West London’s huge Olympia center, site of sprawling exhibitions and conventions, is due to get a £1bn ($1.25b) makeover. Recently approved development plans by the site’s owner YOO Capital and its project partner Deutsche … » Read

For the next year, the Baltimore Symphony will offer base pay of $84,696 per anum, with four weeks of paid vacation during a 38-week concert season, plus a monetary bonus for summer weeks that they are not in session. Benefits will carry through … » Read

The struggle to maintain Westminster Choir College’s Princeton, NJ, location—not to mention its student body, faculty, reputation, and highly prestigious choruses—continues unabated. Rider University, which merged with … » Read

It’s not fair to say that the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra were peeking at each other’s season-opening plans, but for sure there were strange and wonderful program similarities. Both orchestras have moved … » Read

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO) will soon be in the market for a new concertmaster. On Sept. 20 the MSO announced that after 25 years in the first chair, Frank Almond will retire at the conclusion of the 2019-2020 season. In a statement … » Read

Anne Midgette, chief classical music critic for The Washington Post since 2008, is leaving the paper. Midgette, known as the first female critic to write for The New York Times regularly when she started there in 2001, has decided to move on. Her … » Read

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and its musicians have reached a tentative agreement, according to a joint statement issued Saturday evening by the musicians and co-signed by Linda Moxley, BSO VP of marketing & communications, and Brian … » Read

Baltimore-based composer Christopher Rouse died yesterday, according to a statement from his publisher Boosey & Hawkes. He was 70. No cause of death was stated. Rouse was a prolific and oft-commissioned composer, with five symphonies and no … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera will bring Fire Shut Up My Bones to an as-yet-defined New York stage in as yet-defined future season. Composed by jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard with libretto by screenwriter Kasi Lemmons, the opera, premiered by the … » Read

The Cleveland Orchesta, which opens the Carnegie Hall season on October 3, has extended the contract of its music director, Franz Welser-Möst, for five additional years, through 2027. The Austrian conductor, now 59, will have been on the … » Read