Christopher Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award winner in history, has died. He was 91. Plummer died Friday morning, Feb. 5, 2021, at his … » Read

Among the slew of recent choral albums and vocal recitals, many of them featuring new music, three in particular stand out for imaginative programming, virtuoso performances, and having something to say about the times in which we live. The … » Read

HarrisonParrott has announced two new signings, guitarist Sean Shibe [pictured] for worldwide management and the Baroque quartet NeverMind for general management. Shibe, formerly with Rayfield Allied in London, recently signed a multiple album … » Read

The arrival of the Biden administration has raised the hopes of America’s beleaguered performing arts community. Those with a sense of history point to the Great Depression-era Federal Theater Project (FTP) as one example of how the … » Read

Shifting entirely online for the first time, the  Sphinx Competition capped its 24th edition last weekend by awarding first prize to Samuel Abraham Vargas Teixeira, a violinist from Caracas, Venezuela. An alumni of El Sistema, the … » Read

Chicago’s Hubbard Street Dance Company has turned to one of its own, former company dancer Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, as its new artistic director. She replaces Glenn Edgerton, in the position since 2009, and takes over on March 1, 2021. … » Read

Stefana Atlas and Samantha Scully, both formerly of Columbia Artists, have formed a new firm, Arabella Arts, with an initial roster of 30 artists. Almost all of them were with that now-defunct powerhouse of classical music management, where Atlas … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra has shelved plans to resume live performances in Severance Hall next month due to the continuing threat of the coronavirus. Among the events cancelled are the April 26 John Williams Conducts program. Now the earliest time … » Read

Ching-Lien Wu, artistic manager of the Chorus of Dutch National Opera since 2014, is to become choirmaster of the Opéra national de Paris as of April 26. The Taipei-born conductor is the first woman to hold the post at the French opera … » Read

TRG Arts (The Results Group for the Arts) has recently released “Arts and Culture Comeback Planning: January 2021,” the latest in its series of studies related to the coronavirus pandemic’s impact, focused in this instance on … » Read