The dance programming team at the Kennedy Center under Trump’s control has been fired. One of its members had been at the helm of the effort to unionize employees at the beleaguered institution. As a result of the firings, Tony Yoon, a … » Read

Austrian businessman Bernhard Fleischer, founder and owner of Bernard Fleischer Moving Images (BFMI), is to be the next CEO of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. BFMI has recorded hundreds of international classical music and dance performances, artist … » Read

LONDON—Frederick Delius’s A Mass of Life is his longest, most ambitious concert work. For many, it is also his magnum opus, exploring over 100 minutes cosmic ideas of humanity, eternity, and the soul. And yet it’s hardly ever … » Read

University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has 25 new faculty members arriving for the 2025–26 school year, including 12 full-time and 13 adjunct and visiting, in the Schools of  Dance, Design and Production, Drama, … » Read

Calby Van Hollebeke, a Master of Arts candidate at Washington State University’s (WSU) School of Music, grew up on a farm and is very aware of the hard work that goes into the annual harvest. Her memories of summers with her family spent in … » Read

As the war between Russia and Ukraine grinds on, Keri-Lynn Wilson and the members of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra (UFO), which she organized in the spring of 2022, admit that their project may be the victim of compassion fatigue. … » Read

The Trump administration’s gutting of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) as well as National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) has the potential to create a “doom loop.” As … » Read

Chicago Sinfonietta section cellist Lindsey Sharpe will move into the principal chair this season, succeeding the orchestra’s founding principal cello Ann Griffin, who moves to coprincipal. Sharpe has been for the last four years a … » Read

After nearly a year of negotiation and intermittent labor action, the Welsh National Opera (WNO) and the company’s chorus, represented by Equity, have agreed on a new full-time contract that provides “a competitive, industry-standard … » Read

This year the only full Stateside staging of Wagner’s complete Ring of the Nibelungen is being presented in Brattleboro, Vt. TUNDI Productions, founded in 2018 by soprano Jenna Rae and conductor Hugh Keelan, defies Wagnerian expectations. … » Read