Since 2018 Orchestras Canada has taken three surveys of attitudes toward the use of digital resources to reach online audiences. The 60 orchestras responding to the  initial survey saw the potential of digital engagement, but were challenged … » Read

BAGHDAD (AP) — War kept him away from his beloved homeland for decades. Now, virtuoso oud player Naseer Shamma hopes to help rebuild conflict-scarred Iraq through a series of concerts and other projects to support culture and education. The … » Read

The pandemic has presented special challenges to educators forced to teach students on line. Creating and performing music demands both mental and physical acuity, and judging the latter, especially, is difficult in a srictly two-dimensional … » Read

Nobody was expecting a swan-song masterpiece at the January 23 rd New York premiere of Penelope , the quasi-opera by the late composer André Previn (he died on February 28, 2019) and playwright Tom Stoppard. Unlike their 1977 … » Read

The Washington Post has published a list of 22 composers and performers to keep an eye on in the coming year, apparently compiled from nominations by a diverse list of artists, ranging from violist/host Nadia Sirota to … » Read

Stephen Sondheim, who died at 91 on Nov. 26, left an estate estimated to be worth as much as $75mn. He designated that the entirety—including his personal effects, the rights to his music and literary works and everything else—go to … » Read

This past July, seven months after he sold his songwriting copyrights to Universal Music, Bob Dylan sold his entire recorded music catalog—his master recordings—as well as “the rights to multiple future releases” to Sony. … » Read

MILAN--When Evelino Pidò tested positive for Covid little more than a week before La Scala’s new production of Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi was due to open, Speranza Scappucci was enlisted to replace him in what was to be … » Read

An arrangement, in music, adapts a particular piece for a specific set of performers. It’s often driven by expediency, retrofitting a musical vision to the forces at hand. In the social arena, an arrangement is an informal agreement between … » Read

A six-decade lapse between recordings is hardly the norm for any artist. But then 97-year-old pianist Ruth Slenczynska, whose My Life in Music will be released by Decca on March 18, is not just any artist. Born in Sacramento, CA, in 1925, her … » Read