CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Hundreds of violins, violas and double basses sounded at Venezuela’s military academy Saturday, then woodwinds, brass and percussion gradually joined in — and thousands of musicians, mostly children and … » Read

A new report from Arts Council England has found that the majority of the industry’s elite training opportunities are filled by young people from upper income families. “Creating a More Inclusive Classical Music,” a … » Read

The standoff between the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 868, and the Music Center at Strathmore has been resolved, thus avoiding a threatened strike by box office employees. In theory, this should enable the … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra has five new members, including a new head librarian, bringing the number hired during Music Director Franz Welser-Möst’s 20-year reign to nearly half of the ensemble. The Austrian conductor noted he had heard … » Read

The murder of a German man and his daughter in Paraguay appears to have resulted from the theft of several rare Stradivarius violins. Bernard Raymond von Bredow, 62, a museum owner and luthier, and his 14-year-old daughter Lydia, were found in … » Read

Charlotte Smith, editor of The Strad , is to succeed Oliver Condy as the editor of BBC Music magazine in January. Condy, who left in May after 17 years and many iterations of BBC Music ( published by the Immediate Media Group), has authored a new … » Read

When Chicago-based freelancer Hannah Edgar claims her amateur status as a violinist with pride, she speaks, in effect, for hundreds of musicians who make up the dozen community orchestras scattered throughout the Windy City. “I play violin … » Read

The standoff between the musicians of the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra (SASO) musicians and the Symphony Society of San Antonio, the board that oversees orchestra operations, is rapidly devolving from bad to worse. A story about the SASO posted … » Read

French conductor Ludovic Morlot is to succeed Kazushi Ono as music director of the Barcelona Symphony starting in fall 2022 for four seasons. Ono was recently tapped as the next music director of the Brussels Philharmonic , also in 2022, for five … » Read

There are mountains of music—rewarding music—that have rarely, if ever, been heard. “One of the chief causes of that neglect,” writes San Francisco Chronicle critic Joshua Kosman, “is race.” In 2018 the … » Read