The Indianapolis Symphony, which has been struggling to reach a  peace of some kind with its musicians, has cancelled the coming season. The musicians and management issued a joint statement Friday afternoon: While our mutual desire is to … » Read

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has cancelled most of its fall 2020 concerts but, unlike the majority of its colleagues, has opted to hold out for the holidays, announcing that it will resume events after November 29. (Most U.S. ensembles … » Read

The Los Angeles Master Chorale has introduced a new twist to pandemic-induced season cancellations. Rather than discarding months of hard work spent planning its 2020-21 season, the group is simply postponing everything for a year. The first … » Read

German scientists are readying an experiment in Leipzig to try to determine how to prevent Covid-19 from spreading at large indoor concerts. The Restart-19 project, costing €990,000 ($1.14mn), is recruiting volunteers for a … » Read

Following represents Part II of last week's A Helping Hand for Classical Music Journalism. David Stull, president of the San Francisco Conservatory, which now administers the The Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, is a native of Cincinnati and … » Read

Like the rest of the UK’s concert venues, the Barbican has been shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. But on July 20, Huw Humphreys, Barbican’s head of music, announced, “Live music will return to the Barbican this … » 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

NANTES, France (AP) — French officials launched an arson inquiry Saturday after a fire broke out in the famed Gothic Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of the western French city of Nantes. The blaze destroyed the organ, shattered stained … » Read

The Shed, which opened with grand fanfare in April 2019 as a hotbed of cutting-edge avant-gardism, is struggling. It was already having trouble before the pandemic, its all brand new offerings occasionally praised by critics, but hardly the stuff … » Read

Since the lockdown forced it to abandon live performances on March 12, the Metropolitan Opera has been among the most proactive and inventive among performing arts organizations in making its presence felt online worldwide. Its free nightly … » Read