Music Review
Sacred Work, Written in Secret in Leningrad
By JAMES R. OESTREICH
Maximilian Steinberg’s “Passion Week” had its New York premiere on Tuesday, performed by the Clarion Choir, some 90 years after it was written in the Soviet Union.
Bard College will start a training ensemble, while the New York Philharmonic will begin an academy with partners around the world.
The Allman Brothers Band has played an engagement nearly every year since 1989 at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan — more than 230 concerts. On Tuesday it played its last.
Maximilian Steinberg’s “Passion Week” had its New York premiere on Tuesday, performed by the Clarion Choir, some 90 years after it was written in the Soviet Union.
The British singer Jessie Ware brings her understated yet powerful style to her fans at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple.
“A Distant Drum” depicted the life of the South African journalist Nathaniel Nakasa, who came to the United States on a Harvard fellowship in 1965.
Brad Paisley, Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley will perform at FarmBorough, a new country music festival coming to Randalls Island in June.
Two spiritual works of completely different dimensions come to New York this week.
Led by the longtime artist manager Irving Azoff, it is the latest challenge to the $2 billion market for performing rights dominated by Ascap and BMI.
“The Death of Klinghoffer” at the Metropolitan Opera is selling well, despite protests that greeted its opening.
The Jerusalem Quartet, along with the pianist Inon Barnatan, played the second in a three-concert Brahms series at the 92nd Street Y.
In “Breaking Character,” his nightclub act at 54 Below, the Broadway actor Jeremy Jordan shows a range that surpasses teen-idol appeal.
The English Concert chamber orchestra presented a rare performance of Handel’s “Alcina” at Carnegie Hall, with Joyce DiDonato in the title role.
The musical artist Sbtrkt (Aaron Jerome) performed songs from his albums, including the new “Wonder Where We Land,” on Sunday at Terminal 5.
Jerry Lee Lewis, Run the Jewels and Daniel Lanois are releasing new albums.
“A Great Night in Harlem,” the annual fund-raising gala concert for the Jazz Foundation of America, honored Herbie Hancock and others.
Mr. Jay was the owner and co-founder of Mandolin Brothers, a Staten Island musical instrument store well known by world-famous and ordinary musicians alike.
Mr. Craft’s hits included “Brother Jukebox” and “Dropkick Me, Jesus.”
The SpokFrevo Orquestra brought its brand of frevo, a Brazilian regional music, to Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra played its first concert of the season at Carnegie Hall, featuring works by Rossini and Beethoven.
This is the world premiere of “In The Seams” by Saint Saviour and “Blood Oranges In the Snow” by Over the Rhine.
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.
Times critics share what they’ve been listening to lately.
How to wade through the crush of culture coming your way this season? Here’s a guide to 100 events that have us especially excited, in order of appearance.
Unseen film reels of Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy are locked away in a limestone mine called Iron Mountain. Filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus want to give them a new home.
James Levine’s 2,500th performance at the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday will the 77th time he has conducted “Le Nozze di Figaro” with the company. Here are scenes from 1985, 1998 and 2014.
The pianist Frederic Chiu plays his transcription of the Troika from Prokofiev’s “Lieutenant Kije” Suite.
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