In June, the Leipzig Bach Festival held a “Top 50 Bach Cantata Countdown”: 12 concerts—two per day, with four, and sometimes five cantatas each—counting down to No. 1. This curated craziness, June 11-21, was the brainchild … » Read

The Metropolitan Museum commemorated July 4 with David Lang’s 2014 choral work The National Anthems . The five-movement, 24-minute piece was performed three times (for free) during the afternoon by the Clarion Choir and the Catalyst … » Read

A $1.75 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has breathed new life into the effort to restore and preserve the National Opera House, a 1890s-era Queen Anne-style manor in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh. In 1941, Mary Cardwell … » Read

In all likelihood, tickets to the San Francisco Symphony’s October 2 tribute to Michael Tilson Thomas are going fast, not so much for the starry guest roster as for the sheer “have to be there” impulse it generates among the … » Read

Tito Muñoz, who has been serving as interim music director of the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) Orchestra, will assume the post permanently in the fall, with the title of director and principal conductor and visiting professor of … » Read

One of the many casualties of the war in Gaza has been the branch of Palestine’s Edward Said National Conservatory of Music. Founded in 1993, it once had well-equipped offices in Gaza City, three pianos and storerooms full of instruments … » Read

Courtney Crouse has joined the LSU School of Music as Associate Professor and the Janice Harvey Pellar Endowed Chair of Voice. She has pursued an international career as a mezzo-soprano, and served on the voice faculty at Oklahoma City University … » Read

The Glimmerglass Festival, which opens its season on July 10 with Oklahoma!, has already announced its 2027 iteration, which promises 30 mainstage performances running in repertoire July 12 to August 22, 2027. Stephen Sondheim’s Into the … » Read

Robert Kimball, the musical theater historian who in 1982 uncovered long-buried scores by Gershwin, Porter, Richard Rodgers, et al. in a New Jersey warehouse, died in a Manhattan hospital on July 1. He was 86 and had been ill for several years. … » Read

Philip Glass’s new symphony finally had its premiere on July 5 at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Karen Kamensek conducting. The work, formally known as Symphony No.15 Lincoln , was commissioned by the National Symphony … » Read