The 2025 Grant Park Music Festival, the first for Giancarlo Guerrero in his role as artistic director and principal conductor, offers 20 programs during the ten weeks from June 11 to August 16. Most of the concerts will be at Millennium … » Read

The ushers at the Academy of Music,  Kimmel Center, and the Miller Theater have rejected a Dec. 30 contract offer from Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts (POEA) management. As such, and since they are represented by IATSE … » Read

The Welsh National Opera (WNO), coming up on its 80 th anniversary and struggling to survive in the face of Arts Council England’s decision to cut its funding by 35 percent, has its new management team: Adele Thomas and Sarah Crabtree, … » Read

Ushers for the Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts Philly—i.e. the Kimmel Center and affiliated venues—will not go on  strike as their union threatened earlier in the week. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage … » Read

For some aficionados, the introduction of technology to enhance the experience of classical music appears threatening, a transformation that will somehow devalue the art form. For the renowned violinist and educator Cho-Liang [Jimmy] Lin (Musical … » Read

For music fans, streaming services like Spotify offer the “universal jukebox,” a means of having music at one’s beck and call, usually for a small monthly subscription fee. While concerns about the ethics of Spotify’s … » Read

The slums in the Kenyan cities of Nairobi and Mombasa are among the world’s worst, filled with tens of thousands suffering from hunger, domestic violence, crime, and, in some instances, the toxic environmental conditions created by nearby … » Read

Launching a new performing arts organization in the post-pandemic world is not for the faint of heart, but Tekla Cunningham seems unfazed by the prospect. A charismatic violin virtuoso, artistic director, and educator who is a leading figure in … » Read

Those concerned about the oft-ballyhooed death of classical music took heart from a 2022 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra study that found people under 35 are actually more likely to listen to classical music than their parents. The following year, … » Read

This month Brilliant Classics will release Female Composers , a 25-CD set of recordings created during the past 30 years. Written by women composers over the course of more than 900 years, the list numbers 36, ranging from the Medieval mystic … » Read