Spoleto Festival USA has announced its 2026 season, running May 22–June 7, 2026, featuring more than 110 performances across opera, dance, theater, music, jazz, and community programs.
The 92nd Street Y in New York will present concert titled Our People, featuring Grammy-winning tenor Freddie Ballentine and acclaimed pianist Kunal Lahiry.
The Park University International Center for Music Orchestra will highlight the many moods of dance music with its annual Valentine's concert on Friday, Feb. 6, starting at 7:30 p.m. in Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel.
The North/South Chamber Orchestra will celebrate the New Year with a free-admission concert on Monday evening, January 12, featuring recent compositions by Munir Beken, Harry Bulow, Andrea Clearfield, and Max Lifchitz.
The Des Moines Symphony will bring a blend of American classics to the stage this spring with “Hope – Copland & Gershwin,” a Masterworks concert scheduled for April 18 and April 19, 2026, at the Des Moines Civic Center.
The Sun Valley Music Festival has unveiled its eighth Winter Season, featuring guest curator and violinist Benjamin Beilman. Beilman last appeared with the Festival Orchestra and Music Director Alasdair Neale in 2018.
This past season was the year of the comedy in St. Louis Theater. Companies across the city had audiences laughing all season long with slapstick, farce, and satire. There were some wonderful musical productions that really sang, a few hard hitting dramas, but comedies reigned in both quantity and quality. Instead of publishing a Top 10 list this year, I’m going to recognize the Best in St. Louis Theater for 2025. “The Best” is still a shortened list of just 13 shows out of the nearly 90 shows I saw this past year. It took weeks of thought and painstaking consideration to decide which productions would be included in my annual list. Here they are. The productions are listed in alphabetical order, not ranked by favorites:
The Queens College Choral Society (QCCS) will present Duke Ellington’s The Best of the Sacred Concerts for its 85th annual Winter Concert on Saturday, December 14, at 4 pm in Colden Auditorium.
The Hermitage Artist Retreat has been awarded a series of grants totaling over $300,000 that will support a variety of programs and initiatives, including residencies for Hermitage Fellows.
This Season, the revived company make its debut in the Linbury Theatre, bringing a new commission and revivals of lesser-known works spanning the last four decades.
The Boston Civic Symphony launches its 101st season on November 9, 2025, at Jordan Hall under the direction of Music Director Francisco Noya. The 2025–26 season includes four concerts blending classical masterworks with contemporary pieces.
Carnegie Hall will launch United in Sound: America at 250 in January 2026, a six-month festival celebrating the evolution of American music across genres and generations.
The Wheeling Symphony Orchestra (WSO) will open its 2025–26 Masterworks season on Saturday, October 25, with Painted on the Sky, a program featuring Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring and a new collaboration with lighting and set designer Doug Fitch and Oglebay Institute’s School of Dance.
Six-time GRAMMY Award-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart has revealed his 2025-2026 season, highlighted by his first public performance of Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade with National Philharmonic, the world premiere of a new work, and more.
The Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra has announced its 2025-2026 season offering a journey that drifts through shadow and light, reverence and revelry, and tradition and innovation.
Jim McLaughlin, the Emmy-winning television news producer whose work at CBS News transformed the way the arts were covered on American television, died August 7, 2025, in New York City after a brief battle with cancer.
Emphasizing the themes of overcoming a harsh environment, ethics and the complexities of teen relationships, The Second Hurricane packs a lot of drama into a small amount of time.
The St. Charles Singers, led by founder and music director Jeffrey Hunt, will return for their 41st concert season in 2025–2026 with four choral programs celebrating musical discovery, collaboration, and international connection.
The New York Historical will host The Guggenheim Fellowship at 100 from August 29–November 30, 2025, featuring letters, photos, and artifacts from a century of iconic Guggenheim Fellows including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Martha Graham.
It was a night of concerti for this Prom, with Polish composers Grażyna Bacewicz and Witold Lutosławski on the programme alongside Sergei Rachmaninov; three 20th century classics to be performed, in the form of Concerto for String Orchestra, Concerto for Orchestra, and the already alluded to Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor. On this occasion, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales was led by Igor Yuzefovich, on loan from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
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