On July 17, in New York, there will be a concert entitled “The Dream Unfinished: A Symphonic Benefit for Civil Rights"—a musical response to unabated police violence against people of color. The program will consist of works of William Grant Still, Leonard Bernstein, and Jessie Montgomery (a world premiere). James Blachly and John McLaughlin Williams will share conducting duties….. Jacaranda has announced an enticing 2015-16 season, one that will begin with a blast of bagpipes on the Santa Monica bluffs…. The centerpiece of this summer's Bard Summerscape is Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers, receiving a very belated American stage première…. The Castelton Festival will be streaming all of its performances this summer. The lineup includes a lecture on "Law and Opera" by the magnificent Ruth Bader Ginsburg… The Los Angeles International New Music Festival, July 7-15, will include the West Coast premiere of Toshio Hosokawa's The Raven and programs devoted to Gabriela Ortiz and Elliott Carter — the last devoted entirely to works Carter composed in his last few years, past his hundredth birthday…. Christian Meyer, the longtime director of the Schoenberg Center in Vienna, has stepped aside; Angelika Möser is his successor. Meyer deserves congratulations for having made the Schoenberg Center an extraordinary resource, both for on-site researchers and for visitors online…. West Edge Opera, in Oakland, announces its summer festival, with performances in unusual venues: Lulu in an abandoned train station, Laura Kaminsky's As One at the Oakland Metro, Monteverdi's Return of Ulysses at American Steel Studios…. Good news: Kyle Gann's inexplicably beleaguered book about the Ives Concord Sonata has found a home at University of Illinois Press. It's shameful that a musical thinker of Kyle's stature should have endured such treatment.