It is heartbreaking, though hardly surprising, that Zohra, the all-female orchestra once based in Kabul, is a thing of the past. Once a symbol of the new freedom—for music, for women, for self-expression—the 40-member ensemble has no … » Read

Since YouTube Music launched its Premium service in 2014, it has attracted over 50 million subscribers; 20 million of those signed up just within the past year. While Spotify dominates the global market with 165mn subscribers, neither Apple Music … » Read

When Andrew Yee, a member of the Grammy award-winning Attacca Quartet, showed up for an Air Wisconsin flight to Fargo with his cello in hand, the airline refused him boarding, despite his purchase of a separate ticket for the instrument. … » Read

In the last ten days, as performance groups prepare to launch their first live indoor seasons in, in some cases, 18 months, safety protocols are coming into focus. The latest announcement comes from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, requiring proof … » Read

The San Antonio Symphony (SAS), which flirted with death as recently as 2018 , is once again struggling to mount a sustainable 2021-22 season. A rumored 50 percent cut in the base salary of $35,774 to $17,710 for the ensemble’s musicians … » Read

Panic was the operative word for many in the classical music world when the pandemic shut down their industry in March 2020. “I lost all of my work," recalls violinist Jennifer Koh. "It was not good times." At one point she had to rely on … » Read

Apple has acquired Primephonic, the four-year-old Netherlands-based classical music streaming service .  The tech behemoth’s plans call for the launch, at some as-yet-undetermined time, of a dedicated Apple Music Classical experience, … » Read

Europe has historically offered a warmer reception to Black American composers than has the U.S. William Grant Still’s music received some of its earliest performances in Paris, for example, and his Afro-American Symphony received its … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — There’s a woman who has seen the play Pass Over multiple times in just a few days. She sat with the audience one night, returned another day to stand at the back of the theater and once stayed backstage for an entire … » Read

AFM Local 802 has accused the New York City Ballet of using the pandemic as an excuse to not pay a fair wage to its orchestra while the company was shuttered.  The union, in a letter to City Ballet Executive Director Katherine E. Brown, … » Read