Yannick Nézet-Séguin, recently deemed by Bachtrack to be the world’s busiest conductor, will open a premiere-packed season on Sept. 24 in Marian Anderson Hall. Now in his 15 th season as the Philadelphia Orchestra’s … » Read

Gustavo Dudamel is certainly getting a hero’s welcome as he becomes music and artistic director of the New York Philharmonic next season. Tuesday night, he led the orchestra in his (and its) debut at Radio City Music Hall, complete with … » Read

The Kennedy Center is once again without a programming chief. Kevin Couch, onetime programming director for ATG Entertainment, was announced on January 16 as VP of programming for KC . Less than two weeks later, he resigned, despite being … » Read

LONDON—On paper, this January 23 BBC Symphony Orchestra concert at London’s Barbican Centre was a smart piece of programming. Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring , located at the verdant heart of an American idyll soon to be … » Read

Four American chamber works of contrasting styles will open the Chamber Music Society’s 2026-27 season on October 13, 2026, in a program designed to honor the nation’s 250 th . First up are three of William Bolcom’s most popular … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—Mark Morris is one of, if not the single most prolific modern dance maker on earth, so it was probably only a matter of time before he sought other worlds to conquer. Moon , which had its West Coast premiere January 23-25 at … » Read

A recent study by a labor economist offers a rejoinder to the oft-heard plaint that opera is dying. In a report compiled from financial data collected by Opera America, Christos Makridis concluded in the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—With Finnish conductor John Storgårds making his San Francisco Symphony debut on January 22 and a work by Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen on the Davies Symphony Hall program, it was hard not to think of the Finn who got … » Read

NEW YORK—Thomas Adès was 28 when the New York Philharmonic first programmed his music on a major subscription concert. Commissioned by the orchestra as part of a series marking the threshold of a new millennium, America: A Prophecy … » Read

With Philip Glass pulling the premiere of his 15 th Symphony, Lincoln , from the National Symphony Orchestra’s schedule and Renée Fleming canceling her May concert with the orchestra just days before, the NSO is suffering multiple … » Read