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CMA Buys CelloBello

October 23, 2025 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
Chamber Music America, the national network for small ensemble professionals, has acquired CelloBello, a nonprofit that offers free and accessible music education resources to the cello and chamber music community. The acquisition of … » Read
 

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AFM Satisfied, Broadway Stays Lit

October 23, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
The Broadway musicians of Local 802 AFM and the producers of the Broadway League have reached an agreement, thereby avoiding a work stoppage by the former that could potentially have darkened most of Broadway. “United in solidarity, Local … » Read
 

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Ireland to Continue BIA Program

October 23, 2025 | Anthony Brown, Musical America
From 2022 to 2025, the Irish government ran a pilot program that provided a weekly stipend of €325 (£283) to 2,000 artists and creatives. Now the government has decided to make the program permanent. This decision is at odds with … » Read
 

People in the News

Aspen CEO Will Exit

October 22, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Alan Fletcher, longtime CEO of the Aspen Music Festival and School, will exit his position to become president emeritus as of January 1, 2027.  Robert Spano, whom Fletcher takes credit for hiring as music director in 2011 (after David Zinman … » Read
 

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More Podium Management Shifts

October 22, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Ukrainian conductor Olha Dondyk , 21, has joined the roster of HarrisonParrott for worldwide general management. She was previously with Interartists in Amsterdam. Dondyk is the assistant conductor of the Orchestre de Paris under Klaus … » Read
 

Contests & Awards

American Pianist Wins the 'Chopin Games'

October 22, 2025 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
American Eric Lu won the gold medal and €60,000 at the XIX International Chopin Competition in Warsaw on Monday. The 28-year-old artist bested ten other finalists from seven countries in an event that Ivan Hewett, classical music critic for … » Read
 

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Mann Center Gets Highmarked

October 22, 2025 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park will henceforth be known as the Highmark Mann, in recognition of the Pittsburgh-based insurance company’s purchase of naming rights for an undisclosed sum. The … » Read
 

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Misty Copeland Makes Her Grand Exit

October 22, 2025 | Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Misty Copeland hangs up her pointe shoes tonight, putting a final exclamation point on a trailblazing career in which she became an ambassador for diversity in the very white world of ballet—and a crossover star far … » Read
 

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B'way Musicians Poised to Strike

October 21, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Broadway musicians of Local 802 AFM are rattling their collective sword, stating they will call an “immediate” strike if they don’t have a satisfactory contract agreement with the producers in the Broadway League by Thursday … » Read
 

Reviews

J. Williams: 22 CDs and It's Only Vol. I

October 21, 2025 | Clive Paget, Musical America
LONDON—Scoring films is a 20th-century art, its form and function laid down in part by European emigrees, many of them Jewish, who sought sanctuary in the U.S. before, during, and after WWII. The man today who carries the torch once borne … » Read
 
 

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