For a New Yorker cooped up in a one-bedroom apartment for the last 18 months, a recent visit to the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) in the mountains of Boulder, CO, proved an oasis, with strains of rehearsals by day and concerts by night, emanating … » Read

Things are looking up for the Marian Anderson Historical Society and Museum in South Philadelphia. Severe  flood damage a year ago forced the house to close to the public, but the organization’s CEO, Jillian Patricia Pirtle, tells the … » Read

As arts presenters gear up for the resumption of live performances, safety procedures to protect audiences as well as staff and artists are undergoing careful scrutiny. The recent surge in delta variant cases of Covid-19 has led the San Francisco … » Read

Bloomberg Philanthropies, having already increased its historic support of arts and culture organizations during the pandemic, has devised a new $30 million Digital Accelerator Program to support technical infrastructure among a select group of … » Read

The Toronto City Opera (TCO) has reached an agreement with the Rossini Opera Festival to bring the music of Gioachino Rossini to the Canadian city during the 2021-22 season. Held annually since 1980 for two weeks in August in Pesaro, … » Read

The filmed version of Yuval Sharon’s radical reimagining of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung—Twilight: Gods —will be available for free, on-demand viewing from July 29 through October 29. The sold-out Chicago … » Read

One year ago, the Nashville Symphony announced that it was putting its staff and musicians on furlough through July 31, 2021 . Even Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero wasn’t spared.  At the time, the move seemed drastic; would the … » Read

The Williamstown(MA) Theater Festival’s recent efforts to present Row , a musical by composer-lyricist Dawn Landes and book writer Daniel Goldstein, offers object lessons on the perils of performing out-of-doors in the rainy season and … » Read

The pandemic forced the Opera Festival of Chicago (OFC) to suspend its inaugural season a year ago, but the fledgling company has planned an ambitious slate of performances for this July and August. Committed to programming Italian works rarely … » Read

The long overdue efforts by orchestras and other classical music presenters to diversify their programming often run into difficulties identifying appropriate repertoire. Many works by Black composers remain unpublished, so finding a score, much … » Read