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Review: ‘The Righteous’ Brings Stirring Prayer to Santa Fe Opera

Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith’s new work about an ambitious minister’s rise in the 1980s is that rarity in contemporary music: an original story.

By Zachary Woolfe

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Book Review: ‘Seeing Through,’ by Ricky Ian Gordon

In “Seeing Through,” the prolific composer Ricky Ian Gordon shares the heroes, monsters, obsessions and fetishes that drive his art and fuel a dizzying life.

By Alexandra Jacobs

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For Billy Joel Fans, a New York Night to Remember

Thousands of people piled into Madison Square Garden on Thursday to hear Billy Joel glide from rock song to soulful blues in the final show of his long residency at the arena.

By Alexandra E. Petri

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Toumani Diabaté, Malian Master of the Kora, Is Dead at 58

He believed that music could transcend national borders set by colonialism and restore ancient ties, even as it embraced the changes of a globalizing society.

By Giovanni Russonello