Music – Page 277

Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker

In lyrics of rare humor, elegance and compassion, the man who put words to “Fiddler on the Roof” and “She Loves Me” explored the complex emotional architecture of love.

By Jesse Green

Classical Music Metropolitan Opera Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Nezet-Seguin, Yannick Opera

Review: A Composer’s ‘Lear’ Freshens a Shakespeare Evening

The Met Orchestra’s season-ending concert at Carnegie Hall featured the premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s “Heath (‘King Lear’ Sketches).”

By Zachary Woolfe

Bock, Jerry Deaths (Obituaries) Fiddler on the Roof (Play) Fiorello! (Play) Harnick, Sheldon Music Pulitzer Prizes Theater Tony Awards (Theater Awards)

Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Dies at 99

His collaborations with the composer Jerry Bock also included “Fiorello!” — which, like “Fiddler,” was a Tony winner — and “She Loves Me.”

By Robert Berkvist

Classical Music Ed Cooke Levit, Igor Music Poots, Alex Reich, Steve Shed (Manhattan, NY) Sonic Sphere Stockhausen, Karlheinz Tiravanija, Rirkrit

Sonic Sphere, a Concert Hall That Hangs Like a Disco Ball

At the Shed in Manhattan, audience members can take in live, spatially designed music inside a suspended hall called the Sonic Sphere.

By Javier C. Hernandez