The pioneering singer-songwriter is unveiling her first classical composition, Symphony No. 1, this month.
Category: Classical Music
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Review: With Premieres, an Orchestra Keeps Facing Forward
The American Composers Orchestra, which occupies an essential place in the New York scene, presented an evening of several new works at Zankel Hall.
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Grammy Awards 2024: Full List of Nominees
Artists, albums and songs competing for trophies at the 66th annual ceremony are being announced on Friday. The show will take place on Feb. 4 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
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Yuri Temirkanov, Conductor Who Celebrated Russia’s Music, Dies at 84
Immersed in his native land’s repertoire — Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev — he drew bold, rich sounds from the world’s major orchestras. In Russia, he was adored.
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Zdenek Macal, Conductor With an International Reach, Dies at 87
Shuttling between Europe and the United States, he conducted the world’s great orchestras. He was music director of the New Jersey Symphony for 11 years.
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The Kronos Quartet Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary
The group, which celebrated its birthday on Friday at Carnegie Hall, changed music with its open-eared and open-minded approach.
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Review: Ligeti’s Fascinating Polyrhythm at the New York Phil
The conductor Susanna Mälkki led a program centered on Ligeti’s Piano Concerto, propelled by the soloist Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
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Otto Klemperer’s Conducting Still Stuns, 50 Years After His Death
Recording collections reveal the talents of an essential 20th-century musician who lived through mental illness, Nazism and other tribulations.
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Celebrating the Music of Ligeti: ‘The Incarnation of a Free Spirit’
The pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a friend and collaborator of Ligeti, is helping the New York Philharmonic observe the centennial of his birth.
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Courtney Bryan’s Music Brings It All Together
A recent recipient of the MacArthur “genius” grant, this pianist and composer fuses different styles for a sound that is entirely her own.
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Daniel Barenboim’s Academy of Music and Middle-East Peace
Students from the Middle East come to Berlin to study music with the star conductor Daniel Barenboim. Now the Israel-Hamas war is testing their ideals.
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Back-to-Back Premieres Defy a Season of Leaner Offerings
Institutions are cutting back, but in corners of the city there is still new music to be found, like song cycles by Ted Hearne and Paul Pinto.