Music – Page 25

‘The Interview’: Lady Gaga’s Latest Experiment? Happiness.

The pop superstar reflects on her struggles with mental health, the pressures of the music industry and why she’s returned to the sound that made her famous.

By David Marchese

Alsop, Marin Capucon, Renaud Classical Music Muhly, Nico New York Philharmonic

Review: A New York Philharmonic Evening of Small Epiphanies

Marin Alsop led the orchestra in a program of works by Beethoven, Brahms and Stravinsky, as well as a new violin concerto by Nico Muhly.

By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim

Armonk (NY) Big bands Bonney, Betty Brown, Les (1928-2013) Deaths (Obituaries) DiMaggio, Joe Jazz Johnson, Judy Joltin Joe DiMaggio (Song) Kaye, Sammy Music Radio

Betty Bonney, 100, Dies; Her Song for a Yankee Star Was a Big-Band Hit

“Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio,” which she sang with the Les Brown band, celebrated DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak in 1941. She also sang on Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows.”

By Richard Sandomir

Classical Music

The Classical Music Our Critics Can’t Stop Thinking About

Watch and listen to five recent highlights, including music at a fraught moment in the Kennedy Center’s history and a passing delight in Tchaikovsky.

By Joshua Barone Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Seth Colter Walls