Ahmad Jamal, born Frederick Russell Jones in Pittsburgh on July 2, 1930, died on April 16 at age 92 in Massachusetts. A keyboardist whose playing defied easy categorization, he inspired generations of jazz artists ranging from pianists McCoy … » Read

The Perelman Family Foundation has pledged $25 million to create the “Perelman Arts District” at Brown University, funding the the Brown Arts Institute, founded in 2021, and the university’s 2017 Brown Arts Initiative, which … » Read

Scott Reed will step down as president and CEO of the Music Academy at the end of the 2023 summer season, according to an executive search firm posting. He has been with the Santa Barbara based Academy, which recently simplified its name from … » Read

In his first leadership post in the U.S., conductor Alexander Shelley is to be artistic and music director of Artis—Naples,  that unusual partnership between the Naples (FL) Philharmonic and its next-door neighbor, the Baker Museum. … » Read

For seven years Harriet Jacobs, an enslaved woman in North Carolina, hid from her abusive enslaver in an attic space that measured 9-feet long by 7- feet wide and 3- feet high. With only a small peephole to let in light, she sweltered in the … » Read

When Valentina Peleggi, music director of the Richmond Symphony, mounted the podium on April 1 to conduct George Walker’s Icarus in Orbit and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection , she and her musicians debuted a new, custom-designed … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—Lincoln Center will hold its second Summer for the City festival June 14 to Aug. 12. The large disco ball and dance floor will return. The event currently is set to include 193 events, including 50 on the plaza dance floor, 37 … » Read

AIX-EN-PROVENCE—While summer here has long been synonymous with great opera, for the past ten years a second festival has joined its elder brother and become an indelible fixture on the springtime calendar. The Aix Easter Festival has fast … » Read

To allay fears that its summer festival may not go ahead as planned, June 24-August 6, Central City Opera has issued a press release stating that it is continuing to “negotiate in good faith” with AGMA, even after five months of … » Read

The Israel Philharmonic has named Alisa Meves as its new head of artistic operations. Meves served as personal assistant to Valery Gergiev for some three decades. Gergiev, it will be recalled, is a close friend and supporter of Vladimir Putin and … » Read