The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has announced a five-year plan to achieve financial sustainability, greater artistic excellence, and broader community engagement. Developed with input from former Senator Ed Kasemeyer, Chairman of the State … » Read

When the Sphinx Organization began in the 1990s, the African American and Latinx presence in American symphony orchestras was minimal; representation in each group hovered around 1 or 1.5 percent. When the League of American Orchestras published … » Read

Radio New Zealand (RNZ) has beat a hasty retreat from plans announced last week to remove Concert , its classical music broadcast, from its FM frequency and replace it with youth-oriented programming . Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern admitted to … » Read

Did the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic announce their 2020-21 seasons on adjacent days on purpose? Perhaps Lincoln Center’s biggest real-estate holders aren’t in touch; in any case, it’s a lot of important … » Read

Two years from now the New York Philharmonic will be an orchestra on the move, literally, as the reconstruction of David Geffen formerly Avery Fisher formerly Philharmonic hall gets underway. In the meantime, it continues its forward momentum … » Read

Sweden’s annual Polar Music Prize, worth one million Swedish Kronor (US $110,000) for each recipient, this year goes to soprano Anna Netrebko and pop songwriter Diane Warren. Founded in 1989 and derived from an endowment left by the late … » Read

Plans announced by Radio New Zealand (RNZ) to move Concert —its signature classical music program—to an AM frequency and downgrade its content has stirred up a hornet’s nest of protest. Opera legend Dame Kiri Te Kanawa labelled … » Read

Come July 10, the San Diego Symphony will have a new summer outdoor concert venue—the $45m Shell located on the bayfront in the downtown Embarcadero Marina Park South. The new facility includes a 13,015-sq.-ft. outdoor stage covered by a … » Read

The Hong Kong Arts Festival , one of the events in which the Boston Symphony Orchestra was scheduled to perform before calling off its tour of East Asia, has finally announced its cancellation, due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. Still … » Read

As promised at the time it cancelled its East Asia tour , due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will fill the time by performing locally. A series of “pop-up” events is planned for February 6-16 with 28 … » Read