The Cleveland Orchestra has cancelled its tour of Europe and Abu Dhabi, scheduled for March 16 through April 5. Seven concerts were on the itinerary, one each in Linz’s Brucknerhaus, Vienna’s Musikverein, and the Philharmonie de … » Read

San Francisco Mayor London N. Breed has called for the closure of the War Memorial Performing Arts Center, including Davies Symphony Hall, home of the San Francisco Symphony and the SF Ballet. Effective March 7 all performances have been … » Read

A New Jersey Superior Court has tossed out two lawsuits challenging the legality of Rider University’s attempts to merge Westminster Choir College (WCC) operations with Rider’s. WCC and Rider merged in 1991, and for the  last … » Read

On June 4, 5, and 6, the Berlin Philharmonic will honor the late Mariss Jansons, who died on Dec. 1. The Latvian maestro, an honorary member of the orchestra, had been scheduled to conduct on those dates. “Mariss Jansons . . . was a highly … » Read

The National Concert Hall in Taipei shut down indefinitely today after visiting Australian composer Brett Dean [pictured] was diagnosed with coronavirus on his return to Brisbane. He is being treated in a hospital in Adelaide. Some of the … » Read

Composer/conductor John Adams is to be the music director for the 2021 Ojai Festival (June 10-13, 2021), the event’s official 75 th anniversary and Adams’s second term as music director (his first was in 1993). He replaces the … » Read

MILAN--As northern Italy struggles to contain the local coronavirus outbreak— now the third largest in the world—entire towns have been cordoned off (including Cremona, the home of Stradivarius, is in partial lockdown ). On February … » Read

As it becomes increasingly common for large performance organizations to endow their top executive’s position, the San Francisco Opera general director post—occupied since 2016 by Matthew Shilvock--is to be named for Tad and Dianne … » Read

Financial difficulties have led two Chicago-area classical ensembles—the Lake Forest Symphony and the Park Ridge Civic Orchestra—to cancel their 2019-2020 schedules. Timothy Corpus, executive director of the Lake Forest Symphony, … » Read

In what was to have been its first international tour under Gianandrea Noseda’s music directorship, the National Symphony Orchestra has cancelled the rest of its March concerts in Asia. Earlier this month, it cancelled the China … » Read