Orchestral music
Andrea Lopalo wears a face mask and plays the drums behind a transparent panel to curb the spread of COVID-19 during a lesson at the Giuseppe Verdi Music Conservatory, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, April 29, 2021. Whatever the instrument, flute, violin or drums, students at Italy's oldest and largest music conservatory have been playing behind plexiglass screens during much of the pandemic as the Conservatory found ways to preserve instruction throughout Italy’s many rolling lockdowns. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
AP PHOTOS: Playing on at Italy's oldest music conservatory

By Colleen Barry And Antonio Calanni Jun. 12, 2021 03:10 AM EDT

Boston Pops July Fourth live show returning, with changes

Jun. 11, 2021 12:17 PM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Pops traditional Fourth of July live show is returning this year but with some significant changes, the Boston Symphony Orchestra...

Members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra play music on the back of a truck while driving through downtown Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday June 9, 2021. The prestigious orchestra, founded and led by renowned composer Ivan Fischer, took to the streets as five members of the orchestra performed classical music to motorists and passers-by. The musical parade was aimed at encouraging Hungarians to start returning to live performances in concert halls as the pandemic wanes, after more than a year in which people were homebound and forced to take in their culture online. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)
Budapest orchestra performs live concert from moving truck

By Bela Szandelszky Jun. 10, 2021 04:31 AM EDT

FILE - This May 12, 2020 file photo shows Carnegie Hall in New York. Carnegie Hall will resume performances in October following a 1 1/2-year closure caused by the coronavirus pandemic but with a limited schedule of recitals and small ensembles until large orchestras return in January. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Carnegie Hall reopens in October after 19-month closure

By Ronald Blum Jun. 08, 2021 12:02 PM EDT

Bangor is bringing back fireworks this Fourth of July

Jun. 02, 2021 12:28 PM EDT
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Bangor is bringing back its Fourth of July celebration with a road race, parade and fireworks. Organizers say Gov....

A view of the Milan La Scala opera house during a press conference to present 2021/2022 season, in Milan, Italy, Monday, May 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
La Scala announces 2021-21 season, with hope of fewer limits

By Colleen Barry May. 31, 2021 10:24 AM EDT

Bill Allen, of Winthrop, Mass., who served in the Army in Vietnam during 1971, was one of the volunteers planting American flags on Boston Common Wednesday, May 26, 2021, in Boston. Each year before Memorial Day weekend the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund places a flag to represent every fallen member of the U.S. military from Massachusetts since the Revolutionary War. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
Full flag garden returns to Boston Common this year

May. 26, 2021 10:59 AM EDT

Symphony on Prairie to return after pandemic cancellation

May. 10, 2021 12:39 PM EDT
FISHERS, Ind. (AP) — The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is bringing back its popular Symphony on the Prairie performances, a year after the pandemic forced...

FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2017 file photo, Italian Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra during a rehearsal for the traditional New Year's concert at the golden hall of Vienna's Musikverein. With a purposeful nod and flick of his baton, the 79-year-old conductor on Sunday, May 9, 2021, ended what has been an unexpectedly long silence in Italian theaters, enrapturing a socially distanced and masked audience with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s first live performances since fall, two evening concerts of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms, in his adopted hometown of Ravenna. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, file)
Muti: Pandemic year silenced culture, leaving world stunned

By Colleen Barry May. 10, 2021 05:52 AM EDT

Guest conductor Esa Pekka Salonen, front center, greets a live audience as New York Philharmonic musicians stand behind him before they performed together for the first time since March 10, 2020, at The Shed in Hudson Yards, Wednesday, April 14, 2021, in New York. Normal subscription performances are scheduled to resume in September. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
NY Philharmonic gives 1st concert with audience in 13 months

By Ronald Blum Apr. 15, 2021 12:06 AM EDT

Summer symphony orchestra concert set to return in WVa

Apr. 13, 2021 04:16 AM EDT
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A popular summer symphony orchestra performance in West Virginia will return this year at a new location after it was canceled in 2020...

Hollywood Bowl to reopen for 2021 season with capacity limit

Apr. 09, 2021 01:28 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Hollywood Bowl will reopen for the 2021 season with a limited-capacity audience due to COVID-19 concerns. The Los...

Members of the New York Philharmonic perform on the Lincoln Center campus as part of Restart Stages at Lincoln Center, Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in New York. Members of the New York Philharmonic gave an outdoor concert at Lincoln Center for heath care workers, 13 months after the novel coronavirus pandemic decimated their season. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
With outdoor concert, Lincoln Center starts path to return

By Ronald Blum Apr. 07, 2021 04:39 PM EDT

This artist rendering released by the New York Philharmonic shows the interior of David Geffen Hall in New York. The New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts are accelerating the reconstruction of Geffen Hall because of the novel coronavirus pandemic and plan to reopen the auditorium in fall of 2022, about 1 1/2 years ahead of the original schedule. (Diamond Schmitt Architects/New York Philharmonic via AP)
Geffen Hall rebuild speeded due to virus, reopen in fall '22

By Ronald Blum Apr. 05, 2021 12:50 PM EDT

FILE - In this July 7, 2006 file photo, Michael Van Parks, left, pours wine with friends, Bill Beeman, center, and Don Usher, right, all of West Hartford, Conn., while having a picnic on the lawn at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. before the start of Boston Symphony Orchestra's opening night. The Boston Symphony Orchestra announced Friday, March 19, 2021 that its 2021 outdoor season at Tanglewood, the acclaimed symphony's summer home in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, will feature a return to live, in-person concerts from July 9 to Aug. 16. The event was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
A hopeful pandemic note: Tanglewood music festival to resume

By William J. Kole Mar. 19, 2021 12:10 PM EDT

FILE - Boston Symphony Orchestra music director James Levine appears during a performance at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., on July 7, 2006. Levine, who ruled over the Metropolitan Opera for 4 1/2 decades before being eased out when his health declined and then fired for sexual improprieties, died March 9, 2021 in Palm Springs, Calif., of natural causes, his physician of 17 years, Dr. Len Horovitz, said Wednesday, March 17. He was 77. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
James Levine, who ruled over Met Opera, dead at age 77

By Ronald Blum Mar. 17, 2021 10:44 AM EDT

The Bode Museum of the 'Museumsinsel', Museums Island, his seen in Berlin, Germany, Monday, March 15, 2021. Museums throughout Germany closed at the beginning of November as coronavirus cases increased. Under new regulations, some of the collections on Berlin's Museum Island, one of the city's cultural highlights and a UNESCO World Heritage site, are now allowed to re-open to visitors. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Berlin to open cultural venues despite rising virus numbers

By Kirsten Grieshaber Mar. 16, 2021 03:34 AM EDT

Musicians join pianist, composer and conductor Jose Agustin Sanchez on the bed of an 18-wheeler truck for a musical tour coined a "musical disinfection" in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Sanchez, who last year started playing what he calls his "Musical Vaccine" for COVID patients, is now joined by other musicians as they ride through the city playing his original compositions for anybody that wants to listen. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Mobile orchestra tries to bring cheer to Venezuelan streets

By Juan Pablo Arráez Mar. 05, 2021 05:58 PM EST

DSO hoping to resume live performances in autumn

Feb. 14, 2021 04:56 PM EST
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has announced its schedule of performances for the 2021-2022 season, saying it hopes live performances can resume...

FILE - This May 12, 2020 file photo shows David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, closed during COVID-19 lockdown, in New York. The New York Philharmonic has launched an on-demand video and audio streaming service Monday called NYPhil+ that is available for $50 annually or $4.99 monthly. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
New York Philharmonic launches on-demand streaming service

Feb. 08, 2021 12:51 PM EST