Deutsche Grammophon has launched STAGE+, a streaming platform that offers access to the latest audio and video recordings on DG and Decca, concert and operatic performances from the company’s archives, and regular livestreams from … » Read

After five years as a professor in the music department at Harvard, jazz musician  Esperanza E. Spalding has announced she is leaving the university to return to her hometown of Portland, Oregon. There she hopes to create a “sanctuary … » Read

Early arrivals to Teatro San Carlo’s eagerly anticipated opening of the season on Saturday in Naples were surprised to discover that Claus Guth’s new production of Don Carlo had been cancelled. The closure, by government decree, was … » Read

Bruce Coppock, who twice served the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra as president and managing director—from 1999 to 2008 and again 2013 to 2016—died on Nov. 21 at age 71 after a long battle with cancer. Described by a colleague as someone … » Read

One of the most significant changes in the New York Philharmonic as it settles into its newly renovated home is that women musicians outnumber men—45 to 44—for the first time in the ensemble’s 180-year history. “This has … » Read

Julian Lloyd Webber has taken the BBC to task for sidelining its own annual Young Musician competition. It was first broadcast in 1978 on BBC One, where it annually attracted 13 million viewers. In the mid-1980s, the competition was moved to BBC … » Read

NEW YORK — Kevin Puts’s The Hours has had more than a few hours of changes since it was first heard in a pair of concert performances in Philadelphia last March. The first composition in a novel arrangement between the Philadelphia … » Read

Tragedy has a way of honing artistic focus. After the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, the founding composers of Bang on a Can—Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe— veered noticeably inward, their music becoming a bit … » Read

Arts Council England’s recent edict reducing funds to its constituents, claiming outlying groups need more funding and London’s less, has taken its first victim: Welsh National Opera tours to Liverpool.   Facing a 35 percent … » Read

Steven Ovitsky, executive director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival since 2004, will retire in September 2023 at the conclusion of the festival’s 50 th season. “Having recently celebrated my 75th birthday,” he said when … » Read