The second half of this year’s Festival d’Aix-en-Provence maintained the standards of the opening week, albeit with a healthy dose of directorial controversy and two significant last-minute substitutions. With nine performances, … » Read

Kerry Smith, VP of artistic planning at the Utah Symphony |Utah Opera will return to her home town to take the same job with the Minnesota Orchestra as of September 1. She’ll be working alongside Music Director Thomas … » Read

A coalition of 32 performing arts organizations have announced preliminary plans for the Vancouver (BC) Cultural Precinct, a proposal to create four new and/or substantially renovated performance venues at one of four possible sites in downtown … » Read

Bill McGlaughlin, founding host for 22 years of the syndicated radio show  Exploring Music , produced and distributed by WFMT in Chicago, died on July 21 at age 82. The cause was cardiac arrest, according to the Chicago Tribune . From 1980 … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery have agreed to delay closing their $81 billion merger well into next year, a stunning move that arrives as a judge continues to consider a challenge from 12 states seeking to block the … » Read

When the Boston Symphony Orchestra administration fired its Music Director Andris Nelsons without consulting its musicians, they were shocked and incensed . But the deed had been done, the contract terminated, and, authoritarian as it seemed, … » Read

If there were any doubts about the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence’s commitment to new work following the unexpected death in 2025 of General Director Pierre Audi they were laid to rest this year. Francesco Filidei’s Accabadora , … » Read

The following completes the coverage of the 2026 Glimmerglass productions scheduled for the mainstage. See also Part I, including a photo of Oklahoma! adapted to a high school auditorium. Madama Butterfly Francesca Zambello’s 2014 … » Read

In a move intended to stymie efforts on July 17 by Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to dismiss a case over their licensing deals with generative AI platforms Suno and Udio, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) has urged a New … » Read

Julian Wachner, fired from his high-profile post as director of music at Manhattan’s Trinity Church in 2022 after credible claims of past sexual misconduct surfaced, has pled guilty to five counts of possession of child sex abuse material … » Read