The La Jolla Music Society today announced the opening weekend concerts for its new home, The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center (The Conrad). On April 5, 6, and 7, 2019, the $82 million, 49,000-square-foot complex, named for founding donors … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Ever since the musical Hamilton began its march to near-universal infatuation, one group has noticeably withheld its applause: historians. Many academics argue the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the star of our $10 bills, … » Read

The Foundation Center and GuideStar, two information resources for non-profit institutions, announced their merger to create Candid. The name, says a press release, “means that we value being up front and honest above all else . . . [and] … » Read

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has unveiled programming for the first season of its Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI), a series of public talks, master classes, film screenings, and workshops scheduled for the $33 million, four-building Linde … » Read

Never mind Beethoven’s 250 th anniversary. The important milestone this year and next is the centennial of the 19 th amendment, giving women the right to vote. It was ratified in 1919 and went into effect in 1920, its 100th anniversary … » Read

The trustees of Marlboro Music and Marlboro College have reached an agreement to continue and strengthen a relationship begun in 1951 for another 99 years. A key component of the new agreement between the world-renowned summer classical music … » Read

Why? That’s the question one might well ask when learning that Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications behemoth under suspicion of breaking trade sanctions against Iran and stealing trade secrets, has “finished” Schubert’s … » Read

From Bingo to Bartók , a new report published by the London based not-for-profit Orchestras Live and the City of London Sinfonia, highlights how classical music is being used to support the wellbeing of older people by countering the … » Read

A new partnership between Nonesuch and New Amsterdam Records promises to focus on recording music by “several generations of American composers.” The first composers are Caroline Shaw, LA-based Daniel Wohl, and William Brittelle, one … » Read

CHICAGO—It’s probably inevitable, and not entirely unwelcome, that a music director would want to perform a complete cycle of the Beethoven symphonies with his home orchestra. The 2019-20 season marks Riccardo Muti’s 10 th year … » Read