With the search for its next music director underway, it’s no coincidence that the San Francisco Symphony’s (SFS) 115 th season, running Sept. 8 through  June 27, 2027, features no fewer than 26 guest conductors, five of them new … » Read

When Boston Lyric Opera’s (BLO) new Opera and Community Studios (OCS) facility in the city’s Fort Point neighborhood opens, visitors can be forgiven if they are confused by the sign above the door reading … » Read

For fans of 20 th - and 21 st -century music, this year’s Ojai Music Festival is irresistible. Put together by Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen with festival Artistic and Executive Ara Guzelimian, the 80 th iteration of this historic … » Read

Travelers passing through the Pittsburgh International Airport between now and April 30 can see life-size holograms of members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performing. Created by Joe Zeff Design, timed to coincide with the influx of … » Read

The displeasure surrounding the announcement that the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) will not renew Andris Nelsons’s contract as music director is not subsiding. At the Thursday, March 19 performance, the first since the news was … » Read

The San Antonio Philharmonic—which cancelled all remaining concerts last month and whose future viability, given its past, is questionable—is seeking more than $1 million in damages from the San Antonio Scottish Rite Library and … » Read

The decision by Moody's Ratings to cut the long-term rating of the Metropolitan Opera Association to Caa1 from B3, taken in response to the company’s structural deficit and heavy endowment withdrawals, comes as no surprise. It follows … » Read

On March 23 eight associations representing preservationists and architects filed a law suit in federal district court against the Trump administration to halt the “renovation” of The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing … » Read

Donald Trump seems intent on leaving his mark on the nation’s capital city with a series of outsized, ornate structures that few have asked for, much less approved. The 47 th president, writes Philip Kennicott in the Washington Post , … » Read

A new study from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy— Philanthropy Outlook: Estimating Effects on Charitable Giving from the One Big Beautiful Bill —offers an analysis of how specific tax policy changes in the … » Read