Taking a Fan’s-Eye View of a Much-Loved Band
By STACEY ANDERSON
“Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets,” a documentary by Florian Habicht, looks at the band Pulp through the eyes of its fans.
Lincoln Center is essentially paying the Fisher family $15 million to drop the name so that the New York Philharmonic can lure a donor to finance a major renovation of its home.
William Kentridge’s version of “Winterreise,” featuring the baritone Matthias Goerne and the pianist Markus Hinterhäuser, received its American premiere at Alice Tully Hall.
“Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets,” a documentary by Florian Habicht, looks at the band Pulp through the eyes of its fans.
The Metropolitan Opera is asking its soloists, including some of its best-known stars, to voluntarily reduce their pay by as much as 7 percent to match the salary cuts other performers agreed to.
The quirky mix in Anne-Sophie Mutter’s recital at Carnegie Hall included Sebastian Currier’s “Ringtones” and pieces by André Previn, Beethoven and Franck.
As YouTube pushes into paid content, other online music outlets are being forced to defend or change their business models to better compensate artists.
A writer and teacher with a varied career, Mr. Meltzer led the successful fight to rescue one of New York City’s most grandiose showplaces from being turned into a discothèque.
The drummer, producer and culinary entrepreneur, will participate in formulating the programs for the food festival next year.
The decision by Ms. Swift to remove her entire catalog from Spotify has intensified a debate over royalties paid by streaming music services.
The play of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra’s string section contrasted sharply with its winds and brasses on Sunday and Monday at Avery Fisher Hall.
Big Bank Hank was one of the three members of the Sugarhill Gang, whose “Rapper’s Delight” put rap on the commercial map.
Eva-Maria Westbroek stars as a poignantly restless housewife in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Shostakovich’s earthy “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.”
In the current music-industry climate, a lane has opened for small but serious labels with low overhead and ready-made recording space.
New albums include ones by Nick Jonas and Bobby Shmurda and “Lost on the River: The Basement Tapes,” a collection based on Bob Dylan lyrics from 1967.
Spooky Black and his Minnesota-based band, thestand4rd, played their first New York club date on Sunday at S.O.B.’s.
The Rome Opera is buckling under both a traditional patronage system and attempts to reform it.
Usher’s latest tour stopped by Madison Square Garden, where he mixed beloved oldies with singles from his delayed album “UR.”
The musicians Dean Wareham, Tom Verlaine Martin Rev, Eleanor Friedberger and Bradford Cox offered accompaniment to 15 Warhol shorts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The Pacifica Quartet performed the New York premiere of a work by Shulamit Ran in a program that also included works by Mendelssohn, Puccini and Haydn.
This is the world premiere of “Natural Selection” by Art Department and “Coming Home” by Kristin Chenoweth, due out on Nov. 18 and 17, respectively.
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.
Nicole Kidman in Roberto Cavalli, Faith Hill in Naeem Khan, and more at the Country Music Awards on Wednesday night.
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.
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