The U.K.’s official break from the European Union is scarcely two weeks old and a dispute about visa-free touring is already roiling the British music world. Press accounts report that Boris Johnson’s Tory government has rejected an … » Read

Forced out of their assorted venues and onto the web, On-Site Opera and Beth Morrison Projects have taken their pre-pandemic mandate to expand the artform to the next level. Washington Post music critic Michael Andor Brodeur is impressed. Founded … » Read

For the first time in its history, the 2021 Bach Medal of the City of Leipzig will be shared by two recipients—the musicologists Hans-Joachim Schulze and Christoph Wolff.  Established in 2003 to recognize individuals whose research or … » Read

LONDON (AP) — Simon Rattle is set to leave his job as music director at the London Symphony Orchestra to lead the Munich-based Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2023, the two organizations said Monday. He will retain a role with the LSO … » 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

While some arts organizations struggled to keep their balance when the pandemic struck, others found ways to adapt. Some, like New York’s innovative PROTOTYPE Festival, which opened January 8, even managed to thrive, devising ingenious ways … » Read

Prompted by the pandemic, organizations and artists have sought to stream their performances from their individual platforms, sometimes for a fee, more often, not. While Medici.TV and the Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall have been … » Read

The pandemic’s devastating impact on the creative arts is lending a long-absent vitality to the concept of an “arts worker.“ The idea that everyone from an orchestra musician to a museum curator, a ballet dancer to a fashion … » Read

Over the last two weeks (thank goodness) of 2020, Musical America ran a series about ten U.S. and U.K. organizations that we felt had pivoted the most gracefully, creatively, and imaginatively during the pandemic. In the tradition of making … » Read

The American Federation of Musicians’ Local Los Angeles-area chapter 47, representing some 6,000 musicians, has broken with tradition and elected, gasp, a woman to serve as its next president. Stephanie O’Keefe, a professional French … » Read