Early Music America

The Rose Ensemble recently played its “Finale Concert,” concluding a season that was supposed to be its last. But the Twin Cities early-music group, which a year ago faced “a financial deficit too overwhelming to overcome,” may not be going out of business after all.

The University of Oregon will lay off the current director, Janelle McCoy, and permanently eliminate the position in a cost-cutting move, said Sabrina Madison-Cannon, dean of the university’s School of Music and Dance, in a message to donors Friday.

The 7th annual Handel Aria Competition took place on Friday, June 7, 2019 in Mills Concert Hall of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music.