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

In its year-end review of classical music, The San Francisco Chronicle , makes the case that it’s been a great year for women. “Maybe,” writes critic Joshua Kosman, “we [can] even give Bach and Beethoven and the rest of … » Read

Calling the soon-to-end decade “transformative” for classical music, the Chicago Sun-Times points out a few highlights in more or less in chronological order. They begin—literally—with the arrival on September 19, 2010, of … » Read

For opera to retain its relevance today it needs to be either timely or timeless. Alban Berg’s Wozzeck (1925), based on Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck , one of the most ahead-of-its-time plays ever written, happens to be both. An … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO — It was a tumultuous year in the opera world, a year in which sexual harassment allegations against superstar Plácido Domingo prompted his disappearance from American stages and sparked deep soul-searching. Opera … » Read

The New Year brings with it the release of the United Kingdom’s annual Honors List recognizing the achievements of more than 1,000 people who have contributed in some manner to the greater UK community. While many of those on the list are … » Read

As part of her Best of the Year wrap-up (“outstanding music around the UK this year distracted us from woes about the planet and Brexit”), Fiona Maddocks does a quick run down of all the changes anticipated at major UK orchestras: … » Read