James Thomas, creative director of the Manchester Camerata, is to be the next director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia (RNS) & Classical Program. RNS is the U.K.’s only full-time chamber orchestra and is resident at Sage Gateshead, an … » Read

PORTLAND--As part of its “Inspirations & Influences” Summer Festival, Chamber Music Northwest presented composer Andy Akiho’s multimedia 2021 work Seven Pillars to a sold-out crowd at the Alberta Rose Theater, a converted … » Read

NEWPORT, RI (AP) — Surprise! Joni Mitchell is back onstage. The folk legend performed her first full-length concert on Sunday at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island.  Mitchell has contended with health complications since … » Read

LENOX, MA-- A Standing Witness is a collection of powerful, serious, and important political poems by Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, composed by Grammy-winner Richard Danielpour. Both attended its performance July … » Read

The Louisville Orchestra’s initial “Creators Corps” is a racially- and gender-balanced trio of composer/performers, each of whom has a reputation for stretching musical boundaries and reaching beyond them into society. Funded … » Read

Jonathan Heyward will not join the Baltimore Symphony as its new music director until the fall of 2023, but he is already introducing himself to the city. At a recent meeting with reporters, he shared information about his background and … » Read

Orchestras around the world have embraced the popularity of live-with-film concerts. They are reliable revenue generators, typically selling-out, and are proving to be vehicles with which to introduce new, younger audiences to orchestra … » Read

The Boston-based New England Philharmonic , a 45-year-old all-volunteer ensemble specializing in contemporary music, has spent the past season auditioning candidates to succeed longtime music director Richard Pittman, now emeritus. Its choice … » Read

Louisa May Alcott was born in 19th-century Massachusetts into a family whose intellectual liberal circle included Whitman, Emerson, and Thoreau. Educated and opinionated, her semi-autobiographical novels, starting with Little Women , were written … » Read

While ecstatic at the prospect of a full-fledged return to live performances, The Washington Post’s music critic Michael Andor Brodeur laments the slow but seemingly steady demise of the printed program. Whereas “happy ushers” … » Read