The San Diego Symphony has announced its new director of artistic planning. Alan J. Benson joins the organization from New York, where he was director of artistic administration at the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Benson—familiarly known … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera has announced the launch of its new streaming platform, which it hopes will attract opera-lovers unable to reach a cinema to catch its Live in HD simulcasts. The new initiative will be compatible with any device, from smart … » Read

Last Friday, NPR news program All Things Considered posed the question, where are the Black musicians in the country's largest orchestras? The response was gloomy. In 2014, the League of American Orchestras published a study that found that only … » Read

This year’s annual meeting of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra was cause for celebration, as the ensemble announced that the conclusion of its 2021/22 season brought with it the elimination of an accumulated deficit that had bedeviled the TSO … » Read

Apple is said to be nearing the release of Apple Music Classical, its standalone music streaming app promised for a 2022 introduction. In August 2021 the tech giant bought the classical music service Primephonic, at the time promising, … » Read

With support from the Ford Foundation, the Denyce Graves Foundation has launched “Shared Voices,” a partnership designed to offer opportunities for young singers from diverse backgrounds. In describing the initiative, the … » Read

The newly formed  San Antonio Philharmonic has purchased the assets of the defunct San Antonio Symphony with unspecified financial resources made available by David Wood and Colette Holt, and by the American Federation of Musicians Local 23. … » Read

Gustav Mahler’s autograph score of his Symphony No. 2, Resurrection , now belongs to the Cleveland Orchestra, a gift from Herbert G. Kloiber, an Austrian media tycoon and orchestra trustee. “The manuscript,” exclaimed … » Read

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rossini’s Otello premiered in 1816, and the musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play was a hit for seven decades. Then Verdi’s version debuted in 1887 and was acclaimed as a pinnacle of the art … » Read

The first product of the Emerging Black Composers Project , the two-year-old commissioning project of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, is set for its premiere on Sept. 29 with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting … » Read