The New York Philharmonic is tapping into the China market big time, announcing today the launch of a four-year program in 2014 that sees the orchestra in a series of teaching and performing residencies in Shanghai, in partnership with the … » Read

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, ever so costly to build ($470 million, six years ago) continues to be ever so costly to maintain, with much of the burden shouldered by local tax payers. The Center already gets $7.65 million … » Read

Miami's $470 million Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, opened in 2006 after years of delays and cost overruns (and, initially, without a parking facility), is in need of repair -- $5 million worth. A thunderstorm on May 20 caused a … » Read

Meet the Composer and the American Music Center, two New York based organizations whose missions address the creation and dissemination of music by American composers, have announced their plan to merge into a single entity to be called New Music … » Read

The bad news, as previously reported , is that the Concert Association of Florida has filed for bankruptcy. The good news, as reported Friday on South Florida Classical Review , is that the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts has picked … » Read

BOLOGNA -- What is now to become of Opera di Roma? After three months of dogged fight, the Fondazione has been beheaded by a decree from the national Minister for Culture Sandro Bondi, signed April 3. The board of governors has been dissolved, … » Read

MIAMI – The much-maligned Miami-Dade Performing Arts Center, 20 months behind schedule and $67.7 million over budget, has gotten yet another transfusion from the county, this one intended to complete construction. The Center, originally … » Read

MIAMI -- The building boom in national performing arts centers continues unabated, despite such well-documented horror stories as the Miami-Dade Performing Arts Center. Latest overruns there are estimated at $67 million, bringing the total cost … » Read

PHILADELPHIA – After over 100 years in the Academy of Music, The Philadelphia Orchestra played its last concert there Wednesday night. Its next one will be in Verizon Hall, its new home at the new, $265 million Kimmel Center for the Performing … » Read

BERLIN -- Less than a week after the opening of this year's mystical annual sectarian rite in a provincial little Bavarian town of only 73,000 residents, the July 30 issue of Germany's leading newsmagazine Der Spiegel devotes a 14-page cover … » Read