NEW YORK — Charles Wuorinen, winner of th e 1970 Pulitzer Prize in Music and composer of the operas B rokeback Mountain and Haroun and the Sea of Stories , died from injuries sustained in a fall last September. He was 81. Wuorinen, who … » Read

Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and the Los Angeles Music Center have cancelled activities for all of their venues through the end of March. Broadway shows are dark though April 12. As of this writing, virtually all U.S. orchestras and opera … » Read

Over the next 13 months, five pianists will participate in the American Pianists Awards. Given every four years by the Indianapolis-based American Pianists Association, the award, known as the Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship, includes … » Read

New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio has chosen Gonzalo Casals, who currently leads the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in SoHo, as the city’s new cultural affairs commissioner. Lohman, who assumes the position on April 13, replaces Tom Finkelpearl, … » Read

The classical music industry is facing one of the most challenging times it has known, teetering into the coronavirus-crisis hurricane with no sense of how long before it blows itself out. Even prior to today’s avalanche of concert … » Read

Carnegie Hall will close as of March 13, inclusive of all events, including educational programming. Reopening is projected to be April 1. The New York Philharmonic has also cancelled all events through March 31. The Met Opera has suspended … » Read

As anticipated, the San Francisco Symphony, whose home base at Davies Hall has been shuttered since last week, has cancelled its March 17 and 18 Carnegie Hall performances as well as its entire, 14-performance European tour, March 21-April 7. It … » Read

The Rotterdam Philharmonic’s U.S. tour, scheduled to start this weekend at Lincoln Center and cover multiple cities through March 26, has been cancelled, due to the White House’s restrictions on travel to the U.S. from Europe. The … » Read

The Philharmonia Orchestra of London has appointed Alexander Van Ingen as its new chief executive, starting in September. Van Ingen is the current chief of the Academy of Ancient Music, a post he has held for three years . Before that he was … » Read

Violinist Itzhak Perlman  has cancelled his tour of the U.S., scheduled to start with the Atlanta Symphony tonight and continue with five recitals with pianist Rohan De Silva through March 22. In Atlanta he’s replaced by … » Read