In unveiling the 2024-25 season, the New York Philharmonic continues to herald the arrival of Gustavo Dudamel as its next music director, even though his tenure doesn’t begin until the fall of 2026. Next season has him on the podium for … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—Hours after the stunning news broke that Esa-Pekka Salonen would be stepping down as music director of the San Francisco Symphony, effective at the end of his five-year contract in June of 2025, he took the podium at Davies … » Read

On St. Patrick’s Day the Metropolitan Opera announced the five winners of the 2024 Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. The 70-year-old competition, once known as the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, attracted more than … » Read

The stench emanating from Arts Council England’s decision in November 2022 to dramatically cut funding for the nation’s leading opera companies refuses to dissipate, due in no small part to the agency’s  continuing assault … » Read

Although his tenure as music director will last another 15 months or so, the autopsy of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s time with the San Francisco Symphony has already begun. What “all began so promisingly,” writes Joshua Kosman in the San … » Read

On paper, the program for the Takács Quartet’s recent 92nd Street Y appearance was unremarkable: standard works by Haydn and Beethoven sandwiching a piece of new music. But the March 13 concert carried no trace of routine, … » Read

Aribert Reimann, who adapted serialism to create his own language, died on March 13 in Berlin, the city where he had been born into a musical family. He was 88. Trained as a lieder accompanist from an early age, a skill he would deploy on … » Read

The Los Angeles-based American Youth Symphony pulled the plug last week after a 59-year run. “Despite our best efforts, the challenges of maintaining our operations have become insurmountable,” said Board Chairman Kevin Dretzka in a … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Byron Janis, a renowned American concert pianist and composer who broke barriers as a Cold War era culture ambassador and later overcame severe arthritis that nearly robbed him of his playing abilities, has died. He was 95. … » Read

Alexei Ratmansky’s first new work as artist-in-residence of the New York City Ballet stands apart from his internationally acclaimed body of work. Neither a reconstruction of a full-length ballet nor an innovative treatment of codified … » Read