Taking a page from the artistic and technological success of its Online Gala, said to have broadened its donor reach by 30,000, the Metropolitan Opera has announced a new, live concert series featuring some of its top artists. The especially good … » Read

The Oregon Symphony has been forced to cancel its fall season due to the pandemic, having already laid off its orchestra and much of its staff last March . The plan is to return to business as usual in January, although finances indicate that may … » Read

Beginning on August 1, the VOCES8 Foundation will be presenting a 10-week online festival of choral music broadcast in HD from the VOCES8 Center. Live from London will feature some of the world’s most accomplished vocal ensembles performing … » Read

Beginning Saturday, July 11, the UK launches stage three of its reopening plan for the live entertainment industry. "This is an important milestone for our performing artists,” Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden told the BBC. "Of course, we … » Read

Following health officials’ guidelines, Kansas City’s Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, closed since March, will remain shuttered through December 31. This impacts the KC Symphony, KC Ballet, KC Lyric Opera, and the Harriman … » Read

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, historically one of the largest supporters of the performing arts, has announced a shift in focus to social justice under its president of two years, Elizabeth Alexander. That, however, apparently does not mean a … » Read

The pandemic is producing all sorts of innovative responses from musicians eager to perform. The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) has chosen one of the most unusual yet—a benefit concert at the YUL Montreal-Trudeau … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the country’s oldest retreats for artists — The MacDowell Colony — will drop “Colony” from its name and call itself “MacDowell.” “This name change is at once a … » Read

On the same day that the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) reported 569 new COVID-19 cases, the highest number in over a month, the Minnesota Orchestra announced the cancellation of the four weeks of concerts it had scheduled for August and … » Read

Black composers are too often assumed to write little beyond jazz, blues, and rap—music said to “exemplify” the Black experience. But as the composer and musicologist George Lewis argues in The New York Times , “A cone of … » Read