Conductor/composer Yaniv Segal (pictured) is to be the next music director of the Salina (KS) Symphony; he was one of five finalists for the job who guest conducted this season for a post that drew more than 100 applications. Known for his … » Read

The co-chair of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center has given $3 million to the former to endow its principal guest conductor chair, occupied by French contralto/conductor Nathalie Stutzmann, 57. The current season is the first of the … » Read

Michael Tilson Thomas’s impact on the musical life of Miami has been profound. For 35 years he was artistic director of the New World Symphony, the ensemble he co-founded as a launching pad for young classical musicians. The plaudits MTT … » Read

Pianist Alexander Toradze, who suffered heart failure during a performance with the Vancouver Symphony on April 23 but carried on to its end before being hospitalized, died yesterday at this home in South Bend, IN. He was 69. He appeared to have … » Read

Symphony San Jose, formerly Symphony Silicon Valley, formerly San Jose Symphony, has named Robert Massey as its general director. He is to succeed the 20-year-old ensemble’s founder Andrew Bales, who is retiring. Massey's most recent … » Read

After 27 years, Amy Kaiser has retired as director of the St. Louis Symphony Chorus. She had been a free-lance choral conductor in New York for more than a decade when Leonard Slatkin hired her in 1995. Since then, she has worked with his three … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s silver tea set is going to a family with a five-year-old daughter who once went as Ginsburg for Halloween. A medal Ginsburg was awarded when inducted into the National Women’s Hall … » Read

Molly Carr is to succeed the late Roger Tapping as the violist of the Juilliard String Quartet, now in its 75 th -anniversary season. Carr, a much-acclaimed free-lancer who performs and records regularly with Anna Petrova as the Carr-Petrova Duo, … » Read

Does the Metropolitan Opera’s decision to fire Anna Netrebko violate New York State law? Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz seems to think it does. “The law of New York and many other jurisdictions prohibits employment discrimination … » Read

Plato Karayanis, whose 23 years as general director of the Dallas Opera proved transformative, died on April 29 at his Santa Fe home. He was 93. Born in Pittsburgh to Greek immigrants, Karayanis studied voice at Carnegie Mellon University and … » Read