It is difficult to watch Trump’s bully policies taking hold. Fearful that Florida’s Orange County would lose other federal funding, Cultural Affairs Administrator Vicki Landon has “suspended” any and all grants that would … » Read

Columbia University School of the Arts has named composer Tania León as the 2025 recipient of the William Schuman Award, which includes an unrestricted grant of $75,000. She is the tenth recipient of an award established in 1981 to … » Read

In Giancarlo Guerrero’s 16 th and final season as its music director , the Nashville Symphony is said to be in bad financial shape, with eight employees having been laid off in the last week, additional to the layoffs reported last summer . … » Read

The need to defend classical music has become particularly acute in the past few decades. Critics vigorously question the justification of spending millions of dollars to preserve opera companies or orchestras largely dedicated to performing what … » Read

Yale School of Music has received $7 million from the Dunard Fund USA, enabling it to create two new music professorships, one for viola and one for a visiting professor in the practice of music. The viola professorship, a $3 million gift, will … » Read

Barbara Lynne Jamison, current general director & CEO of Kentucky Opera, is to take the same post with Opera Colorado, effective August 1. She succeeds Greg Carpenter, who exits May 30 after two decades with the company. Holding a … » Read

Christopher Jenkins is to succeed Brian Pertl as dean of Lawrence University’s  Conservatory of Music, in Appleton, WI. He starts July 1. Pertl, in the job 17 years, is headed to a similar position at Lamont School of Music at the … » Read

As of January 2026, Roberto Abbado will begin a three-year term as artistic director of the Korean National Symphony Orchestra (KNSO). The Italian maestro succeeds David Reiland, in the post since 2020. Abbado’s two previous collaborations … » Read

The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, now in its 80 th year, has tapped Janet Reihle as its new president and executive director. A native Mississippian, she will also oversee the orchestra’s Premier Orchestral Institute (P0I) and Summer … » Read

The disco ball on the Plaza isn’t going away, nor the dance floor and (very) loudspeakers that tower over the makeshift stage. But by now, in its fourth annual iteration, Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City (June 11-August 9) is … » Read