In response to financial pressures, New England Public Media has moved its daytime classical music programs to the NEPM News Network, a family of broadcast frequencies with a smaller area of coverage, to dedicate its main radio signals to news … » Read

It is proving well-nigh impossible to kill symphonic music in San Antonio, the nation’s seventh largest city. The San Antonio Philharmonic, which emerged from the ashes of the defunct San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, is set to launch its … » Read

In 2014 Nicholas Collon [pictured], co-founder and conductor of the London-based Aurora Orchestra, decided to see what would happen if the chamber ensemble’s musicians committed a piece to memory and performed it without sheet music. The … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO — John Zorn is a unique, proudly unclassifiable musician. His music spans classical, jazz, film, and klezmer, using notated and improvised scores mostly collaborative or orchestral but occasionally solo. He has been influenced … » Read

In a lawsuit filed in federal court, three former members of the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra claim that they were fired for their refusal to get vaccinated against Covid on religious grounds. The Center for American Liberty, a Pittsburgh … » Read

Donald Runnicles will leave the Deutsche Oper Berlin as General Music Director in 2026, one year ahead of the expiration of his current contract. His departure will thus coincide with the arrival of Aviel Cahn as the new Intendant, thereby … » Read

Concluding a two-year search, Switzerland’s Bern Symphony Orchestra has chosen Krzysztof Urbanski to succeed Mario Venzango as music director, effective in 2024. The 40- year-old Polish conductor first led the orchestra last season in the … » Read

The WFMT Radio Network based in Chicago broadcast on Sept. 2 the first in a series of four operas staged by the China National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing. The network reaches 360 markets, covering most of the country. The … » Read

Opera Holland Park’s Rigoletto might easily have been just another London night at the opera. That it turned out to be rather special was largely down to conductor Lee Reynolds. Despite reduced forces, he managed to pull a rabbit out of the … » Read

The aftershocks from Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s reported assault on English bass William Thomas following a concert in France on Aug 22 continue. In a statement issued on Aug. 31, Gardiner’s management announced that their client will … » Read