NEW YORK (AP) — Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer, and actor who garnered 10 Tony nominations, winning twice, in a long Broadway career that forged a path for Latina artists and shrugged off a near-fatal car accident, died Tuesday. … » Read

Paul Hindemith’s Kammermusik No. 1 , the first work on the Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble’s January 22 Weill Hall program, opens with an agitated cacophony, all swirling sixteenth notes and trumpet fanfares. Two nights earlier, the … » Read

In August Carnegie Hall will host World Orchestra Week (WOW), a gathering of youth orchestras from five continents, for a series of concerts with major soloists led by high profile conductors. Inspired by Carnegie’s three critically … » Read

NEW ORLEANS (AP)—Branford Marsalis, the jazz saxophonist and composer whose career includes movie scores, Grammy-winning recordings, and a stint as the leader of The Tonight Show band, is taking on a new job in his hometown of New Orleans. … » Read

The past year ended on a much happier note for the BBC Singers than it began. In early March the BBC announced that the choral group would be disbanded in order to enable the media giant to invest “more widely in the future of choral … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—The Los Angeles Opera has scrapped plans for the world premiere of Mason Bates's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay next fall because of finances. The work will instead open with a student cast at Indiana … » Read

BOSTON—The primary hero of the BSO’s January 25 th performance of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is the composer himself. His second of only two operas (the first was his surrealist comedy, The Nose ) is a circus of … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—When concertgoers made their way into the main entrance of Davies Symphony Hall on Friday, January 26, they did so via MTT Way , the newly named stretch of Grove Street that honors the San Francisco Symphony’s longtime … » Read

The Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) has announced several new appointments to its artistic leadership team, chief among which is Nina Yoshida Nelsen as artistic director. She succeeds Esther Nelson, who until March 2021 held the position of general and … » Read

In late March 2024 John Kilkenny will join the New York Youth Symphony (NYYS) as executive director, succeeding Shauna Quill, who was in the position for 12 years. Kilkenny joins the NYYS from the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera and the Sewanee … » Read