Music
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Arts
‘Vile,’ ‘Deplorable,’ ‘Full of Lies’: Aleksandar Hemon Is No Fan of Philip Roth
What books are on your night stand? Ray Monk’s “Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius.” Oliver Sacks’s “Musicophilia: Tales of…
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Arts
Claire Chase Uses Her New Platform to Showcase a Hero
When the composer and performer Pauline Oliveros died in 2016, at 84, her reputation in music was secure. Her early…
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Politics
Yukihiro Takahashi, Pioneer of Electronic Pop Music, Dies at 70
A drummer and singer, he was best known as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra, one of Japan’s most successful…
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Arts
A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter.
The conductors Michael Tilson Thomas and Daniel Barenboim have continued to perform as aging and illness loom.
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Arts
At 80, the Saxophonist Billy Harper Is Still a Towering Force
He spent years playing with Art Blakey, Lee Morgan and Max Roach, earning praise for his sax’s piercing cry. He’s…
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Arts
John Cale’s Musical Journey Knows No Limits
LOS ANGELES — Just a few years after he’d left the provincial Welsh mining town where he was born, a…
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Arts
Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium
With a change of the guard imminent at the New York Philharmonic, Santtu-Matias Rouvali is the only guest conductor leading…
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Business
Movie Trailers Keep Tweaking Well-Known Songs. The Tactic Is Working.
Composers are increasingly in demand for trailerization — reworking existing tracks by artists including Kate Bush, Nirvana and Kendrick Lamar…
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Arts
Revisiting a Composer’s Psychedelic Lewis Carroll Music
Lewis Carroll’s influence is all over contemporary culture. There’s the surreal image of going “through the looking glass”; the look…
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Arts
A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth
The reputation of Vicente Lusitano, one of the earliest known composers of African descent active in Europe, was thwarted for…