Joseph Flummerfelt, early architect of the Spoleto Festival, longtime Westminster Choir Artistic Director, founder of the New York Choral Artists, died on Friday at the age of 82. The Charleston Post-Courier cites the cause as a stroke. He was … » Read

In April The Shed will become the largest new arts space to open in New York in nearly six decades. Costing more than half a billion dollars, the new performance center on Manhattan’s West Side will feature an opening program shaped … » Read

On Feb. 28 a leader in Maryland’s legislature threw a life buoy to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in the form of a proposed $3.2 million appropriation. Maggie McIntosh [pictured], a Baltimore Democrat and chair of the House … » Read

From Anne-Sophie Mutter: André Previn has for more than 70 years illuminated this often dark world with his extraordinary gifts, his superb intelligence and wit. We were companions in music for four decades and closest and dearest … » Read

Among his many music directorships, André Previn took the artistic helm of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from Carlo Maria Giulini in 1985. At first, it seemed a match made in heaven, given all of Previn’s Hollywood film scoring … » Read

The New York City Ballet and its training school, the School of American Ballet, have announced new leadership and a new management structure, ending months of speculation as to who would succeed former Artistic Director Peter Martins, who … » Read

Was it deliberate provocation or a tongue-in-cheek prank? There is little agreement about why the St. Petersburg Concert Choir elected to celebrate Defender of the Fatherland Day on Feb. 23 with a performance of a song about the total nuclear … » Read

The announcement on Feb. 26 that the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition has been scheduled for this June dispelled rumors that the  event might have to be cancelled . The 61-year-old competition, launching pad for some of the … » Read

A negative review by a New York Times theater critic can be the kiss of death for a production hoping to make it to Broadway. But Be More Chill , by composer and lyricist Joe Iconis, is proving to be a hardy survivor, thanks mainly to social … » Read

In a sudden move still left unexplained, Terrence Dwyer is out as president of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, previously the Orange County Performing Arts Center, in Costa Mesa, CA. He had been in the job since 2006. The center in a … » Read