The final outcome of the ongoing Westminster Choir College-for-sale-to-China debate is anybody’s guess, but NPR provides a fairly comprehensive description of the predicament and the players. The story so far is that Rider University, which … » Read

For three nights in early December, the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, located on 9 th Avenue in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, will host Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors . First produced for television in 1951, the … » Read

Things are looking up for the Hartford (CT) Symphony Orchestra, which three years ago faced near extinction until the musicians accepted a substantial pay cut . The orchestra also appointed its own executive director in Stephen Collins , giving … » Read

DETROIT — Patricia Hall went to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in 2016 hoping to learn more about the music performed by prisoners in World War II death camps. The University of Michigan music theory professor heard there were manuscripts, … » Read

MIT has received what it characterizes as a “cornerstone gift” to build a new state-of-the-art music facility. Its centerpiece is to be a “purpose-built performance lab” for experimental and unusual projects, with flexible … » Read

Michael Bloomberg’s extraordinary  gift of $1.8 billion to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, will benefit the school’s conservatory, the Peabody Institute of Music, to the tune of $50 million. In a letter addressed to the … » Read

The University of Hull and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) have announced an expanded partnership on several community projects, including Strokestra, a three-year experiment using music to help people recovering from strokes. Going … » Read

The San Francisco Symphony and its musicians have reached a contract agreement one week before the current one expires. Current base salary is $3200 a week; by the end of the new four-year agreement, that number will reach $3570 a week. The new … » Read

In a speech before the Association of Colleges’ annual conference in the U.K., Amanda Spielman, chief inspector for the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) recently claimed that colleges that … » Read

This year the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) will renew its decade-long tradition of presenting a chamber opera on the weekend following Thanksgiving. La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina , by the Florentine singer and … » Read