The 50 th anniversary of The Cleveland Orchestra’s (TCO) Blossom Music Festival will take place from July 3 through September 7 at Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The program is an eclectic mix of classical chestnuts, film scores, Broadway … » Read

For the past 12 years the Washington National Opera’s (WNO) American Opera Initiative (AOI) has paired three teams of composers and librettists with professional mentors to produce concert-ready 20-minute operas that, notes the Washington … » Read

Next summer’s Colorado Music Festival will offer 19 orchestral performances by the Festival Orchestra, with Music Director Peter Oundjian and four guest conductors on the podium; chamber music featuring two string quartets; and a dozen … » Read

Knowing when it’s time to quit is one of life’s hardest decisions. Hanging on too long can risk public humiliation and embarrassment as well as resentment from rising generations eager for their moment in the spotlight. A drop-off in … » Read

Eight years ago, a casual conversation with an archivist at the museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau set Leo Geyer on a journey to resurrect music written by prisoners at the Nazi death camp. The musician and composer knew that as many as six orchestras … » Read

Brooklyn’s much beloved Bargemusic, two years from its 50th anniversary of offering low cost, high quality chamber concerts on the East River, is moving. Although the quality of the music has remained strong, the vessel for it has succumbed … » Read

The dispersal of the central Philadelphia real estate owned by the defunct University of the Arts has begun in earnest. On Jan. 14 at public auction, the Curtis Institute of Music outbid Temple University, paying $7.6 million for the Arts … » Read

On Jan. 16 TF Cornerstone, the owner of central Philadelphia’s Wanamaker Building, issued an encouraging statement about the future of the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ after Macy’s March departure . The New York-based firm … » Read

Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) will tour Japan for the first time in 40 years next spring, along with making its debut in Korea. The May 29-to-June 7 trip marks the orchestra’s 99 th tour since its founding in 1969 in … » Read

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) has bought Supraphon, one of the Czech Republic’s most dynamic music labels, expanding the company’s footprint in central Europe. Since its founding in 1932, Supraphon has built an eclectic catalogue … » Read