Peter Dobrin

Street activity begets street activity. The more people there are on the streets, the safer they feel, and the safer they feel, the more likely they are to come back.

It took years for the orchestra’s 2011 bankruptcy to fade from public consciousness. Will there be a new deal soon?

Matías Tarnopolsky recalled the orchestra’s 2018 Israel tour, and how it brought together “Jews and Arabs in musical harmony without borders.”

Opera Philadelphia is looking for lessons on audience trends in this year’s festival.

Imaginative orchestrations and “that voice” made for a collaboration of emotional depth.

It’s contract negotiation time. The musicians’ labor deal with management expired earlier this month, and the approach of the fundraiser came with the threat of a strike.

Somewhere, there’s the right baton for every conductor, and Mark Horowitz’s Ambler workshop is the source for many of them.

Staatskapelle Berlin, Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra are all headed to Philly.

The price tag for the project has inched up to $37.5 million from the $34 million estimate a year ago.

The future may be in the suburbs. But can the Pops get its house in order?