CHICAGO--The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Thursday named 25 people, including academics, activists, artists, scholars and scientists, who will receive $625,000 over five years to use as they please. The Chicago-based … » Read

Klaus Mäkelä, 22-year-old principal guest conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, is to be the new chief conductor and artistic advisor of Oslo Philharmonic. His three-year contract begins in August … » Read

Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber, recent Musical America Rising Star, has just announced his third new appointment in the calendar year 2018. The latest is chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, effective in September 2019. The 36-year-old … » Read

American conductor Case Scaglione is to be the new music director and principal conductor of the Île-de-France National Orchestra, starting in September 2019. He will succeed Enrique Mazzola, in the job from 2012. Scaglione, onetime … » Read

Violinist Joshua Bell was back in Washington, D.C., yesterday, only this time he wasn’t busking in a metro station as he did in a since-much-cited experiment back in 2007. This time, he was attempting to bring a little peace to the ongoing … » Read

As part of Macy’s marketing campaign “2018 is the year of the woman,” Buffalo Philharmonic Music Director JoAnn Falletta was featured last month as one of six “Remarkable Women” in a series of videos ads. "We're … » Read

Nicholas McGegan will retire as music director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale (PBO) at the end of the 2019-20 season. The British conductor will have served at the artistic helm of the PBO for 35 of its … » Read

Pianist Igor Levit and conductor Antonello Manacorda [pictured] have joined the 22-member roster of Classic Concerts Management (CCM) for worldwide management. Managing them at CCM will be Kristin Schuster, also coming from IMG, where she was a … » Read

Maurice Ravel [pictured] was 53 when he wrote Bolero . For listeners driven to distraction by the iconic composition’s repetition of two main themes eight times, it may come as no surprise that about the same time he composed the work, his … » Read

PARIS--Charles Aznavour, the French crooner and actor whose performing career spanned eight decades and who endeared himself to fans around the world with his versatile tenor, lush lyrics and kinetic stage presence, has died. He was 94. One of … » Read