The University of North Carolina School of the Arts has hired Tony Woodcock,  former president of the New England Conservatory, onetime CEO at a number of orchestras, as interim dean of the School of Music. He succeeds Brian Cole for the … » Read

New voices; new sounds; new worlds. It’s an ambitious ask for a projected 75-minute concert, but if anyone can deliver it would be ICE. In the event, the International Contemporary Ensemble, a lineup of America’s brightest and bravest … » Read

Nonprofit workers are generally underpaid and expected to spend more than 40 hours a week on the job. Rare is the nonprofit worker who gets overtime pay. Their supposed reward, other than that inadequate paycheck, is the satisfaction of working … » Read

Yannick Nézet-Séguin has cancelled two of his four scheduled concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. The orchestra, booked for a total of eight nights, will perform its first two concerts … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera and James Levine have settled their assorted claims and counter claims against one another. Neither side will comment on the terms or on whether any money changed hands. The news emerged Tuesday. "The legal dispute with … » Read

In a pull-no-punches editorial, The Philadelphia Inquirer has weighed in on the Curtis Institute of Music’s response(s) to decades-old allegations of sexual abuse by a revered violin pedagogue. Last month the newspaper reported that in the … » Read

NEW YORK – In 2013, the National Youth Orchestra of the United States (NYO-USA) was born—created at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute to give orchestral training to students ages 16-to-19 from all over the country. In 2013, … » Read

Pavarotti died almost 12 years ago, he has hardly disappeared. A major documentary by the Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard opened this past June to positive reviews, and recordings by the “King of the High Cs” remain popular … » Read

Generating audiences for classical music in the U.S. is a constant challenge. Nostalgia is the primary vehicle for marketing, Sue Elliott (no relation to MA’s editor), the recently named Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI) Director, tells … » Read

Conductor Leonard Slatkin has responded to Tim Smith’s suggestion last week that Baltimore Symphony Music Director Marin Alsop should step into the fray on the side of the musicians. Slatkin recounts how he had been at the artistic helms of … » Read