Countertenor and University of Michigan faculty member David Daniels was arrested yesterday in Ann Arbor, MI, along with his husband, Scott Walters. They face extradition to Texas, where they have been accused by one Samuel Schultz of rape, eight … » Read

Peter Oundjian is to be the next music director of the Colorado Music Festival. He comes to the post after having served as artistic advisor last summer, an experience that he apparently found favorable. Oundjian is the former longtime music … » Read

Why? That’s the question one might well ask when learning that Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications behemoth under suspicion of breaking trade sanctions against Iran and stealing trade secrets, has “finished” Schubert’s … » Read

From Bingo to Bartók , a new report published by the London based not-for-profit Orchestras Live and the City of London Sinfonia, highlights how classical music is being used to support the wellbeing of older people by countering the … » Read

If much of Carnegie Hall’s 2019-20 season is to be devoted to the sestercennial, or 250 th anniversary, of Beethoven’s birth, the entirety of it is to be dedicated to the centennial of the Hall’s godfather and (literal) savior, … » Read

CHICAGO—It’s probably inevitable, and not entirely unwelcome, that a music director would want to perform a complete cycle of the Beethoven symphonies with his home orchestra. The 2019-20 season marks Riccardo Muti’s 10 th year … » Read

The Oakland Symphony’s performance of Florence Price’s Third Symphony on Jan. 25 was a further step in the (re)discovery of this long-neglected female African American composer. Under the baton of Michael Morgan, the evening’s … » Read

The 54 th edition of the Great Performers series for 2019-2020 will include five of the world’s leading ensembles on its Symphonic Masters series. Gianandrea Noseda brings the National Symphony Orchestra to New York for a concert … » Read

A new partnership between Nonesuch and New Amsterdam Records promises to focus on recording music by “several generations of American composers.” The first composers are Caroline Shaw, LA-based Daniel Wohl, and William Brittelle, one … » Read

Next season will see several firsts at the Los Angeles Opera, the most enticing being the premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s first collaborative opera, Eurydice , based on Sarah Ruhl’s 2003 play, which tells the Orpheus myth from the … » Read