The Song Company, Australia’s self-anointed national vocal ensemble, has a busy season of Renaissance music performances ahead, notwithstanding the continuing pandemic. Plans call for both Salon concerts and Close Up recitals—intimate … » Read

Florida’s arts and cultural organizations will receive $26.7mn in state funding in the 2021-22 budget year. Although the amount represents a 24 percent increase over the previous year’s grants, the total still falls well short of the … » Read

French cafes, cultural venues, and businesses that have been closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic will reopen in several phases from May 19, President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday, as he announced a four-stage calendar for reopening the country. … » Read

The New York Philharmonic is taking to the streets again, this time moving up from last summer’s pickup model to a monster truck with a 20-foot shipping container that opens out into a stage. The orchestra calls it NY Phil Bandwagon 2 , … » Read

On May 1 and 2, renowned mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves will return to Tulsa, the site of her first professional engagement, to headline "Greenwood Overcomes" marking the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The program of music by living … » Read

The experience of a group of elite young cellists at the Scandinavian Cello School in Denmark suggests that humans are not alone in missing live music during the pandemic. When cellist Jacob Shaw quit touring internationally to establish the … » Read

The gremlins are reportedly gone, and the website for the Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) has been up and running smoothly since Monday. The original opening date was April 8, but, bringing to mind the … » Read

The Bolshoi Theater has cancelled all tours through March of 2022. The cause is the pandemic, but not its threat to the safety and well-being of company members. Rather, the cause is concern among foreign presenters that the vaccine Russia has … » Read

Theater producer Cameron MacIntosh has issued a ringing defense of his decision to cut the size of the pit orchestra in half—from 27 to 14 musicians—when The Phantom of the Opera returns to London’s West End in early June. … » Read

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is offering an ambitious spring program of performances on CSOtv and other digital platforms. Among them are four new episodes of CSO Sessions, two new episodes in the CSO for Kids series, and three releases in the … » Read