Live music returns to Davies Symphony Hall on May 6, when music director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the San Francisco Symphony (SFO) in a concert for first responders, health professionals, and community and cultural leaders. Weekly programs, 75 … » Read

We will be updating this list weekly. Please note that all times are given in U.S. Eastern Time (ET). To calculate in other time zones or counties, British Summer Time (BST) is currently five hours ahead of ET and Central European Time (CET) is … » Read

Researchers at the University of Montreal have been working with some 50 faculty members and advanced students to ascertain which forearm muscles are the most vulnerable to the stress and fatigue that can cause tendonitis and other malignancies. … » Read

On April 23, an adaptation of The Barber of Seville announced the return to live performance by the San Francisco Opera. The experience, writes Joshua Kosman for the San Francisco Chronicle , “felt like awakening from a fever dream.” … » Read

Lincoln Center has rolled out the May programming for Restart Stages, utilizing ten “performance spaces” it will create on campus, all of them out of doors. When first announced in February, Restart Stages was to have representation … » Read

As of Thursday, April 22, two weeks after the Small Business Administration (SBA) was to begin processing applications from independent music venues and theaters for $16bn in federal pandemic relief, the agency’s website is still not … » Read

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will offer a mix of in-person and digital performances this spring and summer. Free outdoor events begin May 27 and continue through Oct. 2. Held at Millennium Stage, the programs are multicultural and … » Read

If all goes according to plan between now and then—and it’s a big if—many of Britain’s performance halls will be allowed to open, generally at half volume, on May 17. Last week, Wigmore Hall was first out of the gate, … » Read

There seems no end to accounts of the difficulties associated with Brexit emanating from the U.K., even though most music venues on the continent and in the U.K. are still closed due to Covid-19. The stress and cost associated with work … » Read

A new focus on podcasting is one of the few positive outcomes of the pandemic for the classical music world. Those established for some time—cross-genre superstar Rhiannon Giddens’ Aria Code or conductor Joshua Weilerstein’s … » Read