NY Philharmonic has new music director
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The New York Philharmonic has chosen a native son &#151; 40-year-old Alan Gilbert &#151; to become its music director. He will lead an ensemble that includes his mother.
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From the first sips of champagne at Symphony Hall to the last bites of chocolate mousse at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, James Levine&#39;s debut as Boston Symphony Orchestra&#39;s music director last night was a tasteful event.
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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has hired a new music director, who will begin a four-year contract in September 2008.
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Eras will end at the New York Philharmonic next season as Lorin Maazel finishes his seven-year run as music director and Stanley Drucker, the principal clarinetist, retires.
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A few composers are seeing new possibilities for percussion concertos. At least four such pieces are scheduled in the US over the next month.
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The New York Philharmonic and the musicians union have agreed to a three-year labor contract that includes a raise, benefit increases and changes to working and touring conditions, the orchestra announced Sunday.
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Dominique Meyer has been chosen as the new director of Vienna's renowned State Opera, the government said Wednesday.
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Edo de Waart, chief conductor and artistic director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, was named Thursday as the next music director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
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With his considerable experience, personality and public profile, Daniel Barenboim seems a logical candidate for music director of the New York Philharmonic in 2009.
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The American Symphony Orchestra will make a case for the often overlooked, formidable composer Carl Czerny in Sunday's program at Avery Fisher Hall.
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An enthusiastic audience seemed happy to embrace the familiar when the New York Philharmonic began its new season on Tuesday night at Avery Fisher Hall.
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German theatre director Juergen Flimm was appointed on Monday as the new artistic director of the Salzburg Festival as of 2006, the festival committee said.
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Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic are collaborating on an upcoming festival celebrating the late composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.
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The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford has a new director. She is Susan Lubowsky Talbott, the director of Smithsonian Arts at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
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Gerard Mortier, currently the director of the Paris National Opera, will succeed Paul Kellogg, who leaves in May as general and artistic director.
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Stanford Makishi has been appointed executive director of the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
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Latvian Mariss Jansons gave his inaugural concert as the new chief conductor of the Dutch Royal Concertgebouworchestra (RCO), following in the footsteps of Riccardo Chailly, who had led the RCO for 15 years.