The third annual Cultural Infrastructure Index reveals that $8b was spent on the construction of 148 new museums and cultural institutions in 2018. This figure represents an almost 20 percent drop from last year’s total of $9.9b , which … » Read

Just to ensure major confusion among Baltimorians, the Baltimore Symphony musicians yesterday announced a free concert for the afternoon of September 14—not to be confused with the official Baltimore Symphony season opener (or … » Read

The Westminster Foundation--the group of alumni and faculty that has been most vigilant in the effort to keep Westminster Choir College alive and well and continuing to operate on its longtime Princeton campus—has announced a … » Read

The Portland (OR) Opera is abandoning its experiment of moving the season to the summer months and going back to its longtime fall to spring schedule. Sue Dixon, external affairs chief who has been serving as interim since general director … » Read

The Los Angeles Music Center—whose resident companies are the LA Opera, LA Philharmonic, LA Master Chorale, the Center Theater Group, and Glrya Kaufman Dance—has received a gift of $12 million, toward making its programming … » Read

Further developments in streaming classical music —apart from new services like Idagio and Primephonic that are actually designed for the genre—include better sound quality. But to take advantage of it, you will need to keep using … » Read

San Antonio Symphony musicians are getting a raise—of about six percent over the next three years. By 2022, the starting salary will be $35,774. The orchestra performs about 15 classical programs a year, each for two nights, along with … » Read

For a time, it looked as if the Alaska State Council on the Arts would be one of the many victims of Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s [pictured] “scorched earth” budget policies. Zeroed out in the initial round of budget vetoes … » Read

The film industry in Brazil is under attack by the right-wing government of President Jair Bolsonaro (pictured). The country’s Minister of Citizenship, Omar Terra, has suspended applications for government funding of television projects for … » Read

The release of a number of movies about musicians—Aretha Franklin, Freddie Mercury, Elton John, among others—over the past year led The Guardian to compile its own list of the 30 best films about music and musicians. The newspaper … » Read