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

A program of non-blockbuster 19th-century piano quartets by Suk, Brahms, and Dvorák doesn’t sound like anything to write home about, really. Maybe not much to keep listeners awake, either. But the audience at Sunday’s concert … » Read

Patricia Kiernan Johnson, OPERA America’s director of marketing and communications for the last ten years, is making a swift transition. She leaves the New York-based trade group this week and starts at the Curtis Institute of Music on … » Read

Those fearing for the future of classical music should take heart from the March 2019 launch of Scala Radio, a new digital radio station in the U.K. premised on the belief that the classics can appeal to younger listeners. Research undertaken by … » Read

Danish tenor Sune Hjerrild hopes that Truelinked , an online startup he has developed, will enable vocalists to connect directly to presenters and better manage their own careers. While social media platforms can be useful in some professions, he … » Read