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Carnegie Hall today announced that Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii will replace Murray Perahia who has regretfully withdrawn from his scheduled May 10 recital for medical reasons.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

The Metropolitan Opera has announced the names of the nine singers who have advanced to the last phase of this year’s Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the 65 th in the organisation’s history. The semi-finals, which were … » Read

SANTA MONICA—Universal Music Group (UMG) has announced a new unified management structure for its Classics and Jazz Division in what it calls an attempt to focus its worldwide artist development and marketing strategy under a unified … » Read

It’s probably not that he’s short of friends, but irrepressible violinist Ray Chen is adopting a novel approach in his quest for a duo partner this summer, while at the same time aiming to answer the prayers of anyone who has ever … » Read

Musicians of the San Francisco S ymphony have announced that they intend to join striking colleagues from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on the picket line should the ongoing labor dispute not be settled by the time they arrive in Chicago on … » Read