A federal judge in Los Angeles has dismissed a 2019 suit against Universal Music Group (UMG) for the loss of over 100,000 audio recordings in a 2008 warehouse fire in Hollywood. The artists whose work was destroyed represent a who’s who of … » Read

MILAN--The Italian government has declared all theaters, cinemas and museums remain closed due to Covid-19 until April 13 and surely into May. When the stay-at-home ruling was first passed a month ago, Dario Franceschini, the Culture Minister, … » Read

Since its founding in 1945, the MAV Orchestra in Budapest has taken classical music on the road, literally traveling by rail to small towns throughout Hungary to perform. In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, its players are giving a new … » Read

Hope for the dissipation of the coronavirus continues to fade, as orchestras and opera companies announce the cancellations of their subscription series. Festivals, too, are beginning to follow suit. Among them is the Opera Theater of St. Louis, … » Read

The Indianapolis Symphony, whose performances have been cancelled through May 27, has  placed its musicians and stagehands on unpaid furlough and laid off about half of its administrative staff. Healthcare coverage will continue through May. … » Read

Score One for the musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra musicians, the first group of employees to be furloughed by Kennedy Center on the very day the CARES Act was signed. A statement received from Edgardo Malaga Jr., President of the … » Read

The New York Philharmonic has been forced to reinstate the two musicians it  fired in September 2018, principal oboe Liang Wang and associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey. Beyond citing complaints of “misconduct” by … » Read

Albert K. (“Nick”) Webster, chief administrator of the New York Philharmonic from 1975-1990, died on April 3. He was 82. Webster arrived at the Philharmonic in 1962 as assistant to Managing Director Carlos Mosely. A graduate of … » Read

In some rare but welcome business-as-usual news, three orchestras have named new key conductors within the last 48 hours. Up first was Denmark’s   Odense Symphony Orchestra, which named Frenchman Pierre Bleuse as its next chief … » Read

On April 7, over 250 artists will gather online for a performance of Pauline Oliveros’s six-hour The Lunar Opera: Deep Listening for _Tunes . The brainchild of Sean Griffin, a founder of the avant-garde opera company Opera Povera, the … » Read