Ryan Fleur is the new president and CEO of the Philadelphia Orchestra, moving into the role permanently after nearly four months as interim. He succeeds Mathías Tarnopolsky, now president and CEO of the NY Phil, and with whom Fleur … » Read

Leadership changes are underway at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. In Los Angeles, Michael Beckerman has been named as the new dean of the Herb Alpert School as of Oct. 1. He arrives … » Read

In 2012 three Romanian art thieves stole seven paintings and drawings signed by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, Gauguin, Lucian Freud, and Meyer de Haan from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam. The three were caught and in 2013 confessed to the theft in a … » Read

Musicalizing difficult subject matter can pose tough challenges. These two recordings are good examples of when composers get it right. Songs in Flight Shawn E. Okpebholo’s Songs in Flight was inspired by Freedom on the Move, a database … » Read

After a year of negotiations aimed at maintaining the Welsh National Opera (WNO) as a full-time company and stopping a proposed 15 percent pay cut to the orchestra, 97 percent of the musicians of the Welsh National Opera (WNO) have voted to … » Read

LOS ANGELES—Carlos Simon’s Good News Mass , a de facto 50-minute symphonic gospel service combining aspects of the Catholic Mass and Pentecostal fervor, had its world premiere at Walt Disney Concert Hall on April 17. A co-commission … » Read

The Jacksonville (FL) Symphony has announced a $3 million gift from the Terry Family Foundation, the ensemble’s third multi-million-dollar gift in the past five months. Previous donations of $5 million and $3 million were received in … » Read

James Santilli, former chief marketing officer for the Pittsburgh Penguins, is the new senior VP and “Chief Revenue and Experience Officer” (CREO) for the Pittsburgh Symphony. He will plot strategies to generate revenue and … » Read

“It’s frustrating... just gone overnight.” This terse lament from a student at Jacksonville University (JU) sums up the feelings of students impacted by the April 15 announcement of a dramatic reconfiguring of the school’s … » Read

The reduction of the professional staff at the Kennedy Center by the new management team continued on April 18, when at least six people were laid off. Details are unclear, but confirmed as out are Derek Johnson, vice president of marketing; … » Read