Joan Tower, who set the stage for female composers in the U.S., is to receive the Gold Baton in June at the League of American Orchestras' annual conference in Nashville. The League identifies the award as its highest honor. Tower’s Made in … » Read

Bondo Nyembwe, executive director of Academia Cesar Chavez, has set out to prove the power of music education to change the lives of his students. Three years ago, when he arrived at this dual-language charter school located in a largely Hispanic … » Read

The financially strapped Baltimore Symphony is getting some moral support from its City Council, which on Monday passed a resolution to ask the State to restore BSO funding to “pre-recession” levels. It noted that a “growing and … » Read

The New York City Ballet is attempting to dismiss former dancer Alexander Waterbury’s lawsuit against it. Waterbury is the School of American Ballet graduate who accused her former boyfriend and City Ballet principal Chase Finlay of sharing … » Read

The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2019-20 season announcement had barely made the rounds on the Web last week before social media was trumpeting another of its high-profile projects: performing at Sunday’s Academy Awards, as … » Read

An appropriate subtitle to New York City Ballet’s "New Combinations" program—William Forsythe’s Herman Schmerman (1992), Justin Peck’s Principia (2019), and Kyle Abraham’s The Runaway (2018)—might be … » Read

Canadian Olympic gold medalist Samantha Quek learned a lesson at the opera the hard way. While attending a performance of Donizetti’s Lucia Di Lammermoor at the Vienna State Opera on February 18, she was asked to leave the hall after she … » Read

NEW YORK--German composer and conductor Matthias Pintscher has become a regular with the New York Philharmonic since helming one of the three orchestras required for Stockhausen’s Gruppen back in 2012. Since then, he’s led the group … » Read

As part of its “African-American Pioneer” series during Black History month, the Atlanta Journal Constitution has chosen to profile Marian Anderson. Born in Philadelphia on Feb. 27, 1897, Anderson began singing at age six in her … » Read

It took three pianists to make Green Book , the 2019 Academy Award winner for Best Picture—Don Shirley, whose music is at the movie’s center; actor Mahershala Ali, who portrays Shirley on screen; and Kris Bowers, who actually plays … » Read