CHICAGO—The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has teamed up with the Art Institute of Chicago for chamber concerts at the museum. Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Music Director Sir Andrew Davis is a frequent CSO guest conductor. For seven seasons … » Read

In what it describes as one of its largest ever individual gifts, the Banff Centre has received a “transformational” amount in honor of Calgary-born philanthropist, Mrs. Jenny Belzberg, from her children. The donors do not wish … » Read

David Alan Cooper [pictured] is to be the new principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He succeeds Dale Clevenger, who retired in 2013 after 47 years with the orchestra. Daniel Gingrich has been serving as acting principal. Cooper has … » Read

With hundreds of performances at the Edinburgh Fringe , standing out from the crowd presents a challenge. The Mumble , a website, is offering performers “a digitally sophisticated” review and interview for £50 ($65). A review … » Read

As anticipated, Apple CEO Tim Cook in a speech today about upcoming product changes announced that iTunes, which kicked off the digital downloading, then streaming revolution when it launched 16 years ago, is to be phased out. Instead of iTunes, … » Read

Canadian-born violinist Nikki Chooi, a co-concertmaster in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra during the 2016-17 season, is the new concertmaster of the Buffalo Philharmonic. He succeeds Dennis Kim, who stepped down at the end of the 2017-18 … » Read

Let’s get the gripe out of the way first. The New York Philharmonic’s season-closing “Music of Conscience” series is a very fine idea, but what Brahms’s Tragic Overture and Mozart’s C Minor Piano Concerto have … » Read

Utah Symphony Associate Conductor Conner Gray Covington [pictured] has been given the additional position of principal conductor of the Deer Valley Music Festival, summer home of the Utah Symphony, for the next two seasons. Summer of 2019 sees … » Read

It must be a young composer’s dream to be programmed by John Adams as one of the musicians whose creative force he sees as “the future of American music.” In the case of Gabriella Smith’s Carrot Revolution , featured on an … » Read

Eva Kleinitz, artistic director of the Opéra national du Rhin, died on May 30 at the age of 47. The cause was cancer. In his blog, German critic Manuel Brug writes, “Eva Kleinitz’s enthusiasm for great artists knew no bounds … » Read