Apple has acquired Primephonic, the four-year-old Netherlands-based classical music streaming service .  The tech behemoth’s plans call for the launch, at some as-yet-undetermined time, of a dedicated Apple Music Classical experience, … » Read

Tobias Kratzer’s bold, imaginative production of Tannhäuser , which opened here in 2019 to mostly positive reviews, was revived this season with a few changes reflecting, and reflecting on, the Covid environment. As before, … » Read

Panic was the operative word for many in the classical music world when the pandemic shut down their industry in March 2020. “I lost all of my work," recalls violinist Jennifer Koh. "It was not good times." At one point she had to rely on … » Read

AFM Local 802 has accused the New York City Ballet of using the pandemic as an excuse to not pay a fair wage to its orchestra while the company was shuttered.  The union, in a letter to City Ballet Executive Director Katherine E. Brown, … » Read

The Curtis Institute of Music has accepted Gary Graffman's resignation. After discussions with school administrators, the 92-year-old pianist and former director and president is no longer on the faculty of the storied institution. Graffman lives … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — There’s a woman who has seen the play Pass Over multiple times in just a few days. She sat with the audience one night, returned another day to stand at the back of the theater and once stayed backstage for an entire … » Read

Li Xincao, chief conductor of the China National Symphony Orchestra (CNSO) since 2018 and its vice president since 2019, has been named the orchestra’s president by the Ministry of Culture & Tourism. He fills a post vacated by Zhang Yi … » Read

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- At a free open-air concert in Budapest last week Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) Chief Conductor Iván Fischer removed his jacket to reveal a white dress shirt with a hole cut out of the sleeve. As he kept his … » Read

Europe has historically offered a warmer reception to Black American composers than has the U.S. William Grant Still’s music received some of its earliest performances in Paris, for example, and his Afro-American Symphony received its … » Read

Singapore-born conductor Kahchun Wong is to be the new principal guest conductor of the Japan Philharmonic as of next month, succeeding the ailing Neeme Järvi. Wong's debut with Japan Phil came last March when he stepped in for Pietari … » Read