Musicians and audiences aren’t the only ones happy to be back in the concert hall
“When Colleen Mraz headed home from her job at Symphony Center one March evening in 2020, she took a red usher’s blazer with her,” writes Lauren Warnecke in Sunday’s...
January 24, 2022
South Florida Symphony’s low-key approach to its music-director search
“Southwest Florida Symphony’s search for a new music director is a much less formal process than the last time it had to find a maestro,” writes Charles Runnells in...
January 24, 2022
YouTube makes gains, Spotify and Apple continue to dominate music-streaming subscriptions
“A study released by Midia Research shows that worldwide streaming subscriptions grew by a healthy 26.4% in the second quarter of 2021,” writes Chris Willman in Tuesday’s (1/18) Variety....
January 24, 2022
Review: New Jersey Symphony in U.S. premiere of Ades’s “Shanty—Over the Sea”
“After almost 100 years as the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the organization a few weeks ago announced that it was dropping the ‘O’ in NJSO,” writes James C. Taylor...
January 24, 2022
Obituary: Everett Lee, Black conductor who made history on Broadway and led orchestras in Europe and the U.S., 105
“Everett Lee, a conductor who broke down racial barriers but then fled the prejudice that Black classical musicians faced in the United States to make a significant career in...
January 24, 2022
Houston Symphony’s two-week “Andrés Fest” with new works by Bruce Broughton, Wynton Marsalis, Kyle Rivera
The Houston Symphony has announced full programming details for its March 2022 two-week “Andrés Fest: A Symphonic Celebration,” paying tribute to Andrés Orozco-Estrada, who will step down as music...
January 24, 2022
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