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

The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra has announced plans for a $9mn state-of-the-art, 20,000-sq.-ft. music center to be located adjacent to the Clinton Presidential Center. For the past two years the ASO has been raising money behind-the-scenes. With … » Read

British-American conductor Johann Stuckenbruck has joined the roster of HarrisonParrott, his first management affiliation. A regular conductor at Glyndebourne, Stuckenbruck served as assistant conductor under Mark Elder at the Hallé … » Read

New artistic leadership is now in place at the ballet companies in San Francisco and Orlando. On Jan. 11 the San Francisco Ballet appointed Tamara Rojo as its first new artistic director in nearly 40 years and the first woman to lead the company. … » Read

The Welsh government has bolstered its pre-Christmas support package for the arts worth £5.25mn ($7.2mn) with an additional £10.2mn ($14mn). The government’s deputy minister for arts and sport Dawn Bowden described the funding … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock ‘n’ roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as “Be My Baby,” “Baby I Love You” and “Walking in the Rain” as the leader of the girl … » Read

Mark Williams, chief artistic and operations officer of the Cleveland Orchestra, is to be the new CEO of the Toronto Symphony as of April 2022. He succeeds Matthew Loden , who took over as dean of Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music … » Read