Music
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Arts
Listening Through the Life of George Crumb
It’s rare for a composer to quickly find a broad audience. It usually takes years, or even decades, and sometimes…
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Arts
A Met Orchestra of Mixed Quality Returns to Carnegie Hall
The tenure of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Metropolitan Opera’s music director, can be difficult to assess. That much was evident over…
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Arts
What We Think About When We Think About Joni Mitchell
In her new book, “Traveling,” the music critic Ann Powers offers a highly personal, even confessional, meditation on Mitchell’s life,…
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Arts
Review: A Glorious ‘Titanic,’ Returned From the Depths
Maury Yeston’s score, stupendously played and sung, is the star of the final production of an excellent Encores! season at…
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Arts
Officials Condemn Protest Outside Exhibit Memorializing Oct. 7 Victims
Anti-Israel demonstrators gathered outside the exhibition in New York that honors people at a music festival in Israel who were…
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Arts
What’s the Best Way to Honor Sophie in Song?
Recent tracks from Charli XCX, A.G. Cook, Caroline Polachek and St. Vincent capture the producer’s philosophy and humanity, but not…
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Politics
Jean-Philippe Allard, Jazz Producer and Musicians’ Advocate, Dies at 67
He called himself a “professional listener,” and he tended to develop lifelong relationships with the artists he worked with.
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World
52 Musicians, 24 Judges: Inside New York’s Subway Performance Auditions
A throng of New Yorkers stopped to gawk as a tall violinist bounced from one foot to the other, at…
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Arts
Mitsuko Uchida Says What She Thinks
The star pianist sat for a candid, occasionally tense interview in which she discussed creativity, the pandemic and why she…
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Arts
Dolly Parton Says a Musical About Her Life Is Broadway Bound
The show, expected to arrive on Broadway in 2026, will be called “Hello, I’m Dolly.”