NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A new museum two decades in the making is telling the interconnected story of Black musical genres through the lens of American history. The National Museum of African American Music , which opened with a virtual … » Read

The arrival of new leadership often offers the optimal moment for an organization to rebrand itself. The San Francisco Symphony (SFS), which recently saw the retirement of its music director of 25 years, Michael Tilson Thomas, and the employ of … » Read

Between March 13 and the end of November 2020, the Dallas arts organizations lost more than $95mn and wiped out more than 1,000 jobs. The impact on the city’s cultural landscape has been “devastating,” said Jennifer Scripps, … » Read

After being together for 40 years, the players of the Endellion String Quartet—violinists Andrew Watkinson and Ralph de Souza, violist Garfield Jackson, and cellist David Waterman—have decided to disband. The 2019-2020 season was to … » Read

Dartmouth, the Ivy League university based in Hanover, NH, has chosen the Snøhetta architectural firm to design the $75 million expansion of its Hopkins Center for the Arts. “The Hop,” as it is known, dates to 1962 and, … » Read

NY PopsUp, a  festival of hundreds of pop-up performances throughout New York State, is set to launch on Feb. 20. When announcing the program, Gov. Andrew Cuomo noted, “Our arts and cultural industries have been shut down… … » 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 Minnesota Orchestra has reported an $11.7mn operating loss, the largest in its history, for the fiscal year ending on Aug. 31, 2020. This figure is almost $3mn more than the previous year’s $8.8mn loss. The increased deficit came in … » Read

Having avoided the flood of streams last summer with its own, live Bandwagon , the New York Philharmonic’s winter-time response to the pandemic is, inevitably, an on-demand platform NYPhil+. The service mixes newly recorded performances … » Read

The arrival of the Biden administration has raised the hopes of America’s beleaguered performing arts community. Those with a sense of history point to the Great Depression-era Federal Theater Project (FTP) as one example of how the … » Read