Classical music generally gets treated like a red-headed stepchild by the Recording Academy, which each year bestows Grammy awards for a laundry list of musical genres. None of the classical awards are presented on the televised broadcast, and a … » Read

The recent release of the “Michael Gielen Edition,” a set of 88 CDs capturing five decades of the Austrian maestro’s work, confirms his place as “one of the most stimulating conductors of the 20 th century,” opines a … » Read

As the musicians and management of the San Antonio Symphony met with a federal mediator on Feb. 14 to seek an end to a months-long strike , the ensemble’s Music Director Emeritus Sebastian Lang-Lessing spoke with Texas Public Radio about … » Read

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given Cincinnati Opera $1.3 million to develop new operas based on primarily Black stories written by Black composers and Black librettists. Monies will also support Opera Fusion: New Works (OF:NW) , the … » Read

With an endowment gift of $8 million, the Gilmore has established a new quadrennial award for jazz pianists that parallels the current one for classical artists (The Gilmore Artist Award), the most recipient of which was Igor Levit, in 2018. The … » Read

This summer’s centennial season for the Hollywood Bowl will kick off on June 11 and 12, when the Los Angeles Philharmonic hosts a free weekend festival at the Bowl and a second venue at The Ford. Over the following three months, the musical … » Read

Foundations in Detroit and New York have recently awarded funding to support both well-established institutions and newly minted opera producers and administrators. In Detroit the William Davidson Foundation has announced respective grants of … » Read

The 35 th edition of Bravo! Vail, June 23 to August 4, 2022, plans to feature more than 60 concerts in what Artistic Director Anne-Marie McDermott calls “the return of full-scale orchestras, robust programming, family favorites, and concert … » Read

The first Spoleto Festival USA under its new General Director Mena Mark Hanna [pictured] sounds and looks rather different from its predecessors, although western classical music is still represented in the chamber music series and a few of the … » Read

A new study from UNESCO, the United Nation’s cultural agency, reports that ten million jobs in the creative industries have been lost to the pandemic. At the same time, increasing digitization of cultural content has made it harder for … » Read