Opinion There is a scene that keeps replaying in the history of great orchestras. A powerful man — usually a conductor, occasionally a board — decides that someone must go. No hearing is held. No musicians are consulted. A terse … » Read

John Adams’s presence as a composer at Ojai 2026 was as pervasive as music director Esa-Pekka Salonen’s throughout much of the weekend. Indeed, one each of Adams’s screwball “trickster” pieces closed three … » Read

The Perlman Music Program (PMP) has named Catherine Cho as associate director and director of the Summer Music School. She will work closely with Toby Perlman, who founded the program in 1994 and has until now directed the summer program. Cho, a … » Read

In 2021, the World Health Organization estimated that about 57 million people globally suffered from dementia, a population that grows by about 10 million each year. An umbrella term for debilitating symptoms producing memory loss and impaired … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Clive Davis, the record company lawyer who became one of the music industry's most powerful figures, launching or resurrecting the careers of such superstars as Janis Joplin, Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana, and Alicia Keys, … » Read

LONDON—As with London buses, so with the operas of Monteverdi. You wait ages to catch one and then two come along at once. A pair of them hit England’s summer festival stages over the same June weekend in a clash of diaries (as well … » Read

On June 19 Kennedy Center leadership submitted a court filing saying the arts center will remain open beyond the July 5 th date of an earlier announced two-year closure for renovation. Public access to the memorial exhibit to President John F. … » Read

The Berlin Philharmonic is planning to close its performance hall, the Philharmonie, for an eight-year renovation starting in 2032, the orchestra’s 150 th anniversary. A feasibility study obtained by Van Magazine estimates the project will … » Read

Italian conductor Antonello Manacorda is to be the new artistic and music director of the French orchestra Les Siècles. He succeeds François-Xavier Roth, who founded the Baroque specialist ensemble in 2003 and withdrew in 2024 … » Read

On June 13 five competing teams of composers and librettists gathered at Morehouse College for the fifth edition of the 96-Hour Opera Project at The Atlanta Opera’s NOW Festival. They were challenged to develop original stories centered on … » Read