Carnegie Hall has announced that its performing arts streaming service Carnegie Hall+ , currently available on the Apple TV app, Spectrum, Verizon Fios, DISH, Sling TV, and Astound, is now also available in the U.S. on Amazon’s Prime Video … » Read

With the start of the new academic year, Patrick Warfield has begun his tenure as director of the School of Music (SoM) in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) at the University of Minnesota. With an undergraduate degree in music education from … » Read

“As a musician, you know, you’d like to find the kind of music that is so powerful it can stop a bomb from falling, or stop bullets from killing people,” a youthful David Harrington says in an old TV interview excerpted by … » Read

Student concerns about the administration’s handling of a Title IX complaint against a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music have morphed into calls that the institution’s president and board chair resign. Two hundred … » Read

On Aug. 31 three former musicians of the North Carolina Symphony filed suit against the orchestra , its president and CEO, and the state’s Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. The plaintiffs—Chris Caudill, Rachel … » Read

Helen Wallace is to be the new head of music at London’s Barbican Center, effective in February of 2024. She succeeds Will Gompertz, who this past August announced he would leave the Barbican after a three-year tenure to become director of … » Read

NAPLES, Italy—Rossini’s tragic opera Maometto Secondo was largely forgotten following its Neapolitan premiere in 1820, although other European cities took it up and, as revised and renamed Le Siège de Corinthe , it became … » Read

On Nov. 5 Silkroad Ensemble launched the tour of American Railroad: A Musical Journey of Reclamation , its most ambitious project to date and the first under the leadership of Rhiannon Giddens, who succeeded Yo-Yo Ma as artistic director in 2020. … » Read

BEIJING (AP) — The Philadelphia Orchestra returned to Beijing on Tuesday for a tour that will mark 50 years since its historic performance in China, the latest sign of improving ties between the two countries ahead of a highly anticipated … » Read

Lovers of Italian opera in the U.S. need not travel to Italy to engage first-hand with two of its most iconic contributors to the art form—Teatro alla Scala and the late tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Last month, the Milan house hosted the … » Read