The Sphinx Organization’s annual confab, “SphinxConnect,” is to be held January 25-27 in the Detroit Marriott Rennaissance Center. This year’s model, "Amplify 2024,"  boasts over 30 sessions by three times as many … » Read

Recently released operating results for fiscal year 2022-23 as well as season highlights paint a rosy picture for the Cleveland Orchestra. For the fifth full operating year the budget balanced, with total revenues and expenses of $61.3 million … » Read

Austrian clarinetist and conductor Andreas Ottensamer has signed with Askonas Holt. Ottensamer, principal clarinet of the Berlin Philharmonic since 2011, was previously with Merlin Artist Management for his instrument and Hilbert Artists … » Read

The Syracuse Opera has cancelled the remainder of its 2023-24 season. “Like many opera companies across the country,” board chair Camille Tisdel told members on Nov. 17, “ticket sales have been considerably lower than projected … » Read

Partnerships of symphony orchestras with pop and rock musicians are hardly new—Procol Harum and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra produced a best-selling album in 1972. And S&M , the recording of the 1999 collaboration between Metallica … » Read

The latest example of classical music’s commitment to performing extant works by underrepresented composers is illustrated in the New York Philharmonic’s Nov. 22-25 program, which includes Julia Perry’s 1951 Stabat Mater for … » Read

It is easy to understand why Florencia en el Amazonas has held the stage in the years since its 1996 Houston Grand Opera premiere. Daniel Catán’s rapturous score, with its echoes of midcentury Hollywood, sweeps us up the Amazon on … » Read

The Bolshoi Theater together with the entire Russian artistic community was thrown into turmoil last week, when several outlets, including Izvestia and Russian Forbes , reported that Valery Gergiev was to become artistic director of both the … » Read

David Del Tredici, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning “instinctual” approach to composing flew in the face of most post–World War II musical trends, died in New York City on Nov. 18 at 86. Born in California in 1937, Del Tredici was … » Read

While the London Symphony Orchestra will likely receive top orchestral billing, they are not the only featured ensemble in Maestro , Bradley Cooper’s forthcoming cinematic homage to Leonard Bernstein. Also on the bill are the young … » Read