A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Central Lancashire, Lancaster University, and the University of Gävle in Sweden suggests that listening to music substantially inhibits creativity. An article in the journal … » Read

Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia, a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer, described as “one of the finest scholars in all of post-colonial Africa,” died on March 13 in Legon, a suburb of the Ghanaian capital of Accra. He was 97. During … » Read

Christina Scheppelmann, artistic director general of Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, is to be the next general director of the Seattle Opera; she succeeds Aidan Lang, who exits after four years to be general director of Welsh National … » Read

In announcing its upcoming season, the revitalized Louisville Orchestra also announced that the primary source of its turnaround, Music Director Teddy Abrams, planned to stay put. In fact Abrams, now 31, has extended his role at the artistic helm … » Read

Jennifer Turner [pictured], executive VP and managing director of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, in Orange Country, CA, is to be the president and CEO of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, effective in May. She succeeds Kathleen … » Read

A survey in the U.K. last month suggested that a fulltime career working in the arts is an almost Dickensian experience marked by  low pay and exploitative hours, with little expectation that conditions will improve.   New data … » Read

BERLIN — Nowhere is The Magic Flute more over-analyzed and over-fetishized than in the German-speaking world. So the stakes were especially high for director Yuval Sharon when he agreed to stage a new production for the Berlin Staatsoper. … » Read

The Czech National Symphony Orchestra (CNSO) has selected American-born conductor Steven Mercurio as its new music director as of 2019-2020 season. He succeeds Libor Pešek, in the position since 2007. Mercurio, no stranger to the CNSO, has … » Read

BERKELEY, CA--Anticipation couldn’t have been running much higher when Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, arrived in Berkeley last weekend. With three programs on the schedule, Friday evening through Sunday … » Read

Daniel E. Beckley, VP and general manager of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, former chief executive of the Charleston (SC) Symphony, is to be the new executive director of the Kansas City Symphony as of July 29. He will succeed Frank Byrne, … » Read