An estimated 100,000 scores and parts by the groundbreaking 20th-century composer Arnold Schoenberg were destroyed last week when the wildfires in Southern California burned down the music publishing company founded by his...
Read moreSubscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicOn this week’s Popcast, which was recorded live at S.O.B.’s in New York in December, Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli discuss some of the...
Read more▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube3. J Balvin and Bad Bunny: “La Canción”“Oasis,” Bad Bunny’s 2019 collaboration album with the Colombian reggaeton star J Balvin, wasn’t quite the world-dominating creative...
Read moreGary Ginstling, a veteran orchestra manager who briefly led the New York Philharmonic before abruptly resigning last year, will become the next chief executive of the Houston Symphony, the ensemble announced on...
Read moreA great pleasure of the performing arts is the opportunity to witness how elastic the classics can be. In opera the same role can transform, again and again, with each new interpreter,...
Read moreAnita Bryant, the singer and former beauty queen who had a robust and flourishing music career, including hit songs like “Paper Roses,” in the 1960s and ’70s, but whose opposition to gay...
Read moreOtto Schenk, the prolific Austrian director whose lavishly traditional productions for the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna State Opera thrilled generations of music lovers, died on Thursday at his home on Lake...
Read moreFunny place, the music business — it devours the young and ignores the old. Or at least that’s how it may appear. Aside from a handful of entrenched executives and a circuit...
Read moreIt is a maxim of orchestra management that when you hire a new music director, you should immediately start looking for the next one.Gustavo Dudamel arrives this fall as the New York...
Read moreFor most people in the movie industry, getting an Oscar nomination is a rare honor. For the songwriter Diane Warren, it’s like going outside to pick up the mail.Over the past four...
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