Michael Tilson Thomas’s impact on the musical life of Miami has been profound. For 35 years he was artistic director of the New World Symphony, the ensemble he co-founded as a launching pad for young classical musicians. The plaudits MTT … » Read

After a two-year long shutdown, the expenditure of more than $150mn ($103.5mn U.S.), and repeated delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Sydney Opera House is in the final stages of completing a much-needed renovation. The improved venue, … » Read

The Dallas Symphony-Fabio Luisi partnership, launched in 2020-21 but interrupted by Covid, has been progressing nicely, marked by several operas in concert and a continuing  connection to the Met Opera sparked by his six years there as … » Read

The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Pan-American Music Initiative got underway in 2020 but got sidelined, like everything else, by the pandemic. Now it has taken the form of a five-year project of music from the Western Hemisphere, including the … » Read

Raven Chacon, a member of the Navajo Nation who lives in Albuquerque, has received the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Voiceless Mass , a work for ensemble and pipe organ. It was an unexpected honor for an artist whose work in music, video, and … » Read

Exiled Ukrainian musicians have come together in Berlin to form “Mriya” (the Ukrainian word for dream), an orchestra of more than 30 players that presented its first concert on May 10. Funded in part by the aid organization … » Read

Symphony San Jose, formerly Symphony Silicon Valley, formerly San Jose Symphony, has named Robert Massey as its general director. He is to succeed the 20-year-old ensemble’s founder Andrew Bales, who is retiring. Massey's most recent … » Read

Molly Carr is to succeed the late Roger Tapping as the violist of the Juilliard String Quartet, now in its 75 th -anniversary season. Carr, a much-acclaimed free-lancer who performs and records regularly with Anna Petrova as the Carr-Petrova Duo, … » Read

"Serse is not Handel’s only comic opera, as it has sometimes been described,” according to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , with the implication that there are others. But it can more aptly be claimed that he wrote no truly comic … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s silver tea set is going to a family with a five-year-old daughter who once went as Ginsburg for Halloween. A medal Ginsburg was awarded when inducted into the National Women’s Hall … » Read