Since modern cruise ships have come to resemble floating resorts in size and activity options, instability at sea is apparently no longer an issue. Perhaps that’s one reason the entertainment on Celebrity Cruises is soon to feature dancers … » Read

A life devoted to the arts may offer many rewards. Sadly, a large income is very rarely one of them. ArtsPay 2018, a U.K. survey of pay and earnings in the cultural sector, suggests that expectations of long unpaid hours that “wouldn't be … » Read

At first impression, Robert Ashley’s style of vocal writing seems tantamount to simplicity itself. Text typically unfolds on a single pitch, like the reciting tone of liturgical chant, in a continuous flow that seems undifferentiated by … » Read

For more than 45 years, San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet has been one of classical music’s agents provocateurs. Early forays into musical agitprop would have to include George Crumb’s anti-war polemic, Black Angels , and to a lesser … » Read

Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires will bring her world-travelled Partitura Project to the U.S. for the first time in 2020, as part of the 15 th biennial Gilmore Keyboard Festival, April 22 to May 10, in Kalamazoo, MI. Pires’s … » Read

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, soon to reach its centennial season, is in the market for a new CEO as of February 12. Peter Gistelinck , in the job since March of 2014, is no longer in the corner office; the orchestra has declined to offer an … » Read

Brown University and the New York-based architectural firm REX have unveiled designs for the university’s new 94,500-square-foot performing arts center,  to be located on the former site of the 19 th -century Sharpe House, moved to … » Read

For its 40 th -anniversary season, the Atlanta Opera will mount four operas on its mainstage, the 2,750-seat Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center (named for Cobb County, a suburb of Atlanta). Its two-opera “Discovery” series will use … » Read

LOS ANGELES—A signature of Tan Dun’s most successful compositions is his gift for mixing putatively disparate elements into powerfully original amalgams. To make that happen means being able to take serious risks—and the premise … » Read

In an unusual turn of events, the Polar Music Prize this year is awarded to three entities: a pop artist, classical artist, and a foundation dedicated to bringing arts education to underserved children around the world. Each receives one million … » Read