The best-selling album turned veteran Cuban musicians into global stars and inspired a documentary almost 30 years ago. Now it’s an Off Broadway musical.
Category: Music
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‘Maestro’ Review: Leonard Bernstein’s Life of Ecstasy and Agony
As director and star, Bradley Cooper delivers an intimate portrait of the composer and his many private and public selves.
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Music Licensing Giant BMI Sells to Private Equity Firm
Broadcast Music Inc., one of the major performing rights organizations in the United States, collected $1.57 billion and distributed $1.47 billion for its 2022 fiscal year.
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Lise Davidsen Is an Opera Star Worth Traveling For
Her high notes emerging like shafts of sunlight, Davidsen is playing the title role in Janacek’s “Jenufa” at the struggling Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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Julia Perry’s ‘Stabat Mater’ Arrives at the Philharmonic
Julia Perry’s “Stabat Mater” was well received in the 1950s. But it took until this week for the New York Philharmonic to program it.
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David Del Tredici, Who Set ‘Alice’ to Music, Dies at 86
A Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who liked to redefine himself, he was originally known as an experimentalist but was later identified with a lush style that came to be called the New Romanticism.
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George Brown of Kool & the Gang Dies at 74
Mr. Brown kept time for a group that combined funk, disco, R&B and jazz to create some of the most memorable pop songs of the 1970s.
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At the Philharmonic, Violin Concertos as Alike as They Are Different
In back-to-back programs, the orchestra presented concertos by Beethoven and Benjamin Britten.
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Review: ‘Florencia’ Brings Spanish Back to the Met Opera
Starring Ailyn Pérez, Daniel Catán’s heavily perfumed “Florencia en el Amazonas,” from 1996, is the company’s first work by a Latin American composer.
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Philip Glass’s Piano Etudes: A Diary of an Influential Life
Begun to improve his own technique, piano exercises that Glass wrote over decades are the subject this month of a new book, a concert and dances.
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Park Avenue Armory Will Host ‘Illinoise’ and ‘Indra’s Net’ in 2024
The Armory’s upcoming season also includes the North American premiere of ‘Inside Light.’
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Ahead of APEC Summit, Musicians from Philadelphia Orchestra Tour China
The visit, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the orchestra’s pathbreaking 1973 visit to Beijing, drew praise from President Biden and President Xi Jinping of China.