Forced out of their assorted venues and onto the web, On-Site Opera and Beth Morrison Projects have taken their pre-pandemic mandate to expand the artform to the next level. Washington Post music critic Michael Andor Brodeur is impressed. Founded … » Read

The U.K.’s official break from the European Union is scarcely two weeks old and a dispute about visa-free touring is already roiling the British music world. Press accounts report that Boris Johnson’s Tory government has rejected an … » 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

The pandemic’s devastating impact on the creative arts is lending a long-absent vitality to the concept of an “arts worker.“ The idea that everyone from an orchestra musician to a museum curator, a ballet dancer to a fashion … » Read

Prompted by the pandemic, organizations and artists have sought to stream their performances from their individual platforms, sometimes for a fee, more often, not. While Medici.TV and the Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall have been … » Read

Over the last two weeks (thank goodness) of 2020, Musical America ran a series about ten U.S. and U.K. organizations that we felt had pivoted the most gracefully, creatively, and imaginatively during the pandemic. In the tradition of making … » Read

On Jan. 6 the Chinese classical music licensing, subscription, and education services company Kuke Music Holding announced terms for its IPO (initial public offering). In 2019, the Beijing-based company, founded in 2017, was China’s largest … » Read

Choirs may be silenced for the near future by the pandemic, but there is some light at the end of the tunnel—far off though it may be. In July of 2024, choirs from around the world are scheduled to arrive in Auckland, New Zealand for the 13 … » Read

Things tend to be big in Texas, and that includes the concert halls that host the major orchestras. The Houston Symphony plays in a 2,900-seat house, and both the Fort Worth and Dallas symphonies perform in venues that seat more than 2,000. … » Read

The Recording Grammy, forced to  postpone the Grammy Awards scheduled for January 31, 2021 in Los Angeles, due to the spread of Covid-19, has chosen to move the event to March 14th. That’s also the date of the SAG-AFTRA awards, another … » Read