Stephen Paulus, Classical Composer Rich in Lyricism, Dies at 65
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Mr. Paulus’s warmly received musical output was prodigious, including 13 operas and some 400 choral works.
Hundreds assembled near Lincoln Center Plaza on Monday to protest the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “The Death of Klinghoffer,” a raw, penetrating work by John Adams.
There were fewer chanteuses onstage at this year’s New York Cabaret Convention than in the past, and a lot more male performers.
Mr. Paulus’s warmly received musical output was prodigious, including 13 operas and some 400 choral works.
Mr. Craft’s hits included “Brother Jukebox” and “Dropkick Me, Jesus.”
Juilliard415 and the Yale Schola Cantorum joined for a little-performed Mass by Jan Dismas Zelenka on Sunday.
Elliott Sharp’s “Port Bou,” a one-man opera about Walter Benjamin, looks at the philosopher as he ended his life.
In a Carnegie Hall concert, Maurizio Pollini’s programming choices showed a change in emphasis and message.
Abdullah Ibrahim, who just turned 80, performs in Carnegie Hall’s Ubuntu: Music and Arts of South Africa festival.
The Metropolitan Opera’s first performance of “The Death of Klinghoffer” was disrupted twice, but both protesters were ushered out.
Sofar Sounds artists performing in private homes are joining a global network for the annual CMJ music festival this week.
New albums from Aretha Franklin, Annie Lennox and Kiesza recall an array of musical styles, old and new.
The American Symphony Orchestra performed “Marriage Actually,” a program of Strauss works inspired by conjugal life, on Wednesday at Carnegie Hall.
The composer John Adams conducted players from Yale and the Brentano String Quartet in a program that included his “Absolute Jest,” inspired by Beethoven.
Joined by the pianist Yefim Bronfman, the Emerson String Quartet performed a program last Tuesday featuring works by Beethoven, Purcell, Britten and Schumann.
Ryoji Ikeda’s “superposition” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art used images from computer processing to suggest the beauty and the limitations of technology.
Joyce Breach, a beloved longtime fixture on New York’s cabaret circuit, is a quintessential keeper of the flame of an intimate nightclub tradition.
Now that nearly every song is as easy to find as any other, what are we music snobs to do?
When the Peoples’ Symphony Concerts began over a century ago, tickets cost just 5 cents each. Now they’re up to $14.
Kindness, Vök, the Bots, Natalie Mering, and Abigail Washburn and Béla Fleck release new music.
This is the world premiere of “Allergic to Water” by Ani DiFranco and “If There’s A Hell Below” by Black Milk.
Ben Ratliff and Jon Caramanica discuss Scott Walker and Sunn O)))’s “Soused.”
Ben Ratliff and Jon Caramanica discuss the singers Tinashe and FKA twigs, and whether they point toward a new conception of R&B.
The new Taylor Swift single, “Out of the Woods,” was released at midnight and quickly reached No. 1 on the iTunes chart.
The “Saturday Night Live” alumna in a scene from the comedy about political sex scandals.
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The Metropolitan Opera has polarized opinion with its first-ever production of John Adams’s controversial opera “The Death of Klinghoffer.” Monday’s opening night went ahead, but with protests.
The piano superstar, who has a new Mozart album out, performs the solo cadenza for the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 in G.
The soprano Anna Netrebko is Lady Macbeth in this Metropolitan Opera production of the Verdi opera.
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