Pick of the Week

The summer-ending gala that is the Last Night of the Proms missed its mark in 2019. Something was missing. The

The distinguished composer Mary Jane Leach, an expert on the music of her late colleague Julius Eastman, was thrown off

Mesage from Deutsche Oper Berlin: After very successful rehearsals at the Deutsche Opera Berlin, Piotr Beczala is unfortunately forced to

After locking the players out for three months, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra says they are now on strike after having

A nameless former Sony Classical staffer in Berlin is the latest to accuse the singer of being a sex-pest. She

Audience statistics are out for the 2019 BBC Proms, which end tonight, and they are well short of the range

The ARD contest which occasionally yields major talent has been won by the Japanese cellist Haruma Sato. He’s 21.  

Message received: Greetings Musicians; My name is Mary Winterfeld; I work with Maestro Lawrence Golan at the Yakima Symphony and

From a fabulous confession by architecture writer Kate Wagner:   I was discouraged from pursuing a number of different careers—botany,

From Joseph Horowitz’s new essay on the whiteness of American classical music: What’s the pertinence of Aaron Copland’s poor opinion