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A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia
The Night Falls is a tourist trap in Florida, a beautiful grotto turned into a roadside attraction where three sisters…
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For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks
When Charles Munch started work as the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 1949, he gave…
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Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz
We’ve done a lot of listening back. So where is jazz today? Writers and musicians including Sonny Rollins, Melanie Charles…
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California’s Leading Conductors Come Together for a New Festival
Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Rafael Payare will assemble their orchestras and more for the California Festival: A Celebration of…
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‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall
The pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is appearing at Carnegie with Dvorak’s “Poetic Tone Pictures,” a rarity being performed there for…
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Ray Cordeiro, a Voice on Hong Kong’s Airwaves for 70 Years, Dies at 98
Late-night radio listeners in Hong Kong associated Mr. Cordeiro’s sonorous voice with easy-listening standards and early rock. He worked until…
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The Hottest Song at the Club? ‘The White Lotus’ Dance Remix
Variations of the spine-tingling intro music have played at rave parties, Australian music festivals and Sundance.
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Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Fever Ray, Chloë, Cécile McLorin Salvant and others.
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Yuja Wang, Daredevil Pianist, Takes on a Musical Everest
Known for dazzling virtuosity, Wang faces a new challenge in a three-and-a-half-hour Rachmaninoff marathon at Carnegie Hall.
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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Hits from Renée Fleming’s career at the Metropolitan Opera, an unlikely Mozart and Beethoven recording and Florence Price are among…
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