The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra (SDSO), with a core of nine professional musicians and an annual budget of $2.3 million, has received a contribution of $2 million from native son and billionaire Dean Buntrock, founder and longtime chief of … » Read

Any orchestral concert depends for its success on the equal collaboration among musicians, conductor, and, especially for new works, the composer. Absent such a partnership, writes Joshua Kosman in the San Francisco Chronicle , “sorrowful … » Read

One of the pleasures flowing from the classical music world’s long overdue attention to Black artists is the frequent discovery of extraordinary individuals whose achievements have hitherto gone unrecognized. Mary Lucinda Cardwell Dawson, … » Read

John Williams, at 90 the world’s most feted living composer, just received his 53 rd Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score, for Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans. This makes Williams not only the most nominated composer in … » Read

As threatened by its landlord , the Philly Pops has been officially evicted from the Kimmel Center. All upcoming concerts are marked as “cancelled” on the Kimmel Center website, including the Feb. 17-19 program “Get Up, Stand … » Read

Alban Berg as Franz Schubert's musical grandson? That idea of a kinship between two Viennese composers who lived a century apart—proposed in a program note by Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst—began to make … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera will mark the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with a concert to remember victims of the war. This is the company's  second concert honoring Ukraine. Met music director Yannick … » Read

A Jan. 19 concert by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, with violinist Pinchas Zukerman as both conductor and soloist, left critic Scott Cantrell feeling that the ensemble “lacked its usual focus and cohesiveness.” Zukerman is well-known … » Read

Although Charles Edwards [pictured] has been designing operas for major companies throughout the U.K., Europe, and the U.S. for decades, he has yet to tackle Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde , a work that first captured his imagination when he … » Read

A few weeks ago, the Philly Pops mounted a gung-ho “Save the Pops” campaign , in response to threatened closure from overwhelming debt . One of its largest debtors was, and remains, its landlord, the Kimmel Center, to which it owes … » Read