Jaap van Zweden’s six-year tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic comes to a close with the current season, by which time he will have conducted the orchestra in 31 world, U.S., and New York premieres. Numbers 30 and 31 were … » Read

Last week, Tennessee became the first state to adopt legislation protecting musicians from the unauthorized use of artificial intelligence to impersonate an artist’s voice. The Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act, or ELVIS Act, … » Read

ROME (AP) — Italy on Sunday marked the 80th anniversary of one of the most horrific World War II massacres in German-occupied Italy with solemn commemorations and a performance of a symphony honoring the dead. Riccardo Muti was conducting … » Read

The University of Kent—a vast, multi-campus, 20-college research university headquartered in Canterbury, U.K. with a student enrollment of 12,000 full-time, 6,200 part-time, and 600 academic and research staff—has decided to … » Read

ROME (AP) — Maurizio Pollini, a Grammy-winning Italian pianist who performed internationally and frequently at La Scala opera house in Milan, has died. He was 82. Pollini died on Saturday, La Scala said in a statement. The announcement … » Read

This year’s Avery Fisher Career Grantees, each of whom gets $25,000, include two chamber groups at opposite ends of the musical spectrum, two violinists, and a pianist. Decided upon by an A-list of mostly east-coast artistic administrators … » Read

Anyone expecting characteristic JACK quartet fare at the group’s concert on March 15—say, something like Helmut Lachenmann or John Luther Adams—was in for a big surprise. After the house lights went down at the Brooklyn … » Read

Subscription sales by performing arts organizations had been on the skids for years before the pandemic acted as an accelerant.  They are no longer a major revenue source. Gone are the days when arts groups could rely on subscriptions to … » Read

Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv could be excused were she distracted by the horrific events in her homeland while she leads performances of Puccini’s Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera this spring. After learning of a Russian missile … » Read

Franco Zeffirelli's 1987 staging of Turandot is the Metropolitan Opera’s most lavish production, with an imperial throne, glittery costumes, and 199 people onstage at one time. Last night, however, it was reduced to minimum proportions, … » Read