As the new music director of the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H), Jonathan Cohen lives a somewhat peripatetic existence. The 45-year-old Briton makes his home in London, where his 12-year-old son lives, but finds himself on an airplane frequently. … » Read

The Cleveland Institute of Music’s high-profile faculty remain in the news with the resignation of Michael Sachs, principal trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra and chair of the CIM brass department. His exit follows the recent leave taken by … » Read

Bowing to public outcry from thousands of arts fans and claims of racism by a few key practitioners, North Carolina radio station and NPR affiliate WCPE yesterday reversed its decision—or, rather, that of its General Manager Deborah S. … » Read

In writing about what transpired on September 29 at David Geffen Hall in New York City, some allusion to calamitous conditions and nature’s fury feels obligatory: “Joshua Bell confronts The Elements— and so does his … » Read

The recent performance of an abridged version of Jake Hegge’s Dead Man Walking at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. was years in the making. Joyce DiDonato, who portrays Sister Helen Prejean in the Met’s season-opening … » Read

Central City Opera, which came close to losing its entire summer season due to  thorny AGMA negotiations that went on for more than six months, has named Scott Finlay as its new president and CEO. He succeeds Pamela Pantos, who exited rather … » Read

There seem to be “multiple Nosedas,” suggests critic David Patrick Stearns when scrutinizing the space(s) conductor Gianandrea Noseda (Musical America’s 2015 Conductor of the Year ) currently occupies in the classical music … » Read

The 77th annual Tony Awards will be held at the soaring David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on the Upper West Side, organizers said Wednesday, moving the celebration of Broadway brilliance to the performing arts complex for the first time. … » Read

The 2023 crop of MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant recipients, each of whom receives $800,000, includes two composers. Raven Chacon [pictured], 45 and from Red Hook, NY, is cited as “a composer and artist whose performances … » Read

CHICAGO— “The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. There is hardly a moment in between.” Those words are Gertrude Stein’s, first delivered nearly a century ago in a lecture at … » Read