The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra has suddenly fired its director of artistic planning. Lam Fung, also a composer, had been in the job since 2017 and was its highest-ranking native-born employee. The orchestra offered no explanation; Lam Fung, … » Read

Kelly Tweeddale, president of Canada’s Vancouver Symphony and its School of Music, is to be the next executive director of the San Francisco Ballet, one of the three largest ballet companies in the U.S. She starts in September and succeeds … » Read

Too busy to commit to a multi-concert subscription, or too financially strapped to spring for more than a concert at a time? The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) has a solution for you. Music lovers unable to take advantage of the discounts … » Read

If you find the prospect of sitting through Wagner’s entire Ring cycle daunting, then you will at all costs want to avoid the Licht cycle of Karlheinz Stockhausen. Written over a 25-year-period beginning in 1978,  it includes an opera … » Read

Suppose the number of soldiers who died in the First World War was less important than their relative heights? What if our news consisted purely of silent imagery rather than being illuminated (or obfuscated) by the spoken word? And is it … » Read

The Orlando Philharmonic has joined the ever-burgeoning group of orchestras to hire David Hyslop as its interim executive director. He succeeds board president Mary Palmer and founding musician Mark Fischer, who have been serving as co-interims … » Read

The Sarasota (FL) Orchestra (SO) may be forced to move outside of city limits. Bowing to pressure from a coalition of tennis players and park proponents--DBA as "Preserve Payne Park"--the Sarasota City Commission on May 20 turned down the … » Read

Jesse Rosen has set the wheels in motion for his retirement from the League of American Orchestras. He made the announcement today at the League’s annual national conference in Nashville. When he leaves in September 2020, Rosen will have … » Read

Michael Tilson Thomas is to undergo “a cardiac procedure,” necessitating the cancellation of all dates between June 17 and September 3 .The operation will take place in Cleveland and follow his June 13-16 performances of … » Read

At a hastily assembled press conference today at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Culture Senator Klaus Lederer announced that Daniel Barenboim’s contract as general music director has been extended another five years, to 2027. The … » Read