A commitment of $20 million from Cheryl Goldberg in honor of her late husband Michael has enabled the Music Academy of the West to acquire a property in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara as the site for a music education center. The new venue … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday denied a request by the American Library Association to halt the Trump administration’s further dismantling of an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the country, saying that … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera and the union for its soloists and chorus announced a one-year agreement Friday on a contract. The agreement calls for a 2.5% wage increase plus an additional temporary 2.5% hike that followed the … » Read

Ingrid Martin will become assistant conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) beginning with the 2025–2026 season. She will also serve as the Phillip and Lauren Fisher Community Ambassador as well as music director of the … » Read

In late May the Seattle Symphony launched the public phase of its $20 million Amplify campaign to enhance the public spaces of Benaroya Hall. Opened in downtown Seattle in 1998, the city-owned venue occupies an entire city block and houses two … » Read

Following their graduation from the New England Conservatory in 2019, violinist Alyssa Wang and clarinetist Nicholas Brown decided to found an orchestra. This summer the Boston Festival Orchestra (BFO) will celebrate its fifth anniversary. Their … » Read

Jon Suder, a Fort Worth attorney, recently did something that dwindling numbers of Americans are doing: He bought a new acoustic piano—one of Steinway’s Spiro models . There was a time when such a purchase was unremarkable. In 1909, … » Read

Reports filtering out from inside the Kennedy Center claim that subscription sales for the coming season’s programming are lagging behind last year’s by about 36 percent, or $1.6 million. For the same length of time in 2024—ten … » Read

WGBH, the Boston-based public radio and television station responsible for classical radio and podcast programming such as Boston Symphony Orchestra and Pops concerts,  Antiques Roadshow , Frontline , and Great Performances , has laid off 45 … » Read

On May 30 PBS filed a federal lawsuit requesting that a court block an executive order signed by Donald Trump four weeks earlier that would cut off funding to public media. The president’s action appears to supersede legislation introduced … » Read