The show’s creative team talks about revamping the immersive Off Broadway hit so that it moves “around the audience” at Circle in the Square Theater.
Category: Music
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For Ghana’s Only Openly Transgender Musician, ‘Every Day Is Dangerous’
Maxine Angel Opoku has found a new audience for her music with songs opposing a proposed law that would make it illegal to identify as gay, transgender or queer.
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The Philharmonic Tests Its New Home With the Classics
David Geffen Hall reopened with a month of concerts that sketched a possible future for the New York Philharmonic. Now it’s back to business.
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When Technology Makes Music More Accessible
In Britain and Ireland, a series of recent projects show the rich possibilities when disability and neurodiversity are considered in the creative process.
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Steve Reich, Busy as Ever, Enters His Late Period
At 86, this eminent composer takes a surprising but still searching direction in his music, while recent projects look back on six decades of work.
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Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty
A survey of Walter’s recorded output is fascinating for the ways in which it reveals him reinventing the traditions he was seen to represent.
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Christine Farnon, ‘Guiding Light’ of the Grammys, Dies at 97
Present at the creation, she guarded the awards’ independence and integrity but “never received the recognition she deserves,” one record producer wrote.
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Canceled Day of When We Were Young Festival Left ‘a Lot of Sad Emos’
The When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas brought emo fans from all over the world to one destination. But when weather got in the way, they mourned together.
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Review: Dimming the Lights for Sensuously Flowing Bach
The harpsichordist Jean Rondeau played the “Goldberg” Variations at Weill Recital Hall with patience and a vibrant yet subtle touch.
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Seymour Press, a Behind-the-Scenes Fixture on Broadway, Dies at 98
He started playing in Broadway orchestras in 1957, and eventually he began recruiting those orchestras as well.
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Toshi Ichiyanagi, Avant-Garde Composer and Pianist, Dies at 89
A former protégé of John Cage and once married to Yoko Ono, he was part of a lively experimental music scene in New York and became a leading composer of modern music in Japan.
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Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall
Two works by these composers have been marginalized in classical music, but they were never forgotten, as their histories show.