On May 22 Angela Dixon is to become the new chair of the Royal Philharmonic Society succeeding 14-year incumbent Sir John Gilhooly, artistic and executive director of Wigmore Hall. Dixon, currently CEO at Saffron Hall, studied music at the … » Read

There is both good and bad news on the post-pandemic recovery of the arts. First the good: Jennifer Sowinski Nemeth, in a detailed 2023 report for JCA Arts Marketing, “Music organizations have seen stronger sales post-pandemic relative to … » Read

The most competitive slot among music conservatory enrollment is probably that of the tuba student at Curtis Institute of Music. In any given year, only one of the school’s 160 enrollees is studying the instrument, and over the past 100 … » Read

If ever there was a perfect illustration of technology destroying creativity, it is Apple’s ad for the newest iPads, titled, appropriately, Crush! , and originally slated to air on broadcast TV. In it, a massive hydraulic press is shown … » Read

Three years after opening the much-heralded indoor/outdoor Rady Shell at the city’s picturesque bay waterfront, the San Diego Symphony will take up residency in its newly refurbished concert hall at the Jacobs Music Center, a two-year, $125 … » Read

The Palm Beach Opera did not have to look very far to find its new general director, James Barbato, who has been its director of artistic administration for the past five years. Barbato has served in an acting capacity since his predecessor, … » Read

The Merola Opera Program has hired Sean Waugh, consultant and onetime artistic planning manager for the San Francisco Opera (SFO), as its new executive director. He succeeds Jean Kellogg, who stepped down last January after 12 years in the job. … » Read

In March the American Youth Symphony (AYS) abruptly closed its doors . The end of the six-decade-old orchestra, which drew its members from USC, UCLA, the Colburn School and, increasingly, public schools, prompted a search for the causes and … » Read

Residing at opposite ends of the state, both the Pittsburgh Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra have recently launched efforts to engage new audiences. And while the projects share many of the same features, their differing successes may reside … » Read

One of the biggest, coolest, most important new music events in New York, the three-day Long Play Festival is a 21st-century universe, the complicated elements of which perhaps can't be fully appreciated until something goes wrong. On the final … » Read