Orchestras on Tour: Names Strike a False Note
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
A picture on the Web site of Columbia Artists Management on the page description for the “Tschaikowski” St. Petersburg State Orchestra.
A look at some foreign orchestras that tour the United States shows that their identities may be misleading.
CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK
At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar
By ZACHARY WOOLFE
As City Opera’s board ponders a next season, the company’s Vox festival previewed 10 mostly safe works in progress.
MUSIC REVIEW
Spending the Afternoon With a Femme Fatale
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Fabio Luisi conducted the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, accompanied by the soprano Natalie Dessay as a riveting “Lulu.”
May 16, 2011
An Online 20th-Century Playlist From the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has a new online collection of popular recorded music, monologues and more from the early decades of the 20th century.
May 16, 2011
Flannel Surfing: Pearl Jam Documentary on PBS
Cameron Crowe’s film “Pearl Jam Twenty,” chronicling the history of that influential Seattle rock band, will be shown on as part of PBS’s “American Masters” series.
May 14, 2011
Broadcast of 'Die Walküre' Performance at the Met Is Delayed
A technical problem left an estimated 175,000 people sitting in movie theaters around the world (and nearly 4,000 people at the Metropolitan Opera itself) twiddling their thumbs while waiting for the start of a live high-definition broadcast of "Die Walkure," the cycle's second installment.
MUSIC REVIEW
Feet’s Too Big? No Problem; Everyone Dances Here
By BEN RATLIFF
Jason Moran and Meshell Ndegeocello led a band through tunes with fragments of Fats Waller songs at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse in the “Fats Waller Dance Party: Small’s Paradise.”
MUSIC REVIEW
Tunes to Help Gray Skies Clear Up
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Peggy Herman delivers a brassy performance of songs by the composer Jerry Herman in her show “Herman on Herman ...With a Touch of Merman,” at the Metropolitan Room.
MUSIC REVIEW
Latino Music, From Tango Back to the 16th Century
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
At the Wall to Wall Sonidos marathons at Symphony Space, the program explored Latino culture, with performers and composers from Spain and Central and South America representing myriad styles.
Bob Flanigan, Four Freshmen Founder, Dies at 84
By MARGALIT FOX
Bob Flanigan had sung, managed and advised the singing group since its founding in 1948.
CRITICS’ CHOICE
New CDs
By JON CARAMANICA, BEN RATLIFF and NATE CHINEN
New albums by Raphael Saadiq (“Stone Rollin’ ”), Chico Mello and Nicholas Bussmann (“Telebossa”) and the Colin Vallon Trio (“Rruga”).
Eurovision Joy Deflects Cares for a While
By ELLEN BARRY
Azerbaijan’s contest victory was a welcome distraction for some from social tensions that emerged this spring.
MUSIC REVIEW
Comedian Who Raps, or Rapper?
By JON CARAMANICA
Donald Glover, of the NBC sitcom “Community,” gave a performance that was part comedy, mostly music at a sold-out Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday night.
MUSIC REVIEW
A Classical Guitarist Making Herself Heard
By ALLAN KOZINN
The guitarist Sharon Isbin’s program with the Salomé Chamber Orchestra at the Metropolitan Museum of Art included concertos and a chamber piece.
MUSIC REVIEW
Her Folksy Parlor, Crowded With Family and Friends
By JON PARELES
Family and friends of the Canadian songwriter Kate McGarrigle gathered at Town Hall for a tribute concert, fond with traces of mourning.
MUSIC REVIEW
Evolution, and a Definitive Endpoint
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
The first Spring for Music festival concluded with, of all things, the Beethoven Fifth.
Broadway Union Takes On ‘Priscilla’ Over Music
By PATRICK HEALY
Local 802 is going after “Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” hoping to undercut the use of recordings in theater.
Interactive Tonys Ballot
Fast-Tracking to Kindergarten?
By KATE ZERNIKE
Enrichment programs like Kumon are gaining from, and generating, parental anxiety about what kind of preparation children need — and whether parents themselves have what it takes to provide it.
J. Lo: The Sequel
Accessing a Place Of Shaggy Wildness
Playlist | Arctic Monkeys: Rock Star Tunes in to the Elders of the Tribe
Arts & Leisure: Brad Paisley’s Country Underground
White Rappers Paying Homage to the Past
For a Violinist, Success Means a New Low Point
Music | Connecticut: As a Festival Expands, Its Needs Do, Too
Cornell Dupree, Guitarist and Sideman to the Stars, Dies at 68
At a 10-Year Reunion, Old Songs and New Voices
Spotlight | New Brunswick: For a Gala Concert, 90 Years of Songs
Sunday Book Review: Picture Books About Folk Music
Music Review: Rap Duo Heads Back to the Stage, Granting No Compromises (or Smiles)
Music Review: A Little Offbeat Humor in Cyclical Explorations
Music Review: Exploring Themes of War, Both the Existential and the Concrete
Bernard Greenhouse, Acclaimed Cellist, Dies at 95
From Opinion
OPINIONATOR | THE SCORE
A Pitch for New Music
By DAVID LANG
Baseball fans revel in the past and the present at the same time. Why don't classical music fans do the same?
Times Talks
A Conversation with Emmylou Harris
The country folk singer-songwriter talked to Dana Jennings, a culture editor for The Times, and performed two songs in a recent Times Talks interview.
Multimedia
The Songbook, for a Song
The singers Emily Bergl and Colleen McHugh are keeping the American songbook tradition alive and affordable.
Artist, Musician, Zelig
Angus MacLise, an original member of the Velvet Underground, didn’t achieve the prominence of others in that group, but a new exhibition suggests he was an influential force in the New York underground.
Behind the Smiles
Insane Clown Posse, the hip-hop do, performed at the Gramercy Theater.
Excerpt: 'Die Walküre'
Bryn Terfel and Deborah Voigt in a scene from Robert Lepage's new production of Wagner's opera at the Metropolitan Opera. (Video courtesy of the Met.)
The Week in Music
Podcast: Music
This week: Emmylou Harris in conversation and performance; pondering the potentially odd future of Tyler the Creator, and a look at the week’s new releases
THE SCOOP
New York City iPhone App
Get a selection of the listings on your iPhone with The Scoop, The Times’s guide to what to eat, see and do in New York.
From Opinion
OPINIONATOR | THE SCORE
The Composer’s Other Voice
By DANIEL FELSENFELD
In the conversations about music, politics and culture, why not hear from the composers themselves?
Video Features
Counterpoint
Anthony Tommasini, the chief classical music critic of The New York Times, explains an important musical technique.
- More Videos by Anthony Tommasini:Bel Canto | 12-Tone Music | Musical Motifs in 'Tosca
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