As The Associated Press’ music writer, Maria Sherman has seen more than 80 concerts in 2024.

Matías Tarnopolsky will become president and CEO of the New York Philharmonic on Jan. 1, after six years heading the Philadelphia Orchestra.

The New York Philharmonic and its musicians’ union have settled on a collective bargaining agreement that includes a 30% raise over three years.

Jaap van Zweden is ending his tenure as the New York Philharmonic music director after six seasons, the orchestra’s shortest since Pierre Boulez from 1971-77.

Kim Noltemy will become president of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in July, helping guide the search for music director Gustavo Dudamel's successor.

After spending 16 years gaining fame while roaming the grass where Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle once trod, Bernie Williams was on the stage made famous by Leonard Bernstein and where guitar great Andrés Segovia once played.

Klaus Mäkelä has been hired to succeed Riccardo Muti as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and will become the youngest head since its start in 1891.

Michael Tilson Thomas is to conduct the opening subscription program of the New York Philharmonic season, three years after the conductor announced he was treated for a brain tumor.

Esa-Pekka Salonen will leave the San Francisco Symphony following the 2024-25 season, just his fifth as music director, announcing his departure with a statement critical of the orchestra’s leadership.

Carnegie Hall’s 2024-25 season will feature a festival celebrating Latin music titled “Nuestros Sonidos (Our Sounds).”.

Incoming music director Gustavo Dudamel will conduct the New York Philharmonic at its spring gala on April 24, the orchestra said as it announced a $40 million gift from co-chairman Oscar L.

Gustavo Dudamel surprisingly announced his resignation as music director of the Paris Opéra, two seasons into a six-year contract scheduled to run through the 2026-27 season.

Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic received a seven-minute standing ovation following his first performance with the orchestra since he agreed to become music director.

Gustavo Dudamel has arrived at the New York Philharmonic for the first time since he was hired to become music director starting in the 2026-27 season.

Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the New York Philharmonic for the 2026-27 season, ending a tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic that began in 2009.

Deborah Borda will retire as president and CEO of the New York Philharmonic at the end of the 2022-23 season.

Carnegie Hall plans a return to a relatively full schedule next season for the first time since 2018-19, presenting about 150 events that include Kirill Petrenko’s first New York appearances as music director of the Berlin Philharmonic.

American soprano Renée Fleming is to make rare operatic appearances as Pat Nixon in a new production of John Adams’ “Nixon in China” at the Paris Opera next season.

This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from Imagine Dragons, Billie Eilish's Disney+ concert special and Michael Keaton leading the new Netflix film “Worth.”.

The New York Philharmonic will resume subscription performances in September following a historic 18-month gap caused by the coronavirus pandemic, presenting a shortened schedule of 78 concerts in a season shifted from Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall while the orchestra’s home is remodeled.

Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the Paris Opera while continuing his commitment to the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

The live performance is an effort to give people some small respite from the coronavirus pandemic and other hardships. Sanchez conducted the mobile orchestra from his piano as the musicians sweated under the midday sun. The orchestra performed for hours many of his melodies, which he wrote while serving as resident composer of the Caracas Municipal Symphony Orchestra. His Instagram account includes videos of Sanchez wearing personal protective equipment from head to toe and playing the piano next to patients and health care workers. “I have goosebumps.”___Associated Press photographer Ariana Cubillos and writers Jorge Rueda in Caracas, Venezuela, and Regina Garcia Cano, in Mexico City, contributed to this report.

This Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, photo released by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, shows Gail Samuel in Boston. She currently is president of the Hollywood Bowl and chief operating officer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. (Aram Boghosian/Boston Symphony Orchestra via AP)BOSTON – The Boston Symphony Orchestra on Thursday announced Gail Samuel as its next president and chief executive. As president and CEO, Samuel will lead the orchestra, the Boston Pops, and Tanglewood. AdPrior to joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Samuel held positions with the Minnesota Orchestra, Yale University, Boston University Tanglewood Institute and the Young Musicians Foundation.