Shannon Kelly has been promoted to president & CEO of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, succeeding Andrea F. Warren , in the job under three years. Kelly has been the VSO’s VP of development since January 2023 and is said to have rebuilt … » Read

CHICAGO—For one weekend every August, Lollapalooza, Chicago’s pop music mega-festival, moves into the south end of the city’s long stretch of downtown parkland. And every Lollapalooza weekend, the Grant Park Orchestra, based in … » Read

On May 30, a housekeeper found Matthew Christopher Pietras dead in his New York City apartment. The 40-year-old’s mysterious death ended a decade-long spree of personal excess and philanthropic largesse—all underwritten with other … » Read

The turmoil that has accompanied Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center has been well documented and caused many patrons to boycott its programming as well as that of its two major constituent organizations—the National … » Read

Symphony concerts came late to Iceland; the country’s first orchestra was not established until 1950. But today the nation’s composers, many of them women, are producing distinctive, appealing works that are reinventing symphonic … » Read

The Kentucky Opera has announced two leadership appointments. Peggy Kriha Miller has been selected as interim general director & CEO, succeeding Barbara Lynne Jamison, who took over as head of Opera Colorado on August 1. The … » Read

The Salzburg Festival has tapped Christian Blex of Germany as the winner of its biennial Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award (YCA); Blex, 31, took top honors after leading a concert with the Camerata Salzburg over the weekend at the Main … » Read

In a characteristic move against the popular will, the Republican-led Senate Appropriations Committee last week dealt a deathblow to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The committee vote, along party lines, refused to restore $1.1 billion … » Read

LONDON—Mahler’s Second Symphony is a massive draw these days, so it was no surprise to find this August 2 BBC Prom at full capacity (the Prommers standing in the Royal Albert Hall arena were packed in like sardines.) What was, … » Read

Adriaan Fuchs, director of festivals and special projects at Carnegie Hall, is to be the new CEO and artistic director of the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO). Fuchs, 43, will succeed Louis Heyneman, in the job for 25 years. Fuchs has been … » Read