Houston Grand Opera, known for innovation, unveils Jake Heggie’s “Intelligence,” directed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and featuring Urban Bush Women.
Category: Music
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Readers Pick the Ultimate Fall Playlist
Listen to reader-submitted songs that capture the moodiness of fall.
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Bad Bunny’s Surprising Return and 13 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Ice Spice, Sleater-Kinney, Roy Hargrove and more.
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‘Eras’ Comes to the Big Screen, a Day Ahead of Schedule
Most Swifties had bought their weekend tickets when the pop star made her announcement the movie would come out a day early, but fans still showed up for souvenirs, selfies and a chance to be first.
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How the Agushto Papa Podcast Chronicles Musica Mexicana
The Agushto Papa podcast has become the go-to media outlet for the rising stars of música Mexicana.
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In Debut, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla Gets the Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic’s renovated hall is a proving ground for guests to balance the orchestra. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla did so with assurance.
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CMAT Makes Country Music Sad, Smart and Strange
The singer combines the genre’s enduring themes of heartbreak and self-destruction with camp humor and a distinctly Irish sense of the absurd.
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Devo’s Future Came True
Half a century after Devo began singing about cultural De-Evolution, the visionary new wave band would have preferred to be wrong.
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‘Stereophonic’ Finds Drama in a ’70s Rock Recording Booth
The playwright David Adjmi explores the in-studio creation process in a play with new songs by the former Arcade Fire member Will Butler.
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Harry Smith, a Culture-Altering Shaman, at the Whitney
A solo show takes on the legacy of the painter, folk musicologist, filmmaker, obsessive collector and underground legend. It also hints at what has been lost.
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Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond? Yes, There’s a Connection.
It’s been cathartic to “create art from places of torment,” the singer-actor said ahead of the opening of “Sunset Boulevard” in London.
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Riccardo Muti Takes a Victory Lap With the Chicago Symphony
The orchestra’s former conductor — now its music director emeritus for life — opened Carnegie Hall’s season with a two-night engagement.