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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.

By Zachary Woolfe

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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.

By Garrett Schumann

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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.

By Allan Kozinn

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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.

By Sopan Deb