A charming story, with a multimillion-dollar happy ending for the Metropolitan Opera, by Daniel J. Wakin in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/arts/music/11opera.html?ref=music

Michael Kaiser, president of Washington's Kennedy Center, writes for The Huffington Post that the cost structures of American symphony orchestras – dominated by musicians' and conductors' salaries and guest artists' fees – chronically outweigh the...

with Philip Proctor, narrator Nov. 9, University of Richmond "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote," in which the LA Guitar Quartet plays music of 15th- and 16th-century Spain to accompany a reading of Cervantes’ classic tale, must have seemed an...

Arthur Fagen conducting Nov. 8, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland Arthur Fagen, last of nine music-director candidates to audition with the Richmond Symphony over the past 14 months, pulled off at least a semi-miracle in the second of two Metro...

The Honolulu Symphony, facing a debt of $1 million and repeatedly failing to pay its musicians on time, has canceled its concerts for the rest of the year, plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and may (or may not) re-emerge as a...