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

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s veto of a $32 million grant program of the state’s Division of Arts and Culture is forcing the state’s arts organizations to think outside the box as they seek to recoup the lost public funding. … » Read

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 inspired Keri-Lynn Wilson, the Canadian-Ukrainian conductor, and her husband, Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb, to set about creating the well-publicized Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra. … » Read

Not since Joseph Stalin’s reign has the Russian government instituted such draconian controls on the nation’s artists and cultural establishment. For many the only answer has been to leave; those who stay must strike a nationalist … » Read

Soprano Anna Netrebko is scheduled to give a recital at the Palm Beach Opera for its gala on Feb. 3 in what would be her first U.S. appearance in six years. Considered the world’s top soprano, Netrebko was dropped by the Metropolitan Opera … » Read