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Lincoln Center Taps Education Leader as Next President

Mariko Silver, a former president of Bennington College, will take the reins of the organization as it seeks to expand its audience and increase fund-raising.

By Javier C. Hernandez

Classical Music Der Ring des Nibelungen (Opera) Gelb, Peter Metropolitan Opera Nezet-Seguin, Yannick Opera Sharon, Yuval (1979- )

Met Opera’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Yuval Sharon Will Team Up for ‘Ring’

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the company’s music director, will extend his contract and lead Wagner’s four-opera epic, in a production staged by Yuval Sharon.

By Javier C. Hernandez

Berlioz, Hector Classical Music La Damnation de Faust (Opera) Les Troyens (Opera) Opera Symphonie Fantastique (Musical Work)

The World Is Still Catching Up to the Music of Hector Berlioz

The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams.

By Joshua Barone

Classical Music Deaths (Obituaries) Holocaust and the Nazi Era Jews and Judaism Los Angeles Times

Walter Arlen, Holocaust Refugee and Belated Composer, Is Dead at 103

After fleeing Vienna, he was a music critic and teacher before returning to composing in the 1980s. His memories of Nazi barbarism inspired his music.

By Robert D. McFadden