On Aug. 29 and 30 the Chicago Opera Theater (COT) will partner with the Refugee Orchestra Project to present “Voices of Refuge” to remind listeners of the important role refugees have played in our musical life. The series of four … » Read

The Knoxville (TN) Symphony Orchestra, which, under normal circumstances employs 80 AFM musicians and performs about 300 programs annually (ranging from neighborhood events to playing in any one of three concert venues), has cancelled its fall … » Read

The New York Philharmonic is going back to work. But unlike Detroit, Dallas, Philadelphia, and a number of other major orchestras, its musicians won’t be six-feet apart on a concert stage, playing to an empty or partially full audience and … » Read

Amid the proliferation of online digital music presentations during the pandemic, The Impossible Orchestra’s 10-minute performance of Arturo Marquez’s Danzon No. 2 may be unique. The inspiration of the Mexican-American conductor … » Read

In a judgment worthy of Solomon, and likely to please neither side, the BBC has reached a decision regarding the inclusion of a slate of traditional patriotic songs during the Last Night of the Proms. Finnish conductor (and BBC Symphony Orchestra … » Read

On Oct. 22, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) will launch  OAE Player, a digital platform offering newly recorded performances. For the first 24 hours, viewers can watch on a “pay-want-you-want” basis; thereafter … » Read

The Detroit Symphony will join the slow migration back to the concert hall in the fall, announcing a new, all-digital season in Orchestra Hall through December and marking the players' first return to the stage since March. The audience will … » Read

BERLIN (AP) — Germany held a pop concert Saturday to see how those attending could spread coronavirus if they had it. German researchers studying COVID-19 packed part of a Leipzig arena with volunteers, collecting data in a “real … » Read

The Scottish Opera is taking to the out-of-doors. In September the company will present a series of 25-minute “pop-up opera” roadshows around the country in a specially adapted trailer and portable stage. Simultaneously it will stage … » Read

How do you train young artists in the midst of a pandemic? University arts programs and conservatories all over the U.S. are struggling to devise answers to what Brian Cole, chancellor of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts … » Read