MILAN (AP) — Before the pandemic, students at Italy’s oldest and largest music conservatory were always told to move “closer, closer, closer” when they played together. “Because you need to hear each other,″ … » Read

We will be updating this list weekly. Please note that all times are given in U.S. Eastern Time (ET). To calculate in other time zones or counties, British Summer Time (BST) is currently five hours ahead of ET and Central European Time (CET) is … » Read

Opening in May, Opera Theater of St. Louis became one of the first companies in the U.S. to offer the semblance of a season to a live audience. The al fresco venue, with 263 socially distanced seats, is a makeshift facility in a parking lot … » Read

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, est. 1906, has named Jaime Martín as successor to Sir Andrew Davis as its chief conductor. He starts in 2022, three years subsequent to Davis’s departure . Stateside, Martin is best known as music … » Read

The stroke that sidelined the 60-year-old Welsh conductor Grant Llewellyn last summer took three days to develop. What began as a “funny feeling” gradually progressed to the point that he could hardly walk or carry out basic life … » Read

The Juilliard School’s projected annual tuition raise of four percent—from $49,260 to $51,230—has led students to occupy parts of its Lincoln Center campus and then protest on West 65 th Street after they were barred from the … » Read

Cuban-American composer Tania León, 78, has won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her 15-minute work Stride , premiered by The New York Philharmonic on Feb. 2020, one of the orchestra’s Project 19 commissions of as many works by … » Read

Despite more than a year of lockdowns and quarantines, the recording industry has managed to stay the course, issuing newly recorded performances as well as pre-pandemic inventory. Here are a few selections from the recent past and near future. … » Read

These days the Small Business Administration (SBA) is looking more and more like the gang that can’t shoot straight . Charged with disbursing $16bn of federal relief under the Small Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program, which was enacted … » Read

Universal Music Group (UMG) has agreed to a strategic global alliance with independent music company [Integral], [PIAS]’s recently rebranded international distribution network. The deal commits UMG to providing undisclosed funds in return … » Read