NEW YORK (AP) — Ann Reinking, the Tony Award-winning choreographer, actress, and Bob Fosse collaborator who helped spread a cool, muscular hybrid of jazz and burlesque movement to Broadway and beyond, has died. She was 71. Reinking died … » Read

Americans for the Arts (AFTA), the nation’s top lobbying group on behalf of arts and culture, has come under fire from former employees and its own advisory council for failing to address issues ranging from lack of diversity to sexual … » Read

Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber--chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, music director of the Teatro Massimo Palermo, principal guest of the Semperoper Dresden—will add yet another post in the 2022-23 season. Concurrent with Lotte de … » Read

It’s been just over 18 months since R. Douglas Sheldon, better known simply as Doug, left Columbia Artists as it chairman and just over three months since that onetime behemoth of a classical music agency subsequently went belly up . Now … » Read

Vince Ford, VP of digital strategy and customer experience at the New York Philharmonic, will join the Curtis Institute of Music of February 1, signaling a major step forward in its commitment to media and technology as educational imperatives. … » Read

Women conductors are the Next Big Thing for American orchestras. Yesterday, the Philadelphia Orchestra announced Nathalie Stutzman as principal guest conductor as of next season. Today, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra announces Franco-British … » Read

Pianist Richard Goode is to join the Peabody Conservatory’s distinguished artist faculty full-time as of the 2021-22 academic year. Goode, widely acknowledged as a top interpreter of the classical canon, has in the past conducted master … » Read

Noah Creshevsky, a deeply resourceful and imaginative electronic composer, died at his home in New York City on December 3 at the age of 75. He had been suffering from cancer. He leaves behind his husband, David Sachs, and myriad colleagues who … » Read

Bob Dylan’s entire catalog of songs, which spans 60 years, is being acquired by Universal Music Publishing Group. The deal covers copyrights to 600 songs, including “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “The Times They Are … » Read

One of Canada’s renowned early music vocalists, soprano Suzie LeBlanc, has been selected as the next artistic and executive director of Early Music Vancouver. She succeeds Matthew White, who held the position for seven seasons before … » Read