The Aspen Music Festival and School is postponing its opening by two weeks and shortening its season from eight weeks to six. Scheduled to launch July 2, it will now begin July 16, with programming changes to be announced at a later date. The two … » Read

Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter announced a new round of personnel cuts on Tuesday, furloughing 250 staffers in the Center’s marketing, development, and education departments as well as administrators at the National Symphony … » Read

It’s rare to see a work that genuinely challenges the form and opens a window onto what a genre might become, but Philip Venables’s Denis & Katya at Philadelphia Opera’s O19 Festival was the most brilliantly original … » Read

Most opera companies have been forced to cancel the remainder of their seasons due to COVID-19. Those listed below have alerted the public. Opera Companies Atlanta Opera Boston Lyric Opera Canadian Opera Company Chicago Opera Theater Dallas Opera … » Read

Judy Drucker, credited with bringing classical music to South Florida, died Monday in Miami at age 91 of complications from Alzheimer’s. Drucker founded the Concert Association of Florida in 1967 and remained at its helm for 40 years, … » Read

Kenneth Wentworth, founder and chairman of the artist management firm Jonathan Wentworth Associates, Ltd., named for his son, died on March 22 in Washington, D.C. He was 92. A pianist who studied under Irwin Freundlich at the Julliard School, he … » Read

The Festival has just announced that it is "suspended." Following is the Festival's own announcement, posted verbatim in the interest of time. It is marked March 31. » Read

Two more festivals have cancelled their upcoming seasons, both of them key players in the realm of contemporary music. The Aldeburgh Festival, founded in 1948 by composer Benjamin Britten, tenor Peter Pears, and librettist/producer Eric Crozier, … » Read

What do you do when you find yourself sitting around in airports, on planes, or in hotel bedrooms? If you’re international concert pianist Stephen Hough, you get out a notebook and jot down ideas. For years, many of his musings—or … » Read

On March 26 the board of regents of the University of Michigan (UM) approved the dismissal of the disgraced opera star David Daniels from his tenured position in the School of Music. Daniels’s fall from the heights of international fame as … » Read