Her new album, “Good Grief,” mourns friends including her Broadway co-star Gavin Creel, and her musical adaptation of the Meg Wolitzer novel “The Interestings” is about finding a different kind of fulfillment in a creative life than you’d once imagined, which Bareilles knows something about.
Category: Music
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Tippet Rise: Where Music and Art Meet Postcard Mountain Views
The New York Times – Music:Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana offers concerts in surroundings that make you feel as if you’re listening inside the land rather than around it.
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Marian Anderson’s Ambition Was Always Clear: To Be a ‘Fine Artist’
The New York Times – Music:Anderson’s importance as a barrier breaker in classical music has sometimes overshadowed the power of her artistry.
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Cassandra Wilson, Star Jazz Singer, Dies at 70
The New York Times – Music:With a low and smoky voice, she conjured the blues tradition of her native Mississippi in both her own songs and in covers.
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At 70, Yo-Yo Ma Is Modeling a Way to Be in the World Today
The New York Times – Music:With a global audience, Ma models a way of being that goes against the grain of cynicism, polarization and isolation. It’s up to us to pay attention.
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Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields: A New Feminist Music Festival Takes Shape
The New York Times – Music:At the first Daisy Chain Fields festival, the 23-year-old pop star presented a cross-generational vision of female empowerment. (With Taco Bell activations, too.)
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Sarah Davachi’s Music: A Manifesto for Listening Closely
The New York Times – Music:Sarah Davachi’s “The Will of Tongues” is a collection of music that refuses extremes and requires undivided attention.
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Olivia Rodrigo, Prince: Songs to Know This Week
The New York Times – Music:Olivia Rodrigo name-checks “The Handmaid’s Tale,” another Prince song escapes the vault and Dawn Richard brings the club to church.
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How the Foo Fighters Fill a Three-Hour Set List, Night After Night
The New York Times – Music:Dave Grohl, the frontman of the Foo Fighters, tells us how he packs 31 years into 3 hours with something for fans of every generation.
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Floating Points Makes Music for the Dance Floor, and Ballet
The New York Times – Music:Floating Points brings his niche classical music obsessions and deep love for dance clubs to his ballet score and new album “Mere Mortals.”
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A New Documentary Gives Butthole Surfers Their Due
The New York Times – Music:A new movie explores Butthole Surfers’ musical legacy, with layers of loss and regret. “It’s kind of vindicating,” the singer Gibby Haynes said.