Chicago Sinfonietta has received what it calls a “special award” of $1 million from the Mellon Foundation, whose granting practices among arts organizations continue to reflect the Foundation-wide focus on social justice. Sinfonietta … » Read

The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra , brainchild of Canadian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson, whose grandmothers are Ukrainian and Icelandic, wife of Met Opera General Manager Peter Gelb, made its debut in Warsaw’s National Concert Hall on July 28. … » Read

In recent years, patrons of the Nashville Symphony had come to dread the arrival of summer, when tens of thousands of purple martins chose to treat the elm trees surrounding the Schermerhorn Symphony Center as their favorite Airbnb stopover … » Read

COVID-19 and its variants continue to spread their unwanted ills, and choristers singing without masks should take note: Because of a number of cases in its ranks, the Blossom Festival Chorus has cancelled its appearance with the Cleveland … » Read

The Salzburg Festival is coming under heavy criticism for its links to performers and sponsors tied to Vladimir Putin and the Russian government. At the center of the controversy is the opening night performance by the St. Petersburg-based … » Read

Orchestras around the world have embraced the popularity of live-with-film concerts. They are reliable revenue generators, typically selling-out, and are proving to be vehicles with which to introduce new, younger audiences to orchestra … » Read

While ecstatic at the prospect of a full-fledged return to live performances, The Washington Post’s music critic Michael Andor Brodeur laments the slow but seemingly steady demise of the printed program. Whereas “happy ushers” … » Read

The Mostly Mozart Festival, a summertime staple of Lincoln Center for over 50 years, is all but dead, argues Zachary Woolfe in The New York Times . “Instead,” he contends, “classical music, even in its ever-struggling nonprofit … » Read

The Rise Diversity Project aims to remedy one of the biggest shortcomings in the pool of classically trained American musicians—the relative absence of individuals from Black, Latinx, and Asian communities. Conceived and organized by … » Read

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v Wade will lend the San Francisco Opera’s June 2023 presentation of R. Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten ( The Woman Without a Shadow ) an unwelcome immediacy. At the … » Read