Anyone who thinks classical music concerts are stuffy homages to outdated traditions has never seen (and heard) Yuja Wang perform. The 37-year-old superstar has established herself, writes Alex Ross in The New Yorker , as a player who … » Read

Claiming that the group’s “values are inconsistent with Catholic teaching,” the Diocese of Buffalo recently canceled a concert by the Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus scheduled for June 9 at the upcoming Summer Choir Festival … » Read

In Autumn 2024, the English Touring Opera is relocating from its current home base in London to a new hub in Sheffield as part of Arts Council England’s effort to transfer operations of several arts organizations outside the nation’s … » Read

Keitaro Harada, music and artistic director of the Savannah (GA) and “permanent conductor” of the Tokyo Symphony, will add the Dayton (OH) Philharmonic to his CV, with the title of music and artistic director. Along with the Dayton … » Read

Janet Cowperthwaite, who has spent 43 years helping to make the Kronos Quartet one of the music world’s most admired and innovative foursomes, has announced that she will step down next October. Her decision elicited fulsome praise from … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—An uneasy orchestral prelude sets the mood: muffled percussion, brooding woodwinds, anguished strings. The curtain rises and the first voices we hear are of two young men cowering in the shadows. “I … I … » Read

“I have to say, you guys are very brave, showing up to hear a piece that hasn’t been heard in 127 years,” clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson cheerily greeted an audience in Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library & Museum … » Read

The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) has chosen the three-time Grammy Award winning violinist Hilary Hahn as visiting professor for a 12-month period beginning in September 2024. In the press release announcing Hahn’s appointment, Graham … » Read

Hugues Randolph Gall, longtime general director of the Paris Opera, died on May 25 at age 84. Born in Honfleur, Germany, he began his professional career working for several government ministries, before joining the Paris Opera in 1973, first as … » Read

CHICAGO— Before It All Goes Dark , the newest opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, commissioned by the Music of Remembrance organization, is short. A one-act piece, it’s barely 40 minutes long. The musical forces … » Read