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

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music has appointed Michael Tilson Thomas as its first and only distinguished professor of music, effective next fall. His term begins concurrent with the release of a boxed set devoted to new and previously … » Read

In what may be the worst-kept secret about the world’s youngest, most oversubscribed music director, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has named 28-year-old Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä to succeed the legendary Riccardo Muti as its … » Read

The St. Thomas Choir School, the 105-year-old residential school for boys between the ages of 8 and 14 drawn from across the nation, is in danger of closing within the next 15 months unless its financial underpinnings can be strengthened. Based … » Read

Choral Arts Society of Washington, D.C., its 60 th anniversary coming in 2025, has announced Marie Bucoy-Calavan as its next artistic director as of next season. She succeeds Jace Kaholokula Saplan who left after 18 months in the job. Saplan is … » Read

A second opera company in the U.K. is facing the prospect of seeing its orchestra members going part-time due to budget cuts. Like the orchestra musicians of English National Opera, who were recently forced to swallow a contract providing only … » Read

One of today’s most performed young composers, is an unapologetic advocate for the power of melody. “I find emotional connection through melody…. I think it’s a way to connect human beings,” Anna Clyne tells … » Read