Patrons of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO) can be forgiven if they suspect that the Schermerhorn Symphony Center has become the set for a remake of The Birds , Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 horror/thriller. For the past two summers, tens … » Read

Pentatone recordings has hired Sean Hickey as its new managing director. He succeeds Simon M. Eder, who left in January to join Intermusica artist management after five years in the top spot. Hickey is an award-winning composer who has several … » Read

The Vienna Konzerthaus cancelled a Ukraine benefit concert planned for tonight. The primary reason was the performers, Greek-Russian star conductor Teodor Currentzis and his musicAeterna orchestra, and their primary sponsor, Russian VTN Bank. The … » Read

The Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, which performs about a half-dozen classical concerts per season, has suspended its search for a music director to succeed Randall Craig Fleischer, who died suddenly in August 2020 after 21 years in the post. He … » Read

When the Boston Symphony Orchestra  cancelled its May 12 and 13 performances in London’s Royal Festival Hall last month, it still planned to keep its subsequent dates, May 15-24, in Vienna, Leipzig, Hamburg, and Paris, leading to … » Read

LONDON—English National Opera has had it rough of late, what with the premature departure of former Artistic Director Daniel Kramer after just a year followed swiftly by the global pandemic. Reviews of Kramer’s residual program have … » Read

With a dozen well-chosen words—"In the current exceptional circumstances, participation in the competition was not possible.”—the Sibelius Competition did what the Cliburn would not. It banned Russian musicians from the 11-day … » Read

Anna Netrebko, having received criticism, not to mention a performance cancellation , in Russia after attempting to back-peda l her previous, well-documented support of Vladmir Putin, has once again turned to social media in an attempt to keep … » Read

MILAN—Back in 2020, Ai Weiwei's production of Turandot for the Rome Opera was one of the most eagerly anticipated events on Italy's cultural calendar. The Chinese artist and activist is famed for championing protestors and refugees around … » Read

George E. Lewis, a professor of music at Columbia University and an outspoken advocate for the inclusion of Black artists in experimental music, is to be the new artistic director of the International Contemporary Ensemble. The ensemble’s … » Read