Since 2020 is the year devoted to all things Beethoven, it comes as no surprise that accounts of his supposed illegitimate daughter are receiving renewed attention. Maria Theresia Selma Arria Cornelia Minona—later known as Minona von … » Read

The Minnesota Orchestra has cancelled the remainder of its spring season, through June 15, and postponed its Summer at Orchestra Hall 2020 events by one year. At the same time, it is adding four weeks of concerts in August and September 2020, … » Read

The San Francisco Opera has been forced to cancel its entire summer season, 18 performances of three operas--Verdi’s Ernani , Handel’s Partenope , and Mason Bates and Mark Campbell’s The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs— … » Read

The Grange Park Opera has announced plans for a 2024 production of Krishna , a never-before-performed opera by Sir John Tavener. The largely unknown opera, completed in 2005, exists only in manuscript form. Prince Charles, a friend of the … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera is to take its nightly HD encore streams—which the company says have reached “4 million viewers” since they were launched March 16—to the next level. Scheduled for 1 pm EDT on April 25, the newly … » Read

Individual artists and small to midsize organizations with annual budgets of less than $15m will be eligible for emergency relief from the newly created COVID-19 Arts Aid PHL fund. A three-pronged partnership among Philadelphia’s Office of … » Read

Mark Pemberton, director of the Association of British Orchestras (ABO), has recently made a compelling case for much greater governmental support for the UK’s musicians and symphony orchestras as they fight to survive the coronavirus … » Read

Upper Manhattan’s venerable community music school, the Bloomingdale School of Music, is about to receive some much-deserved exposure on NBC’s George to the Rescue . “George” is George Oliphant, Emmy award-winning host of … » Read

Like many of their pandemic-plagued colleagues around the world, the 88 musicians that comprise the Seattle Symphony will be out of work temporarily beginning April 13. With programming suspended through May 31, the orchestra was facing losses of … » Read

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has canceled the remainder of its 2019-20 season, moving its closing date up from May 10. CEO Chad Smith estimates losses at about $10 million, also the amount that his counterpart at the New York Philharmonic (and … » Read