The Kennedy Center has announced the recipients of this year's honors for “lifetime artistic achievements,” and it’s a mixed bag indeed: Think movie star George Clooney meets composer Tania León meets rock group U2 meets … » Read

Jonathon Heyward, chief conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, former Dudamel Fellow, is to be the next music director of the Baltimore Symphony, the orchestra announced today. He will serve as music director designate next season and … » Read

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v Wade will lend the San Francisco Opera’s June 2023 presentation of R. Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten ( The Woman Without a Shadow ) an unwelcome immediacy. At the … » Read

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has welcomed three new violinists, a cellist, an assistant librarian, and two clarinetists to its ranks. The position of concertmaster remains open, longtime principal  Malcolm Lowe having stepped down in … » Read

The Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra (MNPO), a newly created national orchestra in South Africa, is scheduled to give its debut performance in late July amid criticism that it costs too much and is unnecessary. The MNPO is the brainchild of … » Read

Let the Music Move—A New Deal for Touring , a report published on July 18 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Music (APPG), offers a series of recommendations to address the "mountain of red tape and extra costs that musicians and crew … » Read

Beth Morrison Projects has added several new members to its artistic board including bass Morris Robinson [pictured], a not-uncommon presence at the Metropolitan Opera, among other houses, and current artistic advisor to the Cincinnati Opera, and … » Read

Ontario Arts Council, responsible for funding the likes of the Canadian Opera Company, the Toronto Symphony, Tafelmusik, plus the region’s numerous lower profile outfits, has hired Michael Murray as its new CEO, starting August 29. Murray … » Read

After two years of online music in deference to the pandemic, the 60-year-old Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music is returning to live performance, July 24-August 7, with a season of orchestral music touching on social, political, and … » Read

If not Leon Botstein, then who?  Nobody but this venerable impresario/conductor—president of Bard College and its annual music festival, music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, author, scholar, etc.—regularly sets out … » Read