LOS ANGELES (AP)—Wayne Shorter , an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. He was 89. Shorter died Thursday … » Read

The Colorado Symphony Orchestra (CSO), which celebrates its centennial during the 2023-24 season, has announced that as of May 8, Mark Cantrell will be the ensemble’s new chief executive officer. He succeeds Jerome H. Kern, who retired as … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—For Samuel Adams, the pandemic was both a constraint and source of transformation. Isolated like everyone else in the spring of 2020, the composer began to rethink his practice, pushing himself, as he put it in a San Francisco … » Read

Jane Baker Nord, widow of Cleveland industrialist Eric Thomas Nord, was recognized last night in Severance Music Center with the Cleveland Orchestra’s Distinguished Service Award. It was bestowed in conjunction with her latest gift of $7 … » Read

A production of Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana at San Francisco’s 1200-seat Dance Mission Theater, opening tonight, will be adding something special to the usual spectacle that is opera—an aerialist. The idea is the … » Read

Cate Blanchett’s performance in the Academy Award-nominated film Tár has drawn renewed attention to the notion of the conductor as autocrat. But in today’s orchestral world, such a creature is increasingly a thing of the past. … » Read

Time was when only the vocal greats dared assay the title role of Bellini’s Norma at the Metropolitan Opera, from Lilli Lehmann to Montserrat Caballé, with Rosa Ponselle, Maria Callas, and Joan Sutherland, among others, falling in … » Read

LOS ANGELES, CA– In hindsight, the great Dave Brubeck was a prophet of inclusion in the concert music world. When he disbanded his classic jazz quartet in 1967 in order to devote time to writing sacred classical works, one of his goals was … » Read

The status of the Black Sea port of Odesa in Ukraine as a major center for the export of grain made it a prime target during the first months of the Russian invasion. But despite early, savage assaults, the city has remained firmly under … » Read

LONDON—The Royal Opera owes Dvorák a good Rusalka but, while this new one is an improvement on the debacle of 2012 (a production remembered less for its brothel setting than for being the sole Covent Garden engagement to date of … » Read