domingo, 15 de mayo de 2011

MUSIC REVIEW


The Beastie Boys, whose new album is “Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.”
Phil Andelman
The Beastie Boys, whose new album is “Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.”
White rappers have become preservationists of past hip-hop sounds.

Accessing a Place Of Shaggy Wildness

The composer Peter Lieberson, who died last month, never let a crisis go to waste. His difficult experiences enriched his imagination, bringing him closer to the music he wanted to write.
ARTS & LEISURE

Brad Paisley’s Country Underground

In his forthcoming ninth studio album, Brad Paisley offers a more expansive definition of country music.
Eze Schupfer at Junior Kumon in Battery Park City.

Fast-Tracking to Kindergarten?

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

The new, user-friendly Jennifer Lopez is back to doing it all, only without the imperious attitude that once propelled her to fame.

For a Violinist, Success Means A New Low Point

Mari Kimuri has found notes that other violinists thought not possible.
PLAYLIST | ARCTIC MONKEYS

Rock Star Tunes in to the Elders of the Tribe

What Alex Turner, frontman of Artic Monkeys, was listening to when he wrote the album “Suck It and See.”
Cornell Dupree onstage in New York City in 1996.

Cornell Dupree, Guitarist and Sideman to the Stars, Dies at 68

Mr. Dupree played on about 2,500 session dates, by his estimate, for the likes of Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon and Ringo Starr.

At a 10-Year Reunion, Old Songs and New Voices

A decade ago, 24 children from P.S. 86 in the Bronx went on an unlikely chorus trip to Finland. The journey seemed to show that anything was possible in New York City. Was it?
SPOTLIGHT | NEW BRUNSWICK

For a Gala Concert, 90 Years of Songs

The composer Marvin Hamlisch chose songs dating from 1921 to today for the 90th anniversary gala concert of the State Theater in New Brunswick next Saturday.
MUSIC | CONNECTICUT

As a Festival Expands, Its Needs Do, Too

Comcast, in Hartford, became the setting for Bombfest’s third Memorial Day weekend when Western Connecticut State University pulled out.
Dylan playing for Guthrie in “When Bob Met Woody.”

Picture Books About Folk Music

In these two picture books, an appreciation of folk music is passed from generation to generation.
MUSIC REVIEW

A Little Offbeat Humor in Cyclical Explorations

Bruce Levingston and Colin Jacobsen joined forces at Zankel Hall in the kind of recital for which each has become known: driven by ideas and filled with music old, new and well worth hearing.
MUSIC REVIEW
Oregon Symphony, with Carlos Kalmar, at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, conducting the program “Music for a Time of War.”

Exploring Themes of War, Both the Existential and the Concrete

Carlos Kalmar brings Ives’s “Unanswered Question” (1906) to a program on war, and proposed that for the evening, Ives’s question could be “Why do we go to war?”
The Beaux Arts Trio in the early 1980s: from left, Isidore Cohen, Menahem Pressler and Bernard Greenhouse. The ensemble was known for its refinement and the continuity of its lineup.

Bernard Greenhouse, Acclaimed Cellist, Dies at 95

Mr. Greenhouse was a founder of the Beaux Arts Trio and a member for 32 years.
From Opinion
OPINIONATOR | THE SCORE
A Pitch for New Music

A Pitch for New Music

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.
‘Ariadne auf Naxos’
Photos from the production at the Metropolitan Opera.
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.)

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

The Composer’s Other Voice

In the conversations about music, politics and culture, why not hear from the composers themselves?
Video Features
Happy Birthday, Stephen Sondheim
An appreciation of some particularly ingenious passages.
Counterpoint
Anthony Tommasini, the chief classical music critic of The New York Times, explains an important musical technique.
Michael Jackson
The Passing of a Pop Icon
Michael Jackson, the legendary singer, songwriter and dancer, died on June 25, 2009.

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