The chairman of Live Nation NYC, Ron Delsener, has said he will retire after six decades in the concert promotion business, stretching in eras from the Beatles through Sprinsteen, David Bowie to Quincy Jones.  He is 86. Delsener has for … » Read

One can hardly blame Lincoln Center and the New York Philharmonic for milking the reopening of David Geffen Hall for all it’s worth. This is no simple homecoming, after all, but rather the culmination of a $500 million pandemic project … » Read

Stanford Thompson has announced that after 13 years at the helm, he will step down as executive director of Play On Philly (POP) at the end of the current school year. He is leaving, he writes in a letter to the POP community, “to continue … » Read

A public meeting of the Bexar County Commissioners Court on Oct. 11 produced a heated debate about a proposal to provide $300,000 in funding for San Antonio’s so-called Classical Music Institution, which would fund an orchestra for the … » Read

At the quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis awards gala on September 25, four of the six top honorees were U.S. nationals. Sirena Huang, 28, of the U.S. took the top prize of ($75,000), plus awards for interpretations of … » Read

In a host of recent faculty appointments comes new that percussionist Ji Su Jung has joined the timpani and percussion faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music . Witnessed in action performing Kevin Puts’s 1997 Marimba Concerto at the 2021 … » Read

LONDON—An hour and a half spent waiting for the lead character to commit suicide may sound a grim prospect, but in Last Days , Oliver Leith achieves something that’s rare and often strangely beautiful. His opera, seen at the Royal … » Read

Both the opera and ballet of the Finish National Opera are getting new artistic directors. Javier Torres López arrived at the National Ballet in that capacity on August 1, 2022, and Thomas de Mallet Burgess is slated to succeed Lilli … » Read

In the motion picture Tár , Cate Blanchett’s star turn as the eponymous maestra Lydia Tár, director Todd Field explores power and prestige, gender, and betrayal using the worlds of Beethoven, Bach, Mahler, et al. to provide … » Read

STOCKHOLM— Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has been expelled from his position as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music for his reluctance to condemn Russian invasion of Ukraine, the academy said Thursday. The academy, … » Read