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More Podium Management Shifts

October 22, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Ukrainian conductor Olha Dondyk , 21, has joined the roster of HarrisonParrott for worldwide general management. She was previously with Interartists in Amsterdam. Dondyk is the assistant conductor of the Orchestre de Paris under Klaus … » Read
 

Contests & Awards

American Pianist Wins the 'Chopin Games'

October 22, 2025 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
American Eric Lu won the gold medal and €60,000 at the XIX International Chopin Competition in Warsaw on Monday. The 28-year-old artist bested ten other finalists from seven countries in an event that Ivan Hewett, classical music critic for … » Read
 

Industry News

Mann Center Gets Highmarked

October 22, 2025 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park will henceforth be known as the Highmark Mann, in recognition of the Pittsburgh-based insurance company’s purchase of naming rights for an undisclosed sum. The … » Read
 

People in the News

Misty Copeland Makes Her Grand Exit

October 22, 2025 | Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Misty Copeland hangs up her pointe shoes tonight, putting a final exclamation point on a trailblazing career in which she became an ambassador for diversity in the very white world of ballet—and a crossover star far … » Read
 

Industry News

B'way Musicians Poised to Strike

October 21, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Broadway musicians of Local 802 AFM are rattling their collective sword, stating they will call an “immediate” strike if they don’t have a satisfactory contract agreement with the producers in the Broadway League by Thursday … » Read
 

Reviews

J. Williams: 22 CDs and It's Only Vol. I

October 21, 2025 | Clive Paget, Musical America
LONDON—Scoring films is a 20th-century art, its form and function laid down in part by European emigrees, many of them Jewish, who sought sanctuary in the U.S. before, during, and after WWII. The man today who carries the torch once borne … » Read
 

Industry News

Brooklyn Conservatory Breaks Ground on $16M Expansion

October 21, 2025 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (BKCM) has broken ground for a new Park Slope campus that will double its capacity to provide music therapy and education. The new 12,000-sq.-ft.-foot facility at One Prospect Park West will house 13 … » Read
 

Industry News

Children's Picture Book as Opera

October 21, 2025 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
Since 2013, the San Francisco-based Opera Parallèle has produced six new operas through its Hands-on-Opera program. Each new production provides opportunities for various communities to serve as chorus members, young singers to gain … » Read
 

Reviews

Blue Moon: A Page of the American Songbook

October 21, 2025 | Jake Coyle, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP)—For a filmmaker once synonymous with slackerdom, Richard Linklater has proven to be one of the most prodigious and consistently excellent American filmmakers. A small but rich vein of the two dozen features he’s made … » Read
 

Reviews

Mäkelä & the CSO: Good Omens

October 20, 2025 | Wynne Delacoma, Musical America
CHICAGO—Klaus Mäkelä doesn’t officially become the Chicago Symphony’s music director until fall 2027. On October 20 as “designate,” he opened the first set of three programs he will conduct this season at … » Read
 
 

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