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

LONDON—Narratively inferior to both Simon Boccanegra and Don Carlos , works that sit either side of it in Verdi’s chronology, La Forza del Destino is as hokey a tale as he ever set. It’s more a concatenation of coincidences than … » Read

Music Director Barbara Hannigan and Artistic Director Thomas W. Morris have announced the program for this year’s Ojai Music Festival. Now in its 73 rd year, 2019 will be Morris’s final Festival after 16 years at the helm, a period … » Read

Composers Louis Andriessen and Colin Matthews are among the over 500 signatories to an open letter protesting proposed cuts to the British classical music station BBC Radio 3. The voices urging the U.K.’s national broadcaster to reconsider … » Read

He was for many years associated with Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland , turning out ten brilliant orchestral works and an opera based on that literary theme, over the course of a quarter of a century. Of those efforts, Final Alice … » Read

There was a definite buzz in the air for the second of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Carnegie Hall concerts on March 20. Reviews suggested Kirill Gerstein had scored a major hit a fortnight earlier on the BSO’s home turf with the … » Read

As the boundaries among genres continue to fade, so does the Mostly Mozart Festival’s metamorphosis continue from a series of classical music concerts to, basically, anything goes. The 2019 festival, July 20-August 10, is not, in fact … » Read

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