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

LONDON – What British rock and roll musicians did for the U.S. music scene in the Sixties, American classical musicians are now doing for the British music scene. Or so it would appear. An article in The Guardian points out that there are now six … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stephen Wadsworth hasn't had a day off in weeks, and that may be good news for the first-place Seattle Mariners. The American stage director is in the final throes of overseeing the Seattle Opera's new production of Wagner's … » Read

ATLANTA – Pierre Ruhe has done some laudable sleuthing in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, blowing the cover of “composer” Tristan Foison. Active in the Atlanta area since 1987 as a composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher, Foison was first … » Read

On July 24, MusicalAmerica.com posted an Associated Press Wire story entitled "Puccini March Premiered Today," . The article related how a San Diego State University music professor had “discovered” the two-minute, "long-forgotten" Puccini march … » Read

ST. LOUIS, Missouri – Rumors that the Saint Louis Symphony is having financial difficulties turn out to be dead-on factual. In an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sarah Bryan-Miller writes that, at this point, the orchestra has only three … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fighting to regain readers, newspapers are increasing their interaction with the public by offering everything from new designs to reporters' e-mail addresses. "The greatest writing in the world won't make a whit of … » Read

TEL AVIV – On Wednesday, Zubin Mehta called a special news conference here to denounce the decision made by the Knesset Education Committee to characterize Daniel Barenboim as a “cultural persona non grata in Israel.” [See ”Israelis Urge Boycott … » Read