LONDON—With the exception of his Cantus Arcticus , the music of Einojuhani Rautavaara has been unfairly neglected outside of his native Finland in the ten years since his death in 2016. It was rewarding, then, to hear the first of his three … » Read

LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Opera was among the first opera companies in North America to present all three of Philip Glass’s “portrait operas,”  Einstein on the Beach (2013), Akhnaten (2016), and Satyagraha … » Read

There is an trend among symphony orchestras toward presenting semi-staged or concert operas. Certainly they cost less than in the opera house, which require the full complement of sets, costumes, lighting, and other stage business. There can also … » Read

The 2026-27 season for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO), the seventh for Fabio Luisi as music director, features one-night appearances by Lang Lang, Yo-Yo Ma, organist Anna Lapwood, and Broadway star Idina Menzel; a first-time ever performance … » Read

The new symphony by Philip Glass, originally scheduled to have its first hearing with the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in June, will instead premiere with a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on July 5 as part of a four-day … » Read

Dalia Stasevska is one of the busiest guest conductors in the world, moving with ease between opera houses and orchestra halls. The daughter of a Ukrainian father and a Finnish mother, she was born in Kyiv but grew up from age five in Finland and … » Read

New York Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani has appointed Diya Vij, 40, as Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA). In announcing her selection, Mayor Mamdani said, “This administration believes art is a public good, not a luxury … » Read

Composers, even those most attuned to music’s future, are constantly in conversation with the past. This past weekend, the New York Philharmonic presented a program bound together by musical allusion, direct and indirect, one composer to … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — A high-stakes antitrust trial that could lead to the possible breakup of Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, got underway Tuesday in a case over whether the entertainment giant’s dominance of the concert … » Read

Howard Herring will close his quarter-of-a-century as president and CEO of the New World Symphony in June. His accomplishments at the helm of “America’s Orchestral Academy (NWS)” have been remarkable, not least for securing the … » Read