The Shed, set to open this week in the Hudson Yards area of Manhattan, has received an added boost of $25 million gift from hedge fund tycoon Kenneth C. Griffin, bringing the amount raised for the venue to $529 million, toward a $550 million … » Read

In recent years, arts and cultural organizations have often conflated community engagement with audience engagement—understandable, perhaps, but the two are decidedly different. Audience engagement, states a blog from American for the Arts, … » Read

Hong Kong’s Sunbeam Theater, specializing in Cantonese opera, will offer the world premiere of Trump on Show April 12-15; the opera spoofs what is described as the American Creamsicle in Chief. Playwright Edward Li Kui-ming, who runs the … » Read

The presence (and absence) of women in classical music, while long evident, is attracting increased scrutiny. If a growing number of females have found their way into orchestras, female conductors remain a rarity. The New York Philharmonic, for … » Read

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA) has cancelled all concerts through April 9, as the musicians’ strike enters week four with no further negotiations scheduled. On the CSO website , President Jeff Alexander explains that the two … » Read

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Southern Californian broadcaster Classical KUSC continue their annual radio broadcast partnership starting in April. The 13 concerts recorded across the orchestra's  2018/19 Centennial … » Read

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON—The Bard Music Festival has announced that its 30 th Anniversary Season will explore the life and times of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the onetime Viennese boy wonder who went on to become the musical architect of the … » Read

BOSTON—The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2019/20 season with a plan to celebrate Music Director Andris Nelsons’s fifth anniversary at the orchestra’s helm. Highlights include Jonas Kaufmann returning to … » Read

PRINCETON—New Jersey’s Attorney General has thrown several wrenches in the works of Rider University’s controversial attempt to sell Westminster Choir College to a Chinese for-profit company. The opinion comes hot on the heels … » Read

The Edinburgh International Festival has announced its program for summer 2019, which includes the prestigious European premiere of John Adams’s new piano concerto, Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? The Los Angeles Philharmonic, who … » Read