New York Times — Jaap van Zweden, the next music director, opens the season with contemporary music and Mahler. more info

New York Times — Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, a new “Tosca,” a Philip Glass residency and an operatic “Brokeback Mountain” are among the highlights. more info

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New York Times — The Icelandic musician, who is making his New York recital debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival this weekend, spoke about his homeland and composers. more info

Chicago Tribune — Contemporary operas about ordinary people crushed by powerful forces they are helpless to control mark another venturesome festival season of the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Both "The Grapes of Wrath," by Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie, and "The ... more info

Obscure Sound — Emme is an act from Austin, Texas comprised of vocalist Sowmya Somanath and beatmaker Walter Nichols. Somanath’s vocals are entirely captivating, lush and caressing in allowing the atmospheric beats to flow fully. On “Wander”, an orchestral-lik... more info

New York Times — The hourlong work has no plot, characters or libretto, but features six singers, a violin and a viola. Can a composer still build an opera with them? more info

Chicago Tribune — Walt Disney famously declared that his greatest creation was Walt Disney. But who was the man behind his grand invention? What do we find when we peer behind the facade of America's most beloved storyteller, the iconic dreamer of Technicolor dreams, ... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Robert Hurwitz regularly wears a suit to the kinds of musical events not too many others do. He wore one, though tieless, to an extraordinary concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Saturday, a celebration of Nonesuch Records featuring the likes ... more info

Sweeping The Nation — W H Lung - Inspiration!/Nothing IsHere is the sum total of what we can pass on about W H Lung - they're a trio based in Manchester, they release both these songs on a double A side on May 12th via Melodic, and despite no real proof of having play... more info