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Xian Zhang to become music director of Seattle Symphony starting with 2025-26 season
Read full article: Xian Zhang to become music director of Seattle Symphony starting with 2025-26 seasonXian Zhang has been hired as music director of the Seattle Symphony, becoming the first woman conductor to head a major West Coast orchestra and filling a post that had been vacant since Thomas Dausgaard quit abruptly in January 2022.
Joni Mitchell, Amy Tan, N. Scott Momaday join arts academy
Read full article: Joni Mitchell, Amy Tan, N. Scott Momaday join arts academyJoni Mitchell has received honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the century old institution where general inductees have ranged from Henry James and Georgia O’Keeffe to Sonny Rollins and Jasper Johns.