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

On Jan. 4 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) handed a victory to the striking musicians of the Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestra. In a ruling that found that the SSO had breached its agreement with the musicians by refusing to issue … » Read

The January 11 Carnegie Hall concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra under its Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin has been postponed to February 21 at 8 pm, “due to COVID-related concerns arising from the large number of … » Read

Joshua Kosman, music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle , makes no excuses for failing to limit his year-end list of musical highlights. “To have gone without live music for as long as we did through the months of lockdown was a … » Read

With cast and creatives scheduled to start arriving this week in Chicago, and the ongoing travel and health issues due to Covid-19, the Chicago Lyric Opera has announced the postponement of Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up , scheduled for January … » Read

Enough, already! Across the U.S., performances, industry conferences, and numerous other indoor events are being disrupted by Covid. In western Europe, it’s pretty much the same, although cancellations and last-minute cast changes are … » Read