A new $5 million gift from The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation to the Cleveland Orchestra will support the Kelvin Smith Family Chair currently held by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. The Austrian maestro, who has announced his plans to … » Read

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) has cancelled a performance of works by Mozart and Brahms by the Australian-British pianist Jayson Gillham [pictured], scheduled for Aug. 15, due to “a series of introductory remarks” he made at … » Read

The Glimmerglass Festival’s 50 th -anniversary season, scheduled to run from July 11 through August 17, 2025, will offer a world premiere, two house premieres, and a revival of Francesca Zambello’s production of Odyssey , the … » Read

The Colburn School has received a $16.6 million gift from the Chicago-based Negaunee Foundation to endow in perpetuity the Conservatory of Music’s Negaunee Conducting Program, led by composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. The program was … » Read

The LOUD Weekend has been the culminating event of the Bang on a Can (BOAC) Summer Music Festival for the past 22 years. Based at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA., the three-week professional development program gathers 40 young musicians and five … » Read

Before the end of apartheid in 1994, opera in South African was largely a niche performing art for white audiences, with white singers brought in from abroad. Now black casts perform European classics in a distinctive manner that resonates with … » Read

A new report issued by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council (GPAC) has re-examined the distribution of arts funding among racial groups in the region. GPAC’s 2018 report, “Racial Equity and Arts Funding in Greater Pittsburgh,” … » Read

The Florida Orchestra has been a nomad for its 56-year existence, occupying inadequate office space in St. Petersburg and spreading its seven-month season of concerts among the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, Tampa’s Straz Center for … » Read

Apple Music Classical is introducing a weekly Classical Top 100 chart that will factor in streams on Classical and Apple Music proper, iTunes, song sales, and Shazam tags (an app that enables the listener to identify a musical selection on the … » Read

The management and musicians of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) have reached a new five-year labor agreement, to take effect on Sept. 9, which offers competitive salary increases, flexible scheduling, and new audition and tenure policies. … » Read