Spotify reports that in 2021 it paid $7bn to music industry rights holders, an amount that accounted for more than one quarter of the recording industry’s $25.9bn in total revenue. The year-end total represented an 18.5 percent increase … » Read

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2022-2023 season will mark the 13 th and last year of Riccardo Muti’s tenure as music director, and, by season’s end, his 500 th appearance on the CSO podium since 1973. His musical legacy and … » Read

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Russian bombs fall daily on Kharkiv since the invasion of Ukraine, but time stood still briefly on Saturday as a group of Ukrainian musicians moved listeners with a classical concert. Three violinists, a cellist, … » Read

The Boston Symphony is citing “unforeseen logistical complications between England and Austria” as the reason behind the cancellation of its two concerts in Royal Festival Hall, May 12 and 13. It’s possible that this is in fact … » Read

Seemingly intent on  reviving a tradition of producing new orchestral music that saw the creation of over 450 new works and more than 150 recordings over 75 years, the Louisville Orchestra (LO) is launching the Louisville Orchestra Creators … » Read

For the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO), the 2022/23 season will celebrate the ensemble’s centennial and also mark two important firsts: the inaugural season for newly appointed CEO Mark Williams and the first complete season of concerts … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — A display case in his old high school gave David T. Little the inspiration for his first opera — a work that 18 years later has followed an unusual path to a nomination at this year’s Grammy awards. Soldier Songs … » Read

In the summer of 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old child from Chicago, was brutally tortured and murdered for allegedly offending a white woman while visiting relatives in Mississippi. His mother Mamie Till-Mobley’s insistence on an … » Read

The Ojai Festival’s 75 th anniversary season, June 9-12, is the perfect antidote to Beethoven-250 burnout. The mostly outdoor festival is always a contemporary music-lover’s paradise, but this year’s model is particularly … » Read

During the 2022-2023 season,  the New York Philharmonic and the Interlochen Center for the Arts are planning to forge a collaboration that will represent, in the words of Interlochen President Trey Devey, “a formative experience that … » Read