The editors at London’s Telegraph Group must have been listening: When Sir Nicholas Kenyon announced his  plan to depart after nearly 25 years as managing director of the Barbican, among the reasons he stated was his desire to get back … » Read

The Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang is to be the beneficiary of the long-term loan of the 1734 “Rode” Guarneri del Gesù violin. Previously played by virtuosi such as Pierre Rode, Norbert Brainin, and Kyung Wha Chung, Frang … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Walter Yetnikoff, the rampaging, R-rated head of CBS Records who presided over blockbuster releases by Michael Jackson, Billy Joel ,and many others and otherwise devoted his life to a self-catered feast of “schmoozing, … » Read

The evolution of the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, the San Diego Symphony’s new, $85 million summer stage that opened with great fanfare last Friday, can be traced back to 2016. That was when the city first gave the orchestra permission to … » Read

LENOX, Mass--Last Sunday’s terrific Boston Symphony Orchestra concert had multiple connections to the Year 2014: The program in the Koussevitzky Music Shed opened with Sinfonia ( for Orbiting Spheres ), composed in that year by Missy … » Read

London native Suzy Klein, a veteran of the BBC for over two decades, is to become the broadcaster’s head of Arts and Classical Music in October. Her position has been newly created to ensure that arts and classical music commissioning is … » Read

The generational turnover in the performing arts rolls on, as the 92 nd Street Y appoints a successor to Hanna Arie-Gaifman, who  announced in January that she would step down after 21 years as director of the Tisch Center for the Arts. The … » Read

British conductor Joel Sandelson has been chosen as the recipient of the 2021 the Herbert Karajan Young Conductors Award at the Salzburg Festival. After the three finalists each conducted hour-long concerts with the Camerata Salzburg in the Great … » Read

LONDON—Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla has taken the U.K. by storm. The Lithuanian conductor first guested with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 2015 and was appointed as its music director in 2016 , a post she will have held until she … » Read

Spotify currently has 365 million monthly users. Every day some portion of them use the platform and, in the process, generate more than 100 billion data points. The information gathered, says the company’s advertising materials, … » Read