The group, which celebrated its birthday on Friday at Carnegie Hall, changed music with its open-eared and open-minded approach.
Category: Music
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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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What the Suburbs Did for Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen
A new book by the author Jim Cullen explores the uncanny parallels between the careers of these two musicians, and how they were products of their time and place.
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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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Second Woman Accuses Steven Tyler of Sexually Assaulting Her in the 1970s
In a lawsuit, a woman says that the Aerosmith frontman groped and fondled her in a New York phone booth when she was about 17.
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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.
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Review: An Opera About Drones Brings a Pilot’s War Home
Jeanine Tesori and George Brant’s “Grounded,” which Washington National Opera premiered on Saturday, is headed to the Metropolitan Opera next year.