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LA Phil Cancels Concerts; Hollywood Bowl Staff Evacuated

January 9, 2025 | Various news sources
The Los Angeles Philharmonic has cancelled concerts for this weekend, due to the winds and wildfires in the area. The Schumann and Brahms performances, January 9-12, conducted by Louis Langrée, will not be rescheduled. Refunds are … » Read
 

People in the News

Bryn's Back, but Only for a Few

January 9, 2025 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
Tonight, Bryn Terfel will take to the Metropolitan Opera stage as Baron Scarpia, opposite soprano Sondra Radvanovsky in Tosca . Long a Met favorite, the Welsh bass-baritone has been absent from the company for 13 years due to injury and a … » Read
 

Contests & Awards

Timo Andres Wins CMS Prize

January 9, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Timo Andres, noted Brooklyn-based composer and pianist, is the recipient of this year’s Elise L. Stoeger Prize, a biennial $25,000 cash award from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, intended to recognize significant contributions … » Read
 

Industry News

Ushers Reach Tentative Deal with Ensemble Arts/Kimmel

January 8, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Ushers for the Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts Philly—i.e. the Kimmel Center and affiliated venues—will not go on  strike as their union threatened earlier in the week. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage … » Read
 

Industry News

Saint-Saëns Brings Historic Organ Back to Centerstage

January 9, 2025 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
On Jan. 10 and 11, when Weicheng Zhao performs Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony with the San Diego Symphony (SDS), the Robert-Morton Theatre Organ will have its own coming-out party in the renovated Jacobs Music Center. The two concerts … » Read
 

Industry News

Nicola Benedetti: Funding Cuts Endanger Edinburgh Fest's Future

January 9, 2025 | Anthony Brown, Musical America
Entering her third year as director of the Edinburgh International Festival, Nicola Benedetti has sounded an alarm about the health of the ionic celebration and Scotland’s creative arts scene in general due to continued funding cuts. … » Read
 

Industry News

Grant Park Fest's 2025 Season, Guerrero's First at the Helm

January 8, 2025 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
The 2025 Grant Park Music Festival, the first for Giancarlo Guerrero in his role as artistic director and principal conductor, offers 20 programs during the ten weeks from June 11 to August 16. Most of the concerts will be at Millennium … » Read
 

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Kimmel Center Ushers May Strike

January 8, 2025 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
The ushers at the Academy of Music,  Kimmel Center, and the Miller Theater have rejected a Dec. 30 contract offer from Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts (POEA) management. As such, and since they are represented by IATSE … » Read
 

People in the News

Peter Yarrow Dies at 86

January 8, 2025 | John Rogers, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against … » Read
 

Industry News

(Top) Job Share at Welsh National Opera

January 8, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
The Welsh National Opera (WNO), coming up on its 80 th anniversary and struggling to survive in the face of Arts Council England’s decision to cut its funding by 35 percent, has its new management team: Adele Thomas and Sarah Crabtree, … » Read
 
 

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