The Los Angeles Music Center has become the first performing arts organization to receive the UL Verified Healthy Buildings Mark for Indoor Air Quality from Underwriters Laboratories, the international testing service headquartered in Northbrook, … » Read

The LA Opera has partnered with subscription arts-streaming platform Marquee TV to add Joseph Bologne’s The Anonymous Lover to its offerings, starting March 27. Marquee TV’s catalog is well-stocked with classic productions of … » Read

The Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM), scheduled to take place online from April 26 to May 14, has pianists Till Fellner and Charles Richard-Hamelin to the jury. Chaired by Zarin Mehta, the panel already includes Arnaldo … » Read

Among the many challenges facing the San Francisco Opera (SFO) as it has contemplated a return to live performances is how to protect a group of people working closely together on stage from breathing one another’s potentially infectious … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The new PBS documentary on dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp is called Twyla Moves . In retrospect, that sounds a bit weak. It really should be called Twyla Moves and Won’t Stop As Long As She Has a Detectable Pulse , a … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is taking steps toward the reopening of the city’s theaters, creating vaccination and testing sites for stage workers in a bid to restore a key part of New York’s draw. “It’s time to … » Read

Kevin McKenzie will retire as artistic director of the American Ballet Theater at the end of 2022, after nearly 30 years in the job. His tenure represents more than a third of the company’s history, having succeeded co-directors Jane … » Read

The New York Philharmonic’s first live performances for audiences in over a year will take place not with their music director on the podium but with musicians' favorite Esa-Pekka Salonen leading small-ensembles. Repertoire is Arvo … » Read

As the classical music world in the U.K. cautiously begins to contemplate life after the pandemic, a critic asks, “What can we expect from our opera houses and orchestras?” While acknowledging that the end may be in sight, Ancrew … » Read

Mills College, home to the Center for Contemporary Music, alma mater to Steve Reich, Dave Brubeck, and Laurie Anderson, creative home to John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Anthony Braxton, and other contemporary composer icons, has announced that it … » Read