As Michael Stern, conductor and music director of the Kansas City Symphony since 2005, prepares to step down, the search for his successor is already underway. As Steve Paul writes for KC Studio , a weekly online newsletter, “This season … » Read

We post this news only because it relates to the last three controversial incidents at UMich, all of which implicated  music faculty: David Daniels, Stephen Shipps, and Bright Sheng. ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Mark Schlissel has been … » Read

LONDON--The HD cameras were ready to roll, Daniele Abbado’s 2013 production had been spruced up, but alas, the diva had cancelled. Anna Netrebko, scheduled to make her role debut as Abigaille in Verdi’s Nabucco , pulled out from this … » Read

On Jan. 13, pianist Igor Levit made himself at home in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. His recital, which included works by Beethoven, Fred Hersh, Wagner, and Liszt, was, wrote Zachary Woolfe in the New York Times , “judiciously … » Read

Those attending a Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert at the Meyerson Symphony Center can now take a pre-performance rapid antigen Covid-19 test onsite at no cost. “Our intention is to have the safest environment we can and to have people … » Read

Des Moines Metro Opera (DMMO) has named Allen Perriello, recent head of music at Minnesota Opera, as director of artistic administration, a new position succeeding the previous one of artistic administrator, held by Samuel Carroll, in the job … » Read

ORLANDO – Steinmetz Hall has been a long time coming. First proposed in the 1990s, the development of a first-class venue for classical music, opera, and dance in downtown Orlando had to overcome many delays, detours, and doubts through the … » Read

Terry Teachout, biographer, playwright, journalist, blogger, and longtime theater critic for the Wall Street Journal , died the morning of January 13 while visiting a friend in Smithtown, NY. He was 65. His death was first reported in the … » Read

The San Francisco Symphony cancelled its matinee concert on Thursday, 30 minutes before the downbeat. Results from the morning’s routine Covid tests among the musicians had apparently just come in and so the decision had to be made at the … » Read

The union representing the musicians of the San Antonio Symphony, who have been on strike  since September 2021, have proposed returning compensation to 2019 levels, the last time both sides ratified a collective bargaining agreement. The … » Read