On June 12 David Israelite, President and CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), announced that revenues for 2023 totaled $6.21 billion, a 10.74 percent increase from the previous year. “Despite the many challenges … » Read

The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) rules allow streaming services to pay out a lower rate for “bundled services” than for stand-alone music services. By adding 15 hours of audiobook time per month to its premium music subscription … » Read

Suzanne Wilson will succeed Tony Beadle as president and CEO of Rockport (MA) Music as of July 1; she arrives after time in London with family, having previously served a brief term at the helm of the Phoenix Symphony and, before that, seven … » Read

Krzysztof Urbánski takes on two new key roles as of 2024-25: chief conductor of Switzerland’s Berner Symphonieorchester and music and artistic director of Warsaw Philharmonic, an orchestra he knows well having served as its assistant … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra has a new first associate concertmaster in Liyuan Xie , who arrives in the job just one year after he joined the orchestra’s second violin section as a recent graduate of the New England Conservatory. He succeeds … » Read

This summer the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra will begin a three-year residency in the German city of Monheim am Rhein. Since February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the orchestra had found a temporary home in Gera, located in central Germany, … » Read

The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s recent concert at London’s Barbican Center left one veteran music critic yearning for some “real musical satisfaction.” In a program that tried to do too much, writes Ian Hewitt in The … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera sold 72% of its available tickets this season, up from 66% in 2022-23 and an increase from 61% from its first season following the pandemic. Box office remained down from 75% in 2018-19 and a projected … » Read

LONDON—The 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings offered plenty of opportunities here in the U.K to hear Elgar’s Nimrod , a piece of music regularly associated with national remembrance. Equally inviting was a chance to hear it in … » Read

Within the last two months, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has announced six new faculty members, most of them effective as of August 1. Vincent Carbone is the exception, starting July 1 as academic specialist and managing director … » Read