CAST (Community Arts Stabilization Trust), a San Francisco nonprofit that works to find affordable space for arts groups in the city, has announced plans to create a four-story community arts hub in the vacant 1907 Dempster Printing Building. … » Read

With the launch of “Symphony in the City,” the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has announced plans for four free concerts in distinctive venues around the city. As part of the BSO’s Beethoven 2020 project celebrating the … » Read

St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, burial place of J.S. Bach, was vandalized on New Year’s Eve when 25 panes of glass were smashed by rocks. Two stained-glass panels and more than 20 Art Nouveau panes were destroyed, according to Deutsche … » Read

Maxim Lando may be only 17, but thanks to a newsworthy stint deputizing for the injured left hand of his mentor Lang Lang, he’s already had a taste of fame and fortune. Add to that a first prize at the 2018 Young Concert Artists (YCA) … » Read

Opera director Harry Kupfer, who oversaw the Komische Opera for over 20 years, died in Berlin on December 30, 2019, “after a lengthy illness,” according to his management agency, Arsis.  He was 84. Born in Berlin on August 12, … » Read

One man’s garbage can become another man’s inspiration. When Favio Chavez arrived at the Cateura landfill near Paraguay's capital of Asuncion, he was an environmental consultant intent on creating a recycling project. The project came … » Read

Having  denied the Sarasota Orchestra’s bid to build a new concert hall on seven acres of a 39-acre public park (favoring some well-organized tennis players’ opposition to it), the four Sarasota city commissioners are now asking … » Read

Soundstreams, which self-defines as “the largest global presenter of new Canadian music,” has a new executive director. He is arts consultant Menon Dwarka, whose background includes stints as music program director at the Harlem … » Read

Ivan Hewett, classical music critic for The Telegraph , doesn’t especially like the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s (VPO) New Year’s Day Concert, which reaches more than 60 million viewers in almost a hundred countries around … » Read

In a year-end roundup rife with local boosterism (the Los Angeles Philharmonic is “surely the most successful arts organization of the century"), Los Angeles Times critic Mark Swed notes the town’s “near-contagious institutional … » Read