In the merry month of May we heard artists performing around the globe, with Anne Akiko Meyers in Osaka, Aberdeen and Glasgow, Marc-André Hamelin in London and Madrid, Giora Schmidt in Honolulu and Miami, Mari Kodama in Tokyo and Paris.

 

This month, among many other exciting performances, Juliane Banse sings Agathe in the new Robert Wilson production of Der Freischütz in Baden-Baden, James Taylor sings the Haydn Stabat Mater with Les Violons du Roy in Quebec, Till Fellner performs at Wigmore Hall, and the Juilliard String Quartet appears at Ravinia and Tanglewood.

 

And many of you saw Charlotte Schroeder at the annual League of American Orchestras conference in Chicago. From all accounts, it was a very fruitful week of discussion, planning and community for the arts.