Arts organizations that choose to go dormant for the 2020-21 season may be missing a vital chance to stay “dialed in” and serve their communities, according to Matthew VanBesien, president of the University Musical Society in Ann … » Read

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Within mere hours of one another, the Chicago Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra on Thursday announced plans for their new fall seasons. Both consist of newly recorded performances in their respective, audience-empty halls. Both will use new … » Read

It’s a rare to encounter all four symphonies of that cranky, visionary American iconoclast Charles Ives live over the span of just a week. That’s what happened six months ago in Walt Disney Concert Hall, in the last purely symphonic … » Read

In another chapter of its laudable support of the musical arts, the Swiss watch manufacturer Rolex has sponsored three Rolex Perpetual Music concerts. “Our aim,” Arnaud Boetsch, Rolex Director of Communication & Image, told … » Read

Like most arts groups, the Pittsburgh Symphony has taken a huge financial hit, laid still by the pandemic. About 75 percent of its staff have taken pay cuts, and yesterday the orchestra said 30 percent will either be moved to part-time status, … » Read

After a six-month absence, live music will be returning to London’s Southbank Center in the Royal Festival Hall. “My heart is singing,” Gillian Moore, the Center’s director of music, tells The Guardian . “It has been … » Read

Black symphony and opera conductors were not always as rare a commodity as they are today. During the middle decades of the previous century, a generation of African American maestros regularly manned the podiums of major orchestras such as … » Read

The Ohio-based Carpe Diem String Quartet has a new cellist in Ariana Nelson, a member of the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and on the faculty of Texas Southern University. Nelson, who studied at Juilliard with Darrett Adkins, joins the … » Read

Ann Hobson Pilot became the first black female principal player in a major orchestra back in 1969 when the Boston Symphony hired her as its principal harp. Retired since 2009, she is now 76 and living in Florida, having survived all manner of … » Read