As Marin Alsop concludes her tenure as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) with a star-filled live broadcast and online gala on June 19, she looks back on her 14 years with both pride and regret. Now a much better ensemble … » Read

The Las Vegas Philharmonic has a new executive director as of May 3, coming to the city from Grand Rapids, MI, where she served for the last year as a consultant and, prior to that, COO to a startup called Aid the Neway International_SignArt. At … » Read

As if to reassure us that it will, indeed, offer a full 2021-22 season, and that Riccardo Muti is still, indeed, its music director, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has announced the first few programs of its next season, packaging it as a … » Read

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), located in Winston-Salem—one of UNC’s 17 statewide campuses—is undergoing major changes, as witnessed by the arrival of new deans at three of its five genre-specific … » Read

MacKenzie Scott, currently the nation’s most generous and influential philanthropist, has announced a new round of grants totaling $2.74bn to 286 organizations—among them major universities, distinguished arts groups, and nonprofits … » Read

The Springfield Symphony Orchestra (SSO), Massachusetts’ largest such ensemble outside of Boston, is in the midst of labor negotiations that will likely make or break the upcoming season. The musicians’ contract expired in August of … » Read

Two significant “firsts” mark the New York Philharmonic’s upcoming season: the first time playing together in 18 months and the first in memory to perform outside of its home venue for an entire season. While (re) construction … » Read

For the Berlin Philharmonic’s 2021-22 season, which launches at the end of August, Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko has chosen the theme “Lost Generation,” focusing on composers whose voices were silenced by the Nazi takeover in … » Read

For purveyors and fans of live music and theater in the U.K., a four-week delay in response to the appearance of the more transmissible Delta variant of Covid-19 has pushed  opening for live performances from June 21 to July 19. Lucy Noble, … » Read

When Magda Krance, the Lyric Opera’s director of media relations, retires at the end of June, she will leave behind a world markedly different from the one she entered 30 years ago. Gone are Chicago’s multiple daily newspapers, each … » Read