Although his tenure as music director will last another 15 months or so, the autopsy of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s time with the San Francisco Symphony has already begun. What “all began so promisingly,” writes Joshua Kosman in the San … » Read

Aribert Reimann, who adapted serialism to create his own language, died on March 13 in Berlin, the city where he had been born into a musical family. He was 88. Trained as a lieder accompanist from an early age, a skill he would deploy on … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Byron Janis, a renowned American concert pianist and composer who broke barriers as a Cold War era culture ambassador and later overcame severe arthritis that nearly robbed him of his playing abilities, has died. He was 95. … » Read

It’s not new news that the arts are in trouble, especially in the wake of the pandemic. In fact, it is fair to say that the arts almost always seem to exist amid exigent circumstances, the result of generally indifferent public funding … » Read

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker, who took office on Jan. 1, has tapped Valerie Gay to be the city’s new arts and culture czar. City arts leaders greeted the appointment as well as the mayor’s apparent intention to elevate the … » Read

Barry Hughson, executive director of the National Ballet of Canada for the last decade, is to take the same post at the American Ballet Theatre as of July 1. ABT, annual budget of $45 million, is said to be the third largest ballet company in … » Read

Just weeks after the public release of plans for a new $275 million concert hall for the Columbus Symphony, Denise Rehg has announced her plans to step down as the ensemble’s executive director in August. To all appearances this is a purely … » Read

Just on the heels of winning the Polar Music Prize , Esa-Pekka Salonen has announced his decision not to renew his original five-year contract as music director of the San Francisco Symphony when it expires at the end of next season. He informed … » Read

James Conlon will step down as music director of the LA Opera at the end of the 2025-26 season, ending a 20-year run that will have spanned half the company’s history. Conlon made the announcement Wednesday, five days before his 74th … » Read

Neuköllner Oper , known as Berlin’s “fourth” opera house and certainly the most experimental of the pack, has announced the departure of Bernhard Glocksin, in 2025, after 20 years in the job. He is to be succeeded by Rainer … » Read