The Manchester (VT) Music Festival will have new leadership in place for its 50 th -anniversary season in the summer of 2024. As of October 1, 2023, Philip Setzer, violinist in the soon-to-retire Emerson String Quartet, takes the post of the … » Read

On June 30 EveR6, a human-like android robot, will join conductor Choi Soo-yeol on the podium of the National Orchestra of Korea for the country’s first robot-led musical performance. Created by the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology … » Read

For one hundred years the San Francisco Opera has been central to the city’s cultural life, a role celebrated with a gala concert at the War Memorial Opera House on June 6. The evening mixed sentiment with passionate music making, as vocal … » Read

CHICAGO—In April 1991 Georg Solti wrapped up his 22-year tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with two blockbuster programs: a concert version of Verdi’s complete Otello with a cast headed by Luciano Pavarotti … » Read

LONDON—On November 3, 1973, a 20-year-old Oxbridge organ scholar by the name of Peter Phillips conducted a group of lay clerks (professional church singers) and choral scholars in a concert of Renaissance music in St. Mary Magdalen's … » Read

Tulsa Opera has cancelled its two mainstage performances for 2023-24, The Pirates of Penzance in October and La Traviata in May. The announcement, coming on the heels of its 75 th- anniversary season, appeared on its website last week, along with … » Read

The Los Angeles Children’s Chorus , a vast music training program with seven choirs and a number of Grammy wins and nominations to its credit, has brought Kurt J. Swanson on board as interim executive director. He succeeds Andrew Bradford, … » Read

After four-years of planning and construction, the Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University will open for student use in September, with the first public performance scheduled on October 21. Created in response to the need for a … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony- and Grammy Award-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who with composer Jerry Bock made up the premier musical-theater songwriting duos of the 1950s and 1960s with shows such as Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello!, and The … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—Ferruccio Busoni, Italian born but spiritually German, is one of the odder ducks in the great aviary of classical music. In his lifetime he was known primarily as a pianist, maybe the greatest since Liszt, but he provoked … » Read