By 2025 as many as one million people in the U.K. may suffer from dementia. While there is no cure for the condition, evidence suggests that music may reduce symptoms such as depression and agitation. A study by Sebastian Crutch, a … » Read

Since the end of the Cultural Revolution over 40 years ago, interest in western classical music has been booming in China. At least 40 million children reportedly now play the piano, producing an expanding market for recorded music as well as … » Read

Mark Richter, director of the Alamo City Opera, in Austin, TX, died last weekend at the age of 51. "He was the one that many, many years ago started the resurgence of the new opera here,” Kirstin Roach, the company’s music director, … » Read

Osmo Vänskä will  leave as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in 2022, but before he does, he will take up the post of music director of the Seoul Philharmonic as of next January. He succeeds Chung Myung-whun, who quit in … » Read

“What time’s the next elevator?” Karen Cargill (mimicking tenor Leo Slezak) might well have asked after she missed her entrance as Erda in Das Rheingold on Monday night (April 29) at the Metropolitan Opera. Just when we thought, … » Read

NEW YORK — Her character suffers through one of the most harrowing deathbed scenes in all of opera. But that doesn't faze Karita Mattila, who's looking forward to performing it as "quite an adventure." The Finnish soprano, noted for her … » Read

During the first quarter of 2019, Spotify passed the threshold of 100 million paying subscribers, an increase of 32 percent above the streaming service’s performance a year earlier. Although revenues for the first three months of the year … » Read

Jean Bowen Bloch, longtime chief of the Music Division of the New York Public Library and  director of the Central Research Library at 42 nd Street, died on April 27 in Washington, DC. She was 92 and was a very close friend of the late, … » Read

As the Sun Symphony Orchestra (SSO) prepares to launch its second season, Olivier Ochanine recently sat down with the Vi?t Nam News for an interview. The ensemble’s upbeat music director characterized the SSO’s first year as a … » Read

It takes a lot for a young jazz artist to get noticed. Just ask Musical America’s New Artist of the Month Emmet Cohen. For years, the 28-year-old has been an indefatigable presence on the New York scene, playing piano (he doubles on Hammond … » Read