The Kronos Quartet embraces a constantly changing repertoire that includes works by a multitude of composers and performers. But until now, what hasn’t changed in over 40 years are the four musicians who comprise the San Francisco-based … » Read

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America (VOA) while a number of law suits by employees are adjudicated. On April 22, Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered the … » Read

Barry Kosky, the 58-year-old Australian theater and opera director, is a man of many enthusiasms, loving everything from the Muppets and pop music to Vivaldi and Wagner. All that matters, he tells The Guardian , is “whether it touches the … » Read

After a year of negotiations aimed at maintaining the Welsh National Opera (WNO) as a full-time company and stopping a proposed 15 percent pay cut to the orchestra, 97 percent of the musicians of the Welsh National Opera (WNO) have voted to … » Read

In 2012 three Romanian art thieves stole seven paintings and drawings signed by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, Gauguin, Lucian Freud, and Meyer de Haan from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam. The three were caught and in 2013 confessed to the theft in a … » Read

“It’s frustrating... just gone overnight.” This terse lament from a student at Jacksonville University (JU) sums up the feelings of students impacted by the April 15 announcement of a dramatic reconfiguring of the school’s … » Read

New Sounds has dodged another bullet. On the air since 1982, the late-night WNYC program of contemporary and world music hosted by John Schaefer has once again survived attempts to kill it. In 2019, public pressure from longtime fans forced host … » Read

The reduction of the professional staff at the Kennedy Center by the new management team continued on April 18, when at least six people were laid off. Details are unclear, but confirmed as out are Derek Johnson, vice president of marketing; … » Read

Anyone who thought that the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan in 2021 would be any different than their first reign between 1996 and 2001 was delusional. Nowhere is this more evident than in the current government’s war on … » Read

The Blue Hill Troupe (BHT), New York City’s only philanthropic musical theater group, will close its 101st season with a production of The Grand Duke; or, The Statutory Duel— Gilbert & Sullivan’s final collaboration. … » Read