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MAYR: L’amor coniugale (Opera Today)
Naxos, in conjunction with SWR, has been releasing recordings from the Rossini in Wildbad Festival, which focuses not just on the titular composer but also on his contemporaries.
Curtains for Boston Costume (WBUR Arts with Bill Marx)
On this Halloween, a Hub institution faces a scary future. We visit Boston Costume, as it faces imminent closure.
Music Review | Wenge Musica BCBG: Congolese Soukous Beats, Spirited and Dance-Friendly (NYT ...
Wenge Musica BCBG, the acclaimed Congolese soukous band, brought its long, intricate songs, elaborate drumming and wall of vocals to the Fillmore New York on Saturday night.
Music Review | 'La Damnation de Faust': Between Hell and Heaven, a World of Morphing Imagery ...
The video wizardry on stage should not obscure the big news of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?La Damnation de Faust?: the magnificent performances of the opera and chorus.
For Copland Musicians, 10th Season of Seclusion and Nurture (NYT > Music)
Aaron Copland?s modest house ? recently named a National Historic Landmark ? will be the nurturing home to nine successive composers.
A Night Out With | Joseph Arthur: Doing Things You?re Not (NYT > Music)
Hanging out with Joseph Arthur, the singer, songwriter and artist, who has created his own little artistic paradise in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn.
Totally Over: Last Squeals for ?TRL? (NYT > Music)
The afternoon video show, which ended Sunday after being an MTV flagship for 10 years, was just a little too 20th-century to survive the YouTube age.
Thomas Dunn, an Early-Music Conductor, Is Dead at 82 (NYT > Music)
Mr. Dunn was a prominent conductor whose work helped animate the early music revival that took place in the mid-20th century and afterward.
Techno-Alchemy at the Opera (NYT > Music)
A production of Berlioz?s ?Damnation de Faust? at the Metropolitan Opera introduces an unprecedented level of technological stagecraft to the house.
Playlist: Savvy Jazz Veterans and Fiery Rock Newcomers (NYT > Music)
Reviews of releases by Sonny Rollins, James Moody and Hank Jones, White Denim, Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid, and Bill Carrothers.
Playlist | Jared Followill: Sounds Like Other Decades? Just One of the Attractions (NYT > Music)
Jared Followill of Kings of Leon discusses music by M83, Glasvegas, She & Him, Chairlift and Animal Collective.
Now That?s What I Call Marketing: Pop Hits and More (NYT > Music)
?Now That?s What I Call Music!? has been a reliable blockbuster for 10 years by sticking to a simple, recognizable brand.
Music: The Weill (Almost) Nobody Knows (NYT > Music)
As champions of Kurt Weill always point out, there is more to his catalog than ?The Threepenny Opera.? Two new projects will bring some of his lesser-known productions to the stage.
Music: Sound of Woodwinds, Calling for Change (NYT > Music)
A quintet with twin goals: to lift the presence of blacks and Hispanics in classical music and to expand the repertory for woodwind quintets.
Music: Pop Music?s Dreamgirl Awakens Her Earthy Side (NYT > Music)
Beyoncé Knowles on her study of the life of Etta James and how it altered the direction of her new album.
Music: My Music, MySpace, My Life (NYT > Music)
Stressing young love and personal connections, Taylor Swift expands country music?s audience.
Music Review: The Guarneri String Quartet and The Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert: Music ...
Reviews of performances by the Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert and the Guarneri String Quartet.
Music Review: Proudly Strutting, Defying Hostile Universe (NYT > Music)
Chita Rivera, 75, is the most commanding physical presence ever to grace the tiny platform stage of Feinstein?s.
Music Review: Making Girls Dance: All in a Night?s Work (NYT > Music)
Girl Talk set off instant pandemonium as its set began at Terminal 5.
Music Review: A Dark and Ghostly Work, Bereft of High Spirits (NYT > Music)
The violinist Vadim Repin played Prokofiev?s spooky violin scales at the end of the first movement in his Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor with eerie, barely audible pianissimos during a performance with the pianist Nikolai Lugansky.
Music Review: A Big Electronic Party in Celebration of Survival (NYT > Music)
Psychic TV?s show at Club Europa on Sunday night, its first performance since Lady Jaye Breyer?s death, was suffused with sweetness and good feeling.
Music Review | Warsaw Philharmonic: Among the Familiar, Hidden Treasure From Poland (NYT > Music)
The latest orchestra to have its mettle tried by the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was the Warsaw Philharmonic.
Music Review | The Smashing Pumpkins: Burly Riffs, Long Jams and Rage (NYT > Music)
The Smashing Pumpkins? lineup has changed and Billy Corgan still annoys as well as enthralls, but the music has stayed explosive.
Music Review | The Hold Steady | Drive-By Truckers: For the Toughest of Hard Times, Two Bands ...
The Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers, who co-headlined at Terminal 5 on Thursday, share a commitment to underdogs but have different ways of expressing it.
Music Review | Richard Egarr: From Manuscript?s Curlicues, a Tuning Scheme (NYT > Music)
The harpsichordist Richard Egarr?s performance of Book I at Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday evening addressed what Bach meant by well tempered.
Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Philharmonic Past Speaks to Its Future (NYT > Music)
Alan Gilbert led the New York Philharmonic through suites from ?On the Waterfront? and ?West Side Story? on Friday as part of an ongoing festival honoring Leonard Bernstein.
Music Review | Met Chamber Ensemble: Musical Tent Big Enough for a Mix of Styles (NYT > Music)
It must be great fun for James Levine to concoct the programs he presents with the Met Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall.
Music Review | Kirov Orchestra of the Maryinsky Theater: When Prokofiev?s Scores Are Players? ...
On Sunday afternoon at Avery Fisher Hall, Valery Gergiev conducted the Kirov Orchestra of the Maryinsky Theater in the first of four programs devoted to theatrical works of Prokofiev.
Music Review | Kirov Orchestra of the Maryinsky Theater: Velvet Passion for Prokofiev in a ...
Prokofiev, like Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, is in these musicians? fingers and souls, and their performance of ?Romeo and Juliet? could hardly have been more passionate or vividly characterized.
Music Review | Kirov Orchestra and Chorus: Prokofiev Did Relish a Good Epic (NYT > Music)
The orchestra, led by Valery Gergiev, did rough justice to music full of loose and rough edges in its performance of works by Prokofiev at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday.
Music Review | Kirov Orchestra and Chorus of the Maryinsky Theater: A Brisk Prokofiev Comedy, ...
A concert performance by the conductor Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra and Chorus of the Maryinsky Theater at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday was a reminder that Prokofiev?s ?Love for Three Oranges? is endlessly inventive.
Music Review | Jeremy Denk: Soul Mates on the Wild Side: Transcendental Ives and Mavericky ...
In his exciting sold-out recital at Zankel Hall on Tuesday night the pianist Jeremy Denk paired Charles Ives?s ?Concord? Sonata and Beethoven?s ?Hammerklavier? Sonata.
Music Review | Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: Navigating Bernstein With Loose-Limbed Vigor (NYT ...
As part of Israel?s 60th-anniversary celebration, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra visited Carnegie Hall on Sunday and Monday with the young Venezuelan firebrand Gustavo Dudamel on the podium.
Music Review | Garrick Ohlsson: Pianist Celebrates Scriabin as Angular Impressionist (NYT > ...
The pianist Garrick Ohlsson brought fingers, fortitude and a freewheeling imagination to his all-Scriabin recital on Saturday evening at the 92nd Street Y.
Music Review | Florence Henderson: Pondering if Carol Brady Ever Had Any Work Done (NYT > Music)
A remarkably youthful Florence Henderson reviews her life, from her impoverished childhood in Kentucky to fame and fortune.
Music Review | Don Byron: Celebrating 50 Years With Four Parties (NYT > Music)
Don Byron, a clarinet virtuoso, is performing with a different ensemble every night for the Jazz Standard?s four-night celebration of his 50th birthday.
Music Review | David (Honeyboy) Edwards: Some Well-Aged Blues From the Mississippi Delta (NYT ...
David (Honeyboy) Edwards?s 11-song, half-electric, half-acoustic set at the B. B. King Blues Club and Grill on Monday was a mix of traditional covers and original compositions.
Music Review | Conor Oberst: A Singer?s Enthusiasm Now Reigns Where Emotion Once Ruled (NYT ...
Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes shimmied intensely alongside his other group, the Mystic Valley Band, at Terminal 5 on Sunday, while performing material from his recent solo album.
Music Review | Composer Portraits: Milton Babbitt: Side by Side in a Marathon: Honoring Babbitt ...
Noting the fuss over Elliott Carter?s impending centenary, partisans of the music of Milton Babbitt, 92, are getting their ducks in a row.
Music Review | Brian Stokes Mitchell: Did Someone Say an Impossible Dream? Not Anymore (NYT ...
Brian Stokes Mitchell seized the moment on Tuesday evening when he opened a too-short five-night engagement at Feinstein?s at Loews Regency.
Music Review | Ani and Ida Kavafian: Violin Duo Celebrating Milestone, Helped by Friends and ...
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center hosted a concert in honor of the violinist sisters Ani and Ida Kavafian, who made their Carnegie Hall debut as a duo 25 years ago.
Music Review | Andrea Marcovicci: Cheek to Cheek With Fred Astaire and Other Hollywood Royalty ...
Andrea Marcovicci?s new show, ?Marcovicci Sings Movies II,? at the Oak Room, is an extensively altered and improved revival of one she performed there 21 years ago.
Music Review | AC/DC: Rock of a Certain Age, Complete With Inflatable Doll (NYT > Music)
At Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, the 35-year-old band remained committedly lowbrow with its flamboyant stagings and remarkably familiar-sounding new songs.
Music Review | 'Music in Exile': Piano Works by Those Who Escaped the Nazis (NYT > Music)
The series, ?Music in Exile: Émigré Composers of the 1930s,? which opened on Sunday, focuses mostly on composers who escaped to Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States during the Nazi era.
Music Review | 'Marie Galante': A Woman Wronged in Old Tale by Weill (NYT > Music)
On Thursday night the enterprising Opéra Français de New York presented an elaborate and overdue production of Kurt Weill?s ?Marie Galante,? its American premiere, at Gould Hall.
Music Review | 'Fugitives': Tracking Composers on the Run (NYT > Music)
For Steven Blier, a pianist and the artistic director of the New York Festival of Song, Alexander Zemlinsky?s ?Meeraugen? suggested a concert.
Music Review | 'Arjuna?s Dilemma': Warrior Prince From India Wrestles With Destiny (NYT > Music)
?Arjuna?s Dilemma,? an opera based on the Bhagavad-Gita and presented at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, has an appealing and unabashedly eclectic score.
Music Patron Is Convicted of Fraud (NYT > Music)
A federal jury in Manhattan on Wednesday convicted Alberto W. Vilar on 12 counts of fraud.
Mitch Mitchell Dies at 62; Drummer for Jimi Hendrix (NYT > Music)
Mr. Mitchell, a jazzy and versatile drummer, was one of two Englishmen in the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Miriam Makeba, 76, Singer and Activist, Dies (NYT > Music)
Ms. Makeba was a South African singer whose voice stirred hopes of freedom in her own country even though her music was formally banned by the apartheid authorities she struggled against.
Jimmy Carl Black, Rocker, Dies at 70 (NYT > Music)
Mr. Black was the acerbic drummer of Frank Zappa?s mischievous, innovative band the Mothers of Invention.
Jheryl Busby, 59, Reviver of the Motown Label, Dies (NYT > Music)
Mr. Busby was a music executive who helped return an industry giant to the top of the charts.
Hearts Full of Sorrow (NYT > Music)
A history of the events and people who defined the Mississippi blues.
Conductor Defends Russia, to Strains of Prokofiev (NYT > Music)
Few other conductors have become so involved in the public realm as Valery Gergiev, whose Kirov Orchestra will perform at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday and Monday.
Child?s Garden of Hip-Hop (for Mom to Love, Too) (NYT > Music)
The book ?Hip Hop Speaks to Children,? which features lyrics by Mos Def, Kanye West and Queen Latifah, as well as poems by Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks, has become a modest hit.
C.M.A. Again Picks Chesney as Entertainer of the Year (NYT > Music)
For the fourth time, the Country Music Association?s gave its top award to Kenny Chesney on Wednesday.
An Appraisal: Taking Africa With Her to the World (NYT > Music)
To be the voice of a nation speaking to the wider world is a tough mission for any performer. To be the voice of an entire continent is exponentially more difficult. Both were mantles that the South African singer Miriam Makeba took on willingly and forcefully.
Turnaround Specialist Talks of City Opera Plans (NYT > Music)
Even before the full board of New York City Opera learned that its proposed savior, Gerard Mortier, was saying goodbye, its chairwoman had turned to a man known in the arts as a turnaround specialist.
Seattle Bids Tuba Man a Sad Goodbye (NYT > Music)
More than 1,000 people attended a memorial service for Edward Scott McMichael, a busker with perfect pitch and an improbable horn whom most people in Seattle knew as Tuba Man.
Red Bank: Basie Theater Renovation Turns Back the Clock 82 Years (NYT > Music)
Many volunteered time, work or money to help restore the theater, including Bruce Springsteen and his band, who played a benefit concert raising $3 million.
Music in Review (NYT > Music)
Tetzlaff Quartet at Zankel Hall and ?Petite Messe Solennelle? at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola.
Music Review | Steve Tyrell: Presiding Spirit at Party: Geniality (NYT > Music)
Steve Tyrell, a good ole boy from Houston with an aw-shucks charm and an easygoing machismo, began his fourth season at the Café Carlyle last week.
Music Review | Matt Haimovitz: Plug in Cello, Add D.J. and Club, Then Stir (NYT > Music)
The cellist Matt Haimovitz, no stranger to offbeat spaces, played at Le Poisson Rouge on Thursday.
Music Review | Lang Lang and Christoph Eschenbach: The Flame of Beethoven, Calibrated (NYT > ...
Lang Lang and Christoph Eschenbach returned to Beethoven?s First Concerto with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday night.
Music Review | Juilliard School: One-Act Operas Fashioned Into a Marital Morality Tale (NYT ...
The conductor James Conlon continues to find ways to revitalize programming at the Juilliard School with ?Trilogy,? a piece fashioned from little-known one-act works, two Russian and one German.
Music Review | Gil Shaham: Energy From a Composer Can Fuel a Player?s Flight (NYT > Music)
The violinist Gil Shaham is ideally suited to convey the energetic optimism of Khachaturian?s Violin Concerto, which he performed with the New York Philharmonic on Wednesday.
Music Review | Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra: Songs With a Political Kick but ...
Charlie Haden?s Liberation Music Orchestra makes use of folk forms, marches and anthems, but it?s all rearranged, put through a prism, warped a little, forced into broader meanings.
Music Review | Baby Jane Dexter: Songs of Speculation, Found in Unlikely Places (NYT > Music)
When belting in the expansive chest voice that dominated Wednesday?s show at the Metropolitan Room, Baby Jane Dexter exerted a formidable command.
Music Review | American Composers Orchestra: A Wide-Ranging Evening With Cymbals and Dog ...
During a return engagement on Friday night Jeffrey Milarsky authoritatively conducted the American Composers Orchestra in five disparate works, including three commissioned premieres.
Music Review | 'Things to Ruin': Cynicism, Too, Needs a Laureate to Give It Some Lyrical ...
?Things to Ruin,? by theater composer Joe Iconis, isn?t a political revue per se, but its 19 songs express a fed-up attitude in the final days of the Bush era.
Music Review | 'Olivier Messiaen at 100': Glimpsing the Apocalypse (NYT > Music)
?Olivier Messiaen at 100,? a centenary tribute at Symphony Space on Thursday, included exquisite examples of the composer?s idiosyncratic, wholly expressive style.
Music Review | 'Kafka Fragments': When Everyday Actions Become Existential Events (NYT > Music)
Dawn Upshaw whispers, shrieks and sings with ravishing warmth, and she moves easily from the mundane to the comic to sheer terror.
Fantasies Old and New, Names Familiar and Fresh (NYT > Music)
Reviews of recordings by David Greilsammer, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela and Ursula Oppens.
Critics? Choice: New CDs (NYT > Music)
Nickelback seems eager to shed at least a little of its politeness on ?Dark Horse,? its sixth album ? by far its loosest and most jagged in years.
Critics? Choice: New CDs (NYT > Music)
Reviews of new albums by T-Pain, David Archuleta, Deborah Cox and Butch Walker.
Classical Music/Opera Listings (NYT > Music)
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Bold Impresario and City Opera Part Ways (NYT > Music)
The departure of Gerard Mortier came 21 months after New York City Opera had staked its future on his vision.
Arts, Briefly: Town Hall Announces Its New Season (NYT > Music)
A folk fiddler, a salsa star and a bossa nova singer are among the headliners scheduled for the 2009 season at Town Hall, which will begin Jan. 23.
Arts, Briefly: These Guitars Are Not Gently Weeping (NYT > Music)
A new track from the Beatles? Paul McCartney hopes to unleash ?Carnival of Light,? a 14-minute experimental Beatles track recorded in 1967 but never released.
Arts, Briefly: Music Director Departs Columbus Symphony (NYT > Music)
Columbus Symphony Orchestra announced on Thursday that Junichi Hirokami, its music director, would be moving on, calling it a mutual decision.
Arts, Briefly: Melee at Music Awards (NYT > Music)
A 27-year-old man was in critical condition on Sunday after being stabbed when a brawl broke out at the sixth annual Urban Music Awards ceremony at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday night.
Jazz Listings (NYT > Music)
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