Stanley Drucker, the legendary clarinetist who joined the New York Philharmonic at age 19 in 1948 and didn’t retire until 60 years later, died on December 20 in Vista, CA, outside of San Diego. He was 93. Named principal by Music Director … » Read

Anastasia Tsioulcas , a staff cultural correspondent for NPR, joined The New York Times’s free-lance classical music reviewing staff last month. She remains full-time at NPR as well. Previously, Tsioulcas, originally from Boston, was editor … » Read

No question that, among young conductors today, Klaus Mäkelä is the hottest. He leads the Oslo Philharmonic and the Orchestre de Paris, and in 2027 will become chief conductor of the Concertgebouw. And Decca has released an entire cycle … » Read

City of London Sinfonia (CLS), now its 51 st season, has a new CEO arriving in April 2023. The 40-member chamber orchestra, founded and overseen by Richard Hickox until his death in 2008, performs 75 concerts annually, in a range of venues … » Read

Research by Help Musicians, an independent charity in the U.K., has found that 67 percent of people in the country “could not live without music” and 45 percent believe it is “part of their DNA.” Ironically, nearly half of … » Read

The Virginia Symphony Orchestra (VSO) has a new president and CEO in Andrea F. Warren, in the job since earlier this month. She succeeds Karen M. Philion, who announced in April that she would be leaving after over a decade in the job. It was … » Read

The past year in classical music has been dominated by the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Major institutions,” writes Alex Ross in The New Yorker , “finally began to extricate themselves from the sticky … » Read

The Voice of Black Opera Awards -- open to Black and South Asian singers from Commonwealth countries and sponsored jointly by the British Black Classical Foundation and Welsh National Opera (WNO)— ended in Birmingham, U.K., on December 6. … » Read

Among the reasons for the decline in music education, the often-prohibitive cost of musical instruments is near the top of the list. Now the Montreal-based AVIVA Young Artists Program is offering a solution designed to place instruments within … » Read

Some 450 composers, musicians, educators, and arts leaders have signed a letter to Juilliard calling for the school to take disciplinary action against composer and department chair Robert Beaser for alleged “decades-long abuse of women and … » Read