Gustavo Dudamel conducted Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the Los Angeles Philharmonic last weekend in Disney Hall, his maiden voyage with the composer’s most demanding work, and arguably the summit of his farewell season. When Klaus … » Read

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO )  appears to be spreading its programming wings in 2026–27 season, opening with a jazz gala on September 25 with Music Director Jonathon Heyward and the orchestra spotlighting jazz vocalist Samara … » Read

Xian Zhang will launch her second season as music director of the Seattle Symphony on Sept. 19 with a gala to include Yuja Wang performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. The season’s start will also introduce patrons to the … » Read

Since its return to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban “outlaws music, and criminalizes performing or even listening to music,” writes Sarah Dawood in Index on Censorship . Thousands of musical instruments and sound … » Read

Joshua Robison, longtime partner, manager, adviser and facilitator for Michael Tilson Thomas, died on February 22. He passed away in his sleep at his apartment in San Francisco. He had sustained a fall last August and was in the process of … » Read

The 69 th season of The Dallas Opera (TDO) features four mainstage productions— The Elixir of Love , The Cunning Little Vixen , Turandot , and Lohengrin —as well as two family operas— The Little Prince and The Bremen Town … » Read

A well-sourced article in the Washington Post makes the case that the Washington National Opera’s abrupt departure from The Kennedy Center, announced in early January, was the result of truly artful maneuvering by Artistic Director … » Read

Beginning in the fall of 2027, Stephen Wyrczynski and Ori Kam will join Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music as professors of viola following an international search. They will succeed James Dunham and Ivo-Jan van der Werff, who are … » Read

The Church of England is underwriting the launch of “The Choir Project” by the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) to the tune of £400,000.  Although there were 207 cathedral choirs in England in 2024, a record number, … » Read

Benjamin (Ben) K. Rowe is to step down from the Heifetz international Music Institute after 12 years, ten of them as president and CEO. He exits on September 30, the close of the Institute’s 30 th - anniversary season, and will take the … » Read