This week the San Francisco Symphony will present plans to city planners for a dramatic makeover of the organization’s 44-year-old Davies Hall. If realized, the makeover would expand the building’s ground floor, relocate and enlarge … » Read

Last weekend at Tanglewood, in his first time conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Gaffigan declared himself “completely blown away” after their first rehearsal together. Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 was on the music desk. … » Read

Having recently  launched a “music creation” track toward a new BS in Music Production, Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music has developed another new BS focus area, this one in Music Business, a collaboration with … » Read

Seventeen-year-old Julin Cheung [pictured] will officially join the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as the new assistant principal flute and piccolo player next April, when he graduates from Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music. He began … » Read

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill.—Matthew Polenzani. Tamara Wilson. Samantha Hankey. Andrea Carroll. Those names aren’t off a Met marquee. They comprised the principal cast of Ravinia’s Idomeneo , directed by James Conlon in a concert version … » Read

A new $5 million gift from The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation to the Cleveland Orchestra will support the Kelvin Smith Family Chair currently held by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. The Austrian maestro, who has announced his plans to … » Read

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived Auschwitz because she could play the cello. Born in 1925 to a German-Jewish family living in what is today Wroclaw, Poland, she and her two sisters played chamber music together as children. When she was arrested … » Read

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson’s phone rang in his Icelandic highlands cabin back in January 2022. Katharina Wagner, the Bayreuth festival director and great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, wanted to … » Read

Less than a year from now, Esa-Pekka Salonen will become one of the most sought-after free agents in the world of classical music. His decision not to renew his contract with the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) when it expires in 2025 due to his … » Read

SANTA CRUZ, Ca—It took a while for the ever-adventurous Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music to get back in its old groove, what with the 2020 and 2021 seasons relegated to online and the 2022 comeback partially disrupted by an outbreak … » Read