BOCA RATON—A 100-year-old orchestral player has been making the news this week. Melvin Lazerick told Florida’s CBS12 News that he is no musician, but he does admit to being an integral part of the 70-piece Florida Intergenerational … » Read

GENEVA—The Aga Khan has announced the establishment of the Aga Khan Music Awards (AKMA), which come with an eye-watering US$500,000 in prizes. The initial award ceremony will be held at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon from the 29 th to … » Read

SAN DIEGO—American soprano Susan Narucki has been named as inaugural Director of Arts and Community Engagement at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). Narucki, an influential advocate for new music who made her professional … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—A New York judge on Tuesday dismissed portions of a lawsuit filed by former Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine against the company last year. Levine was the Met’s music or artistic director from 1976-2016, … » Read

Rider University’s controversial $40 million deal to sell Westminster Choir College to a Chinese company has hit a new hurdle according to opponents of the plan. The latest revelations suggest that the terms of the contract would allow … » Read

Carnegie Hall today announced that Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii will replace Murray Perahia who has regretfully withdrawn from his scheduled May 10 recital for medical reasons. Tsujii will perform works by Satie (the three Gymnopédies … » Read

Opera and surrealism make strange bedfellows, yet they have been known to cohabit, sometimes productively. Take Shostakovich’s The Nose , Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel and Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre , for instance. They may not be … » Read

DETROIT—The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Interlochen Center for the Arts announced Monday that they would revive the classic DSO summer residency for the first time since 2006. This year’s events, which take place from July 24 to … » Read

CHICAGO–The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has announced the cancellation of a further week of CSOA-presented programs as the ongoing strike by CSO musicians drags on. Concerts from Tuesday, March 26 through to Tuesday, April 2 at … » Read

Saturday night (March 23) at David Geffen Hall, continued over the road at 10:30pm in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, was a case of smart programming. For starters, pairing John Adams’s searing, introspective The Wound Dresser with Charles … » Read