Next season will be Andris Nelsons’s 11 th as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s music director, and the orchestra positions his weeks in town as the year’s highlights: The complete Beethoven Symphonies, performed on consecutive … » Read

The House of Chanel, that very chic brand of haute couture, jewelry, fragrances, et al., has a “Culture Fund,” out of which it biennially recognizes “ten international contemporary artists who are redefining their … » Read

With an official release date of April 12, Pentatone has recorded Paul Moravec’s ambitious operatic adaptation of Stephen King’s 1977 novel The Shining . The story concerns Jack Torrance, a writer and recovering alcoholic who brings … » Read

NEA Jazz master violinist Regina Carter [pictured] has joined the faculty of UCLA’s Herb Albert School of Music. As of next fall, she’ll teach jazz performance and history and urban musical culture; she’ll also work with … » Read

Tilman Michael, chorus master of the Frankfurt Opera for the past ten seasons, will succeed Donald Palumbo as chorus director of the Metropolitan Opera, effective with the 2024-25 season and arriving next summer to prepare. Palumbo, 75, announced … » Read

“I keep concerts short, because a lot of the music that I write is quite introspective, and I think it kind of unfair to make people suffer,” Roger Eno cheerily informed an audience assembled on a recent Friday night at National … » Read

Will Liverman follows up 2021’s Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers with an ambitious and equally impressive double disc Show Me the Way . An all-female composer program is echoed in the American baritone’s choice of a … » Read

That a 28-year-old inexperienced and oversubscribed Finnish conductor will steer the course of two of the world’s most important orchestras come 2027—the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra—has … » Read

After 22 years, the Miami Lyric Opera is closing.  Although not so indicated on its website, South Florida Classical Review reports the news, quoting company founder/general and artistic director Raffaele Cardone as saying “The … » Read

Every few months someone in the classical music firmament is moved to express, often apologetically, their love for Sergei Rachmaninoff’s 2 nd Piano Concerto. The latest entrant, Ben Lawrence writing in The Telegraph , reports that for the … » Read