Over the past decade in the U.K., two organizations have been at work rehoming abandoned pipe organs and pianos. The Pianodrome Company , formed in 2017 by Tim Vincent-Smith and Matthew Wright, has paired the construction of an amphitheater made … » Read

Will they or won’t they? The 32 AGMA members in the San Francisco Symphony Chorus—aka “ringers”—have said they will strike as a “last resort” if the orchestra carries through with its plan, which, they … » Read

HOLLYWOOD—Gustavo Dudamel didn’t drop by Hollywood Bowl until the last two weeks of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s summer season. But when he did, he brought with him a bewilderingly eclectic series of six programs, the last of … » Read

The resignation of CFO Sylvia Romo on Sept. 12, the day before the opening of the San Antonio Philharmonic’s season, is the latest in a string of unsettling departures from the three-year-old organization. Of ten staff members listed in the … » Read

R. Peter Munves, who revolutionized the marketing of classical music, died on Aug. 19 at age 97. Born in Manhattan in 1927, Munves graduated from Syracuse University and went to work in a record store before being hired in 1953 as a producer with … » Read

To the hundreds of artists on its starry roster, HarrisonParrott  will add nine of the 11 artists signed to Solea Management, which it has acquired. Solea’s Head and Founder Romain Blondel will move his Paris-based operations to HP … » Read

As it enters its 25 th -anniversary season, the Concord (MA) Chamber Music Society (CCMS) announces new leadership, effective at the end of 2024-25. Succeeding founder Wendy Putnam, a violinist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, are violinist … » Read

The first concert of the New York Philharmonic’s new season, on Sept. 12, was conducted by an eminent maestro associated with the West Coast. It was not the orchestra’s music director-elect, Gustavo Dudamel, nor was the event … » Read

Soprano Angela Gheorghiu has doubled down, aggressively justifying her disruptive behavior during tenor Alfred Kim’s encore of “E lucevan le stelle” in Tosca at the Sejong Arts Center in Seoul last week. She had stepped onstage … » Read

On the eve of Cristian Macelaru’s season as its music director designate, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) has announced the appointment of eight new musicians. They arrive on the heels of a new five-year labor agreement that took … » Read