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

The award-winning Honens Festival returns September 5 to 8, 2019 with four days of extraordinary piano and chamber music. Highlight performances include the Miró Quartet (with Calgary native William Fedkenheuer), award-winning Polish piano … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—A New York judge on Tuesday dismissed portions of a lawsuit filed by former Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine against the company last year. Levine was the Met’s music or artistic director from 1976-2016, … » Read

Rider University’s controversial $40 million deal to sell Westminster Choir College to a Chinese company has hit a new hurdle according to opponents of the plan. The latest revelations suggest that the terms of the contract would allow … » Read

DETROIT—The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Interlochen Center for the Arts announced Monday that they would revive the classic DSO summer residency for the first time since 2006. This year’s events, which take place from July 24 to … » Read

CHICAGO–The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has announced the cancellation of a further week of CSOA-presented programs as the ongoing strike by CSO musicians drags on. Concerts from Tuesday, March 26 through to Tuesday, April 2 at … » Read

It’s probably not that he’s short of friends, but irrepressible violinist Ray Chen is adopting a novel approach in his quest for a duo partner this summer, while at the same time aiming to answer the prayers of anyone who has ever … » Read