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

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