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Category: Music
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Scarred by War, a Ukrainian Children’s Choir Finds Hope in Music
Members of the Shchedryk Children’s Choir have emerged from conflict determined to sing, including at Carnegie Hall this weekend.
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Playing Neil Diamond: A Dream Role, and a ‘Crazy Privilege’
Will Swenson, the star of “A Beautiful Noise,” has come a long way from his days as an eighth grader wooing girls with his Diamond repertoire.
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How Stormzy Crafted His Latest Album, ‘This Is What I Mean’
The British rapper was inspired by a variety of artists, including his sister, in making his third album.
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A Not-Quite-Star Maestro Has a Starry Season at the Met
Carlo Rizzi, a Met Opera regular sometimes taken for granted, opened the company’s season this fall and has juggled “Medea,” “Tosca” and “Don Carlo.”
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After Covid, Playing Trumpet Taught Me How to Breathe Again
The benefits of group (music) therapy.
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Louise Tobin, Jazz Vocalist Who Put Her Career on Hold, Dies at 104
She stopped performing to raise children, at the request of her first husband, the bandleader Harry James. After remarrying, she resumed singing decades later.
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Irene Cara, ‘Fame’ and ‘Flashdance’ Singer, Dies at 63
Ms. Cara was a child star from the Bronx who gained international fame as the singer of major pop anthems from movies of the 1980s.
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Review: At the Philharmonic, a Taste of Holiday Bounty
Stéphane Denève leads a program of extravagantly colorful French works, with the pianist Víkingur Ólafsson as the soloist in a Ravel concerto.
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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
A Schumann cycle conducted by Daniel Barenboim, works by Tyondai Braxton and Schubert sonatas by the pianist Paul Lewis are among the highlights.