe Arts Council England’s plan to have the company decamp to Manchester. … » Read

The decision by Arts Council of England (ACE) to leverage the loss of its funding to the English National Opera (ENO) to force the company to relocate took many by surprise. Mark Wigglesworth, whose brief tenure as the company’s music … » Read

SAN DIEGO (AP) — California voters on Tuesday approved a ballot measure backed by a celebrity lineup that included Barbra Streisand and Los Angeles-born rappers will.i.am and Dr. Dre that could pump as much as $1 billion a year from the … » Read

Is Arts Council (ACE) attacking opera? Nicholas Kenyon, chief opera critic for The Telegraph and most recently managing director of the Barbican, certainly thinks so. The ACE’s decision to  dramatically change its past funding … » Read

The internecine warfare within San Antonio’s classical music community continues unabated .  The latest skirmish pitted the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 23 against Opera San Antonio and the Classical Music Institute … » Read

Americans love lists, enthusiastically ranking everything from fast food to the world’s sexist men and women to educational institutions. The Hollywood Reporter ( HR ) has just released its annual compilation of the best music schools in … » Read

The demise of arts journalism can be traced back to stats-counting newspaper bosses, to the rise of the internet at the fall of print, to lack of arts education in schools, and Lord only knows what all else. Oddly, arts journalism has persisted, … » Read

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (AP) — Hard of hearing, Thomas Edison found a unique way to appreciate piano music. As someone played, the great inventor would lean in close to the instrument, right above the keys, and he’d bite the piano. Pressing … » Read

The Cincinnati May Festival has big plans for its 150 th -anniversary season, including revisiting some of the works that it premiered in the U.S.—such as the J.S. Bach Magnificat , which this now 127-member-strong chorus of serious … » Read