ORLANDO – Steinmetz Hall has been a long time coming. First proposed in the 1990s, the development of a first-class venue for classical music, opera, and dance in downtown Orlando had to overcome many delays, detours, and doubts through the … » Read

The San Francisco Symphony cancelled its matinee concert on Thursday, 30 minutes before the downbeat. Results from the morning’s routine Covid tests among the musicians had apparently just come in and so the decision had to be made at the … » Read

Terry Teachout, biographer, playwright, journalist, blogger, and longtime theater critic for the Wall Street Journal , died the morning of January 13 while visiting a friend in Smithtown, NY. He was 65. His death was first reported in the … » Read

January 11 marked the fifth anniversary of the opening of Elbphilharmonie Hamburg , an architectural marvel that has elevated the cultural profile of this northern German city internationally. Since 2017 its performance halls have hosted about … » Read

As anticipated, the Cleveland Orchestra has cancelled its tour of Southern Florida, scheduled for January 21-29, starting at the Adrianne Arsht Center in Miami and traveling to the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, and Symphony Hall at … » Read

The Chicago-based WFMT Radio Network launched its first broadcast of the China National Center for the Performing Arts (CNCPA) on January 6, the first of 13 new two-hour programs to be aired until March 31. A coproduction of the network and the … » Read

The Republic of Ireland is finalizing plans to provide a basic income for as many as 2,000 people working in the arts. The idea was the top recommendation from an arts and culture taskforce established to determine how best to respond to the … » Read

Eugene Lavrenchuk, former director of the Moscow Polish Theater, the Odesa Opera and Ballet Theater, and Ukraine's first cinema and theater school, has been detained in Naples since Dec. 17. He was arrested on a Russian warrant when his flight … » Read

Aficionados of irony may delight at the conundrum Taylor Swift faces when contemplating that Universal Music Group, her record label, and two of her closest collaborators at the label—head of publishing Jody Gerson and Troy … » Read

Does a white church choir’s performance of a Negro spiritual constitute cultural appropriation? That question led the parishioners of United Parish in Brookline, MA, and the congregation’s Minister of Music Susan DeSelms to arrive at … » Read